The movement and exchange of academic staff between Europaeum member institutions, and beyond, supports the development of broader intellectual perspectives as well as promoting the exchange of ideas and providing an opportunity for new collaborative projects to be formulated and discussed. The Europaeum therefore supports academic mobility programmes.

Europaeum universities can apply for a Europaeum Visiting Chair, to be filled by a distinguished scholar from another partner institution. Typically, EVPs offer a seminar, lecture and/or supervise research students; they may also pursue personal research, work with collaborators, or plan collaboration opportunities.

The visiting professors appointed recently with support through this scheme have been:

• Professor Christopher Browning, a world-renowned historian of the Holocaust, is the 2007 Bertelsmann Europaeum Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History. He gave 4 lectures, and held one seminar during the Trinity Term 2007 at Oxford University. Please see the Bertelsmann Lecture Programme for further details.

  For a brief note on this series, please see the 2008 Europaeum Review.

• Professor Bernard Michel, Professor of the History of Central Europe and Director of the Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université de Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne, for a two week research and teaching visit to Charles University, Prague in April 2002.

• Dr. Catherine Redgwell, specialist in environmental law from St. Peter's College, Oxford, lectured for two weeks at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva in June 2002.

• Professor Robert Frank, Professor of Institut Pierre Renouvin, Université Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne taught at the Oxford Modern European History Research Centre in November 2002 and February 2003.

• Professor Michael Wolter, Professor of Evangelical Theology, Universität Bonn, visited the Theology Faculty at Oxford to research and lecture for two weeks in Summer 2003.

• Professor Hubert Kempf, Université de Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne, visited Charles University, Prague in 2003 to continue teaching and research links between Economists at Prague, Paris and Bologna.

• Professor Tiziano Bonazzi of Bologna visited Oxford (also as part of the Europaeum’s US-Europe Project) (April / May 2003).

• Professor Herman Phillipe of Leiden University visited Oxford University in the summer of 2002 and 2003, to teach and research.

• Professor Paolo Masano of Bologna University visited Paris I later in 2003 to teach and prepare linked research in Economics.

• Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, All Souls College, Oxford, taught at HEI Geneva, in the Winter Semester 2004.

• Dr Godfrey Hodgson of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, visited Leiden University in May 2004 (also as part of the US-Europe Project).

• Professor John Barton of Oxford University visited Bonn University to give a lecture, and continue joint research collaboration,dating back 20 years between the two universities.

• Professor Robert Evans of Oxford visited Leiden University in early 2005 to give lectures, run seminars and pursue talks over joint MA.

• Professor Michael Freeden of Oxford visited Bologna in 2005 to teach.

• Professor David Robertson of Oxford visited Krakow for a lecture in 2005.

• Professor Iain McLean of Oxford visited Prague in 2005 to deliver a lecture.

• Professor Annie Cot from Paris I visited Charles University, Prague, to lecture and teach in April 2006.

• Professor Piotr Mikuli from the Jagiellonian University visited the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford to conduct research and pursue academic links in academic year 2006-7.

Typically, Europaeum Visiting Professors pursue personal research; work with collaborators, discussing future collaboration opportunities in teaching or research; offer a seminar, give a series of lectures; or teach and supervise research students. For details of how to apply, please consult the project Guidelines.