The Eui Has An Open Vacancy for A

**The EUI has an open vacancy for a**

**Project Assistant in the**

**Florence School of Transnational Governance**

**Florence, 07 February 2025**

**Reference: V/PA/STG/1/2025**

**Who we are**

The **European University Institute** (EUI) at a glance:

- an **international organisation** set up in 1972;
- a research university focusing exclusively on **postgraduate**, **doctoral** and **post-doctoral studies**, and

advanced research;
- located in the hills overlooking the city of Florence, Italy.

The Institute also hosts the Historical Archives of the European Union.

The EUI Florence School of Transnational Governance (STG) trains tomorrow's leaders on the concepts,

methods and practices of governance beyond the state. It offers policy leader fellowships, executive training

and high-level policy dialogues. The School launched a Master’s programme in transnational governance in

2020 and a Global Executive Master in 2024.

**Employment details**

**Contract type**Part-time (10/30, 13 hours 20 minutes/week)

**Length of contract**12 months, Start Date: Negotiable

This contract may be further renewed (several times and conditional to the
availability of funds), leading to an extension of the period of service up to a total of
5 years, including the first contract period.

**Salary indication and**Grade: ASTAC1e step 1
**grade**

The basic net monthly salary after taxes is approximately 690 Euro, plus
allowances if applicable.

More information about conditions of employment is available here.**

**Place of work**To be agreed with Project Director (salary simulation based on place of work

Florence, Italy)

**About the project**

**Project Directors**Georgios Papakonstantinou and Kalypso Nikolaidis

**Project details**The Transnational Democracy Programme (TDP) is an interdisciplinary, inter
- institutional hub committed to producing action-oriented research that facilitates
policy-making across borders. The TDP contributes to democratic innovation
studies and maps how participatory, liquid, digital and deliberative democracy
processes can bolster democratic cultures.

**Job description**The Project Assistant will provide organisational and logistic support to the Directors
of the project. Main tasks include:

- Conducting research and coordinating with the research team on

delivering a review of challenges to democracy and facilitators of
resilience;
- Taxonomising the latest best practices in democratic innovations through

literature review and interviews;
- Editing a report on innovative spaces and views on emerging trends in

democracy innovations;
- Contributing to the preparation of future scenarios co-creation

methodology._ _

**Qualifications and experience**

**Qualifications and Essential**:
**Experience**
- BSc (or equivalent according to EHEA) in Social Sciences or Humanities;
- Proven experience in collaborating with deliberative democracy scholars
and/or practitioners at a pan-European level;
- Demonstrated analytical and practical knowledge in the fields of democracy

and democratic backsliding, democratic innovations, transnational and
futures studies, evidenced by published outputs.
**Desirable**:

- MA (or equivalent according to EHEA) in Social Sciences or Humanities;
- At least two years of proven experience in post-graduate research and/or

relevant policy work;
- Proven knowledge of key stakeholders in the democratic innovations field,

also for the purpose of conducting qualitative interviews.
**Languages**Excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written (CEFR level: C1 or
above). Knowledge of other languages constitutes an advantage.

**How to apply**

**Data Protection**

required by its Data Protection Policy (President’s Decision No. 10/2019 of 18 February 2019 regarding Data

Protection at the EUI).

**Equal opportunities**

The European University Institute applies a policy of equal opportunities, which, in accordance with Article 1d of

its Staff Regulations, prohibits discrimination on any grounds such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin,

genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority,

be deemed also to constitute a reference to a person of the female sex.