Jacques Delors Institute

The Jacques Delors Institute (French: Institut Jacques Delors), which also uses the name Notre Europe (French for "Our Europe"), is an independent think tank based in Paris.^[1][2] Founded in 1996 by Jacques Delors, it aims to "think a united Europe." Enrico Letta currently serves as president of the Jacques Delors Institute, while Sylvie Matelly is its director.

Jacques Delors Institute

Founder	Jacques Delors
Type	Think Tank
Location	Paris, 18 rue de Londres, France
President	Enrico Letta (since 2016)
Director	Sylvie Matelly
Website	institutdelors.eu/en

The Institute was ranked 22nd among the 'Top Think Tanks in Western Europe' in the 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Report of the University of Pennsylvania, making it in third place among think tanks based in France.^[3]

In co-operation with the Hertie School of Governance it has operated a branch in Berlin since 2014,^[4] the Jacques Delors Institut Berlin. In 2019, The Jacques Delors Institute Berlin merged with the Hertie School, forming the new Jacques Delors Centre.^[5] Henrik Enderlein, the former president of the Hertie School, also served as the director of the Jacques Delors Centre. ^[6] The current director of the Berlin branch is Johannes Lindner.

Since 2017, the Jacques Delors Institute also has an Office in Brussels, which became autonomous in January 2020 under the name Europe Jacques Delors, led by Geneviève Pons.

Research

The Jacques Delors Institute research is focused around four axes:

• "Visions of Europe" (European identity; European institutional reform)
• "European democracy in action" (transnational deliberative democracy; European think tanks)
• "Competition, cooperation, solidarity" (the CAP post-2013; the European budget; a European energy policy)
• "Europe and world governance" (comparative regional integration)

The Institute regularly produces publications, infographics, and freely accessible webinars. Its publications are essentially produced in-house, but outside researchers and academics are also called on. Work is published in French and English, and occasionally German.

Notable debate contributions by Notre Europe include the organisation of Europe's first transnational deliberative poll, Tomorrow's Europe; a study on the poisonous budget rebate debate; an analysis of the 2005 rejection of the European constitutional treaty; an examination of European think tanks; a blueprint for a new "European social contract"; and a proposal to politicise European debate by linking the choice of European Commission president to European Parliament elections.

For the period 2019-2022, the Jacques Delors Institute participated among 15 consortium partners in the Horizon 2020 research project EU IDEA (Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability).^[7] Inside the project, it coordinates the Work Package 4, dealing with the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and the Single Market.^[8]

Activities

The activities of the Institute primarily revolve around the following themes:

• Democracy and citizenship
• Law and institutions.
• Europe in the world.
• Economy and finance.
• Energy and climate.
• Enlargement of the European Union.
• Social Europe.

Académie Notre Europe

The Académie Notre Europe is a training facility affiliated with the Jacques Delors Institute. Its purpose is to provide free training and guidance to a selected group of young people in the field of European issues. Founded in 2017, it welcomes a new class of approximately 100 members from all European Union countries to Paris every year. The working language is French, and the training is entirely free.

Governance

The Jacques Delors Institute has been successively presided by Jacques Delors (1996-2004), Pascal Lamy (2004–05), Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (2006-2010), António Vitorino (2011-2016)^[9] and Enrico Letta. (2016–present).^[10]

The institute's main bodies are the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors. The Members of the Board of Trustees include Jacques Delors, Martine Aubry, Gerhard Cromme, Etienne Davignon, Philippe Lagayette, Pascal Lamy, and António Vitorino.^[11]

It is a member of the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN)^[12] and frequently works in partnership with other organisations.

Financing

In 2018, the annual budget of the Jacques Delors Institute stood at 1.39 Million Euros. The biggest individual contributors to the Institute's budget were the European Commission and the French government, making up roughly 50 percent of revenues. Other partners include the companies Macif, Engie, Solvay, Enedis and the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Over the period 2016-2018, project-related contributions to the Institute's budget came, among others, from the European Parliament, the Region Île-de-France, the Caisse des dépôts, France Stratégie the European Climate Foundation and several governments of EU member states.^[13]

References

1. Campbell & Pedersen, John L. & Ove K. (2014). The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark. Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0691161167.
2. Stone & Ullrich, Diane & Heidi (2013). "Policy research institutes and think tanks in Western Europe: Development trends and perspectives" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2020.
3. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=think_tanks ^{[bare URL PDF]}
4. https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1910-EN-Offre-de-stage-bureau-de-Bruxelles-1.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
5. "All about our new Jacques Delors Centre".
6. "Prof. Dr. Henrik Enderlein (1974-2021)".
7. "The consortium".
8. "Work package 4: Economic and Monetary Union and the single market".
9. "António Vitorino". 10 March 1994.
10. https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/rapport-annuel-2016.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
11. "Notre organisation et nos financements".
12. "Members".
13. https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rapport-annuel-2018-FR.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links

• Official website   (in English and French)
• Jacques Delors Centre Berlin (in German)
• Tomorrow's Europe, the first Europe-wide Deliberative Poll