Staff
Patronage
LMU Munich, Head of C.A.P.
The Center for Applied Policy Research (C.A.P.) at LMU Munich was founded in 1995 in order to bring together the privately funded, practice-oriented research work attached to the professorship held by Prof. Werner Weidenfeld. Today, the Center is the largest university policy research institute on European and international questions in Germany.
Academic Instructor, MISU European Programme
Michael Bauer
Research Fellow, C.A.P.; LMU
Michael Bauer is a Senior Researcher in the Research Group on European Affairs and heads the project on Europe and the Middle East at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C•A•P). His research focus is on European foreign policy and international security and political, social and economic transformation processes in Arab countries. He is the academic coordinator of the European Studies Programs of the Munich International Summer University, visiting lecturer at the MAEUS-program of the Chulalongkorn University, as well as member of the Steering Committee of the EU-funded al-Jisr project on Public Diplomacy and of the Euro-Mediterranean Studies Commission (EuroMeSCo).
Michael Bauer holds a MA in political science and a postgraduate degree in educational science. He studied in Munich and Aberystwyth (UK).
Research Group
The research group on European Affairs focuses its work on strategies for the future of the European Union. The group also concentrates on the current process of European integration and on specific regions and countries like the Black Sea, the Middle East or the United States and Russia. Especially important and characteristic for the group is the combination of research on both institutional processes and developments in policies like energy or research and development, justice and home affairs, foreign policy or transatlantic relations. Furthermore, the Research Group is in charge of two standard works on European Integration (Yearbook on European Integration and "Europe from A-Z").