G-Lab-2b – Articles and Perspectives

For decades, Europe has been building deep interdependence among its states. The challenge now is to turn it into stronger cooperation, grounded in trust, shared responsibility and a vision of the future that also encompasses our relationship with those beyond its borders. Nearly 25 years ago, on 1 January 2002, euro banknotes and coins first entered circulation. The banknotes featured…

On 16 September 2026, during the State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her intention to “open the doors for Canada to become the EU’s first associate member” at a time of growing tensions with the United States. This announcement has attracted considerable attention, given the absence of provisions for such…

Original article published in The Conversation on September 15, 2026: When we work as a team, cooperation unfolds across two dimensions. Some are instrumental: sharing information, distributing tasks, exploring alternatives, detecting errors and meeting deadlines. Others are relational: trusting, building a shared vision, allowing ourselves to be affected by others without losing our capacity to act, and accepting that they…

Original article published, 1st of September,  in The Conversation, an international science communication journal.  “This year, hardly any of my friends are in my class.” It is the kind of sentence parents may hear on the first day of school, before anything about teachers, timetables or subjects. When schools reshuffle classes, the change can create discomfort or resistance, especially when…

Original feature article published on July 31, 2026, in CTXT magazine. “Are you with Frontex?” It was one of the first questions I was asked after landing on the island. At the time, it surprised me; only later did I begin to understand why someone might mistake me for one of its officers. The explanation came from Agostino, an ambitious…

Published on 13 July 2026 in Núvol magazine. At the beginning of the year, during an expedition through West Africa, I visited a secondary school in Bissorã, Guinea-Bissau. Its director, Djoncon Camara, welcomed me with an impressively calm presence. He had worked with Mother Teresa in the 1990s and spoke of education as something that is not only conceived in…

A historical and interdisciplinary reading of contemporary selfishness.

Article written by Ipinoluwa Oluwafowokanmi  “Peace education is not abstract, it is transformational.”  I realized this fact the day we went to a school for our Non-violence Education Campaign. A group of teenagers in the classroom in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria responded to the peace education campaign not with jesting or uninterested attitudes, but with reflection on past behaviours. The…

“Borders, I've never seen them, but I've heard they exist in some people's minds.” This phrase appears around a photograph of my 6-year-old daughter Alba, with her hands open, standing in front of the remains of the Berlin Wall, hanging in my office. It is a simple image, taken on a magical night in Berlin, but one that is full…

Many voices rightly insist on the importance of teaching people to distinguish between reliable sources, recognize the falsity of certain news items, and understand how the media works. And yes, all of that is important. But it is also insufficient. The reality is that, in an environment saturated with misinformation, conspiracy theories, and digitized opinion bubbles, this response seems sensible.…