JEIH Journal of European Integration History

This article traces the history of ‘scientific excellence’ as an increasingly meaningful concept in the context of European scientific integration efforts. It distinguishes between three phases of how the concept was used by policy-makers as...

The article untangles the economic, political, and ideological threads that run through the actions of Pascal Lamy, one of the key actors in the European Union and later in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), faced with the phenomenon of...

In 1977, the EC launched the project of a "European Foundation" in response to the impetus of the Tindemans Report. This project, which falls within a cultural action, quickly encountered a series of obstacles related to the participation of...

The establishment of Research Infrastructures in Europe, often referred to as Big Science, has been a consistent focus of ad-hoc intergovernmental politics among member states and international partners since the latter half of the 20th century. In...

Using documents from various European archives, this article examines the development of European research policy in the European Community through the so-called Framework Programmes (FPs) in the 1980s. It is argued that during this period a mutual...

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) established in 1954 constitutes one of the first forms of European cooperation of the post-Second World War period. Historically, CERN developed outside of the institutional frame of the ECSC/EEC...