On April 24th, former Member of the Governing Board of ISIS Europe and SIPRI's former Director, Professor Bates Gill, received the Royal Order of the Polar Star from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, for his distinguished service during his five years as SIPRI Director.

On April 29th, Myrto Hatzigeorgopoulos, Programme and Office Manager at ISIS Europe, and Jorge Eduardo Delgado, PhD candidate at the War Studies Department of King's College in London, presented their research paper 'Strategically partnering with power: Brazil, South Africa, and prospects for EU security and defence' at the The EU and Emerging Powers conference.

The Research papers of the project "Expansion of EU-Korea relations and policy advice in the fields of crisis managment and stability – EUSK COOP", funded by the European Commission, are now available here or on eusk-coop.eu