- Ability to communicate in one’s own and foreign languages using the appropriate terminology in this subject area.
- Ability to identify and utilise appropriately sources of information (bibliography, documents, websites, etc.) in all relevant areas.
- Ability to organise complex research results in a coherent form.
- Ability to work in a multicultural team.
- Ability to work on an interdisciplinary area.
- Ability to undertake field investigations and surveys using appropriately sensitive methodologies.
- Ability to reflect on one’s own values and to question concepts, ideas and theories
- Awareness of and ability to use different disciplinary methodologies in an integrated way.
- Ability to comment on or annotate documents appropriately in relation to critical issues in European Studies.
- Ability to interpret European events, developments and policies in national, regional and local frameworks.
- Awareness of the complexity of the process of wider European Co-operation.
- Awareness of and respect for points of view deriving from different European national and cultural backgrounds.
- Awareness of and respect for points of view deriving from non-European national and cultural backgrounds.
- Awareness of the relevance of European Studies in the contemporary development of Europe.
- Awareness of the debates about European citizenship and European identity.
- Knowledge of modern European history in a comparative perspective.
- Knowledge of ideas of Europe.
- Knowledge of Europe’s changing role in the world.
- Ability to define suitable research topics contributing to debates on European integration
- Awareness of the complexity of the EU enlargement and integration processes.
- Awareness of the social chapter (welfare state, employability, higher education, etc.) in the framework of the EU integration process.
- Knowledge of integration theories.
- Knowledge of the history of European integration.
- Knowledge of European Union institutions and decision-making processes.
- Knowledge of European Union policies.
- Knowledge of the national, regional and local impact of the integration process in Europe.
