The EUI is a unique world-class center for research and postgraduate teaching in the social sciences, located in Florence, Italy. It was born out of an atmosphere of cooperation, with considerable advocacy for a European institute at the Hague Conference in 1948 and the European Cultural Conference the next year. Furthermore, the School of Transnational Governance (STG) as one of EUI’s schools delivers teaching, research, and high-level training in the methods, knowledge, skills, and practice of governance beyond the state.