Nouvelle Europe

Nouvelle Europe is a Paris-based[1] organization founded in 2003 by Philippe Perchoc, a researcher at the European Parliament[2] and lecturer at College of Europe[3] and Université catholique de Louvain,[4] and by Thomas Kurkdjian, a French civil servant.

Nouvelle Europe organizes regular conferences, debates and so-called s(t)imulation seminars with school classes to simulate the European Parliament or the Council of the European Union. Their events – which mostly take place in Paris, but also in cities such as Istanbul,[5] Kaliningrad[6] or Dnipro[7][8] – cover topics related to the EU and its neighbourhood, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (such as the Visegrád Group), since Nouvelle Europe was born out of the motivation to foster greater understanding of the countries covered by the 2004 enlargement of the European Union.

The name Nouvelle Europe, which is French for 'New Europe', refers to this geographical region of Central and Eastern Europe, and is a term coined by Czech statesman and philosopher Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.[9][10]

Many of Nouvelle Europe's events are co-sponsored by the European Parliament, Sorbonne University, Sciences Po,[11] Arte,[12] Radio France Internationale[13] and other institutions.