A website devoted to the European studies

To finish this this blog, I would like to present the website of the the CVCE (Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance de l'Europe), an interdisciplinary research centre which fosters and popularises studies and publication on the European integration process. This centre was created in August 2002 and has his headquarters in a the medieval Sanem castle, in Luxembourg. Clearly europeanist, its motto is: "Knowing the past to build the future."

The CVCE has a department entirely devoted to the "European Integration Studies". Its researches focus on four main fields:

• the European organisations;
• the European states and the European integration;
• the European figures;
• The ideas, the values and the identities

The historical, political, juridical and economical aspects of europeanism are studied.

The superb Sanem castle, in Luxembourg, where the CVCE has his headquarters.

The centre also contributes to the "oral history" of europeanism, by giving the floor to the actors of the European integration, like Jacques Delors, Hubert Védrine or Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

Very well designed, the website of the CVCE is as complete as interesting. Furthermore, it fully participates in the development of «digital humanities», a new field which analyses the impact of computer science on the research methods in social science. Besides, within the CVCE, a digital humanities lab aims to stock up and to keep the numeric data relating to the history of europeanism. Its role is precious for the historians who work on this subject.

The website: http://www.cvce.eu/