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Seventh ASEF University, Barcelona, Spain, November 2002

Thirty-five (35) students from 32 universities in 23 ASEM partner countries participated at the 7th ASEF University (AU7) in Barcelona. The programme was organised in collaboration with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Fundació CIDOB and Casa Asia. In recognition of the important developments that are taking place towards greater regionalism and regional integration in both Asia and Europe, the theme of the Seventh ASEF University was "Regionalism in Asia and Europe and Significance for Asia-Europe Relations".

The academic programme was organised around three modules designed to provide students with a better understanding of: (a) Key Issues in Regionalism; (b) Trends towards Regionalism in Asia and Europe; and (c) Implications of Recent Regional Developments for Asia-Europe Relations. The speaker for the AU7 Public Lecture was Dr Joan Colom, Vice-President of the European Parliament, who gave his take on the issue of EU Enlargement in the wake of a recent vote by the EU Parliament approving the enlargement of the EU to include the 10 accession states by 2004.

As an integral component of the AU7 programme students visited the most important cultural attractions available in both the city and the province of Catalunya. Major highlights included visits to buildings designed by Antonio Gaudi commemorating 2002 as the Year of Gaudi, the medieval city of Girona, the Dali Theatre-Museum, the Romanesque monasteries and the Roman archeological ruins at Tarragona.

The lectures comprised of:

• Professor Richard Higgott, Director, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  "Towards a Conceptual Understanding of Regionalism: a Jistorical Perspective”
• Professor Zaki Laïdi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, France
  "Neo-Regionalism – a Response to Globalisation”
• Professor Amitav Acharya, Deputy Director and Head of Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technologies University, Singapore
  “The Social Construction of Regions: Insights from Southeast Asia”
• Professor Joongi Kim, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Law Graduate School of International Studies (GISS), Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  “Sub-Regionalism, Regionalism, Trans-Regionalism: Implications for Economic Integration and International Trade Policies”
• Snr Narcis Serra, President, Fundació Centre d’Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona (CIDOB), Spain
  “Trends in Regionalism and Implications fro Peace and Security”
• Dr Albrecht Rothacher, Director for Public Affairs, Asia-Europe Foundation
  “Developments in Europe: The Future of European Convention : Enlargement Issues and Institutional Reforms”
• Ms Mercè Corretja i Torrens, Deputy Director, Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  “Towards a Europe of Regions: Catalonia and the Basque Country”
• Professor Simon Tay, Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Singapore
  “Developments in Asia: The ASEAN+1 and the ASEAN+3 Processes, the Competing Visions of Regionalism Offered by China and Japan”
• Professor Robert Ash, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom
  “The Emergence of Regional Economies Within China and Their Implications, With Special Reference to Hong Kong and GuangDong”
• Mr John Lawrence Avila, Director, Institute of Political Economy, University of Asia and the Pacific, Manila, the Philippines
  “EU Enlargement and the Rise of Asian FTAS: Implcations for Asia-Europe Relations”
• Professor Fukunari Kimura, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
  “The Challenges of Institution Building in Asia and Its Implications for Asia-Europe Relations”
• Dr Christopher Dent, Director, Institute for Pacific Area Studies (IPAS), University of Hull, United Kingdom
  “From Inter-Regionalism to Trans-Regioinalism: Future Challenges for ASEM?”
• Mr Zainal Arif Mantaha, Director for People-to-People Exchange, Asia Europe Foundation; Mr Laurent Frideres, Co-ordinator, ASEF University Programme, Asia-Europe Foundation
  “Forging Asia-Europe Relations: The Role of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)”