Past Projects
As Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow Janis A. Emmanouilidis aimed to strengthen the presence of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in the debates about the future of the European Union. This included (i) the preparation of strategy, policy and discussion papers, (ii) the establishment of new channels for disseminating ELIAMEP's research results and policy proposals, and (iii) the expansion of ELIAMEP's presence in European networks and in international media. Specific fields of interest included prosals concerning the reform of the EU's institutional power structure, the analysis of the EU Reform Treaty and the future development of the European constitutional process, the politicisation of the EU and the future of differentiation in an EU 27+.
Co-responsible for a high-level conference organized by ELIAMEP entitled The Delphic Oracle on Europe: Politics and Policies. In the course of this 6th European Seminar a group of around 40 leading academics,
practitioners, think tankers and journalists analysed and evaluated
the outcome of the 2009 European elections, and debated the
redefinition of economic governance in the EU in light of the current
global crisis, Europe’s global role in a rapidly changing international
environment, the perspectives for a “Green Europe”, and the future of
the Lisbon Treaty. The conference took place between 25-28 June
2009, in Delphi, Greece.
Between 2008-2009 Janis A. Emmanouilidis was co-founder and editor of the bulletin ELIAMEP Thesis. This series, which is published six to eight time a year covers topical issues related to EU integration, to Europe's role in global affairs and to recent developments in international affairs.
Janis A. Emmanouilidis was member of a US-European Working Group on Security and Defence jointly run by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the RAND corporation. The project
aimed to issue a policy-oriented report that identifies key issues of
common concern in transatlantic relations and make jointly agreed
recommendations on how to address these issues. The working group
met three times and consited of leading American and European experts on international,
transatlantic and European affairs. The outcome of their discussions is reflected in the report Revitalizing the Transatlantic Security Partnership written by F. Stephen Larrabee (RAND) and Julian Lindley-French
(Netherlands and United Kingdom Defense Academies). The report was
launched in Washington D.C. in February 2009 and presented in
Brussels in March 2009.The European members of the working group are
all members of the Venusberg Group, which has issued numerours reports on Europe's future foreign, security and defence policy.
Participation in the project "Think Global Act European" organized by Notre Europe and the Fondation pour L'Innovation Politique. The main objective of the project was to mobilize a group of leading European think-tanks for the purpose of formulating concrete recommendations on major issues of concern to the French, Czech and Swedish EU presidencies. The final report was published in May 2008. The findings of the report served also as a basis for discussions at the Third European Think Tank Forum, which took place in Paris on 19-20 September 2008.
Co-responsible for a conference jointly organized by ELIAMEP and the Bertelsmann Foundation on The EU and its Neighbours: In Search of New Forms of Partnership held nearby Athens between 3-6 July 2008. At this critical juncture,
the conference aimed to bring together a group of around 40 leading
thinkers and policy-makers from different European and non-European
countries to brainstorm on the perspectives for the relationship
between the EU and its eastern and southern neighbouring countries.
Between 2002-2007 responsible for two research projects related to the reform of the European Union run jointly by a group of researchers at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C·A·P) and the Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh (Germany). In the framework of these projects Janis A. Emmanouilidis published widely on the EU's overall political, institutional and constitutional development, the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, the implications of EU enlargement and the perspectives of differentiated integration in an EU 27+. He was co-author of the strategy papers prepared for the International Bertelsmann Forum 2004 and the International Bertelsmann Forum 2006 and for the Karlspreis Fora 2002-2004. During this time he was also editor of Spotlight Europe (formerly Reform Spotlight, Convention Spotlight), European correspondent of the German monthly journal Internationale Politik, chair of a working group in the framework of a project jointly conducted with the Renmin University of China, functioned as an advisor of national governments, EU institutions, European parties and NGOs on a broad range of issues related to European integration and commented on EU affairs for various German and international media.
Between 1999 and 2002 responsible for a project on "Issues and Consequences of EU Enlargement" run jointly by the C·A·P and the Bertelsmann Foundation. In the framework of this project Janis A. Emmanouilidis was academic coordinator of the international strategy group Thinking Enlarged, which worked out and published two reports on the future of the integration process from the perspective of an enlarged European Union.
Between 1995-1997 responsible for a research project conducted by the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) and dedicated to the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). His duties included the preparation of specialized research studies, active participation in the institute's advocacy of the German Foreign Ministry, the planning and organising of international seminars and conferences and the editing of the institute's CFSP publications.