EU Day at the EUR 2025

Speakers (amongst others)

• Thea Hilhorst

  Dorothea Hilhorst is a professor of humanitarian studies at the International Institute for Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University in The Hague. She defines humanitarian studies as “the study of societies and vulnerable communities experiencing humanitarian crisis originating from disaster, conflict, refugee situations, and/ or political collapse. It studies the causes and impact of crisis; how people, communities and authorities respond to them, including efforts for prevention and preparedness; how humanitarian action and other external interventions are organized and affect the recovery from crises; and the institutional changes that crises and crisis response engender”. She has a special interest in the intersections of humanitarianism with development, peacebuilding and gender-relations. She currently implements an ERC advanced grant programme on humanitarian governance. She is also part of a research team studying the prevalence of transactional sex in humanitarian crisis situations. In 2022, she was awarded the Spinoza Price, the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. Email: hilhorst@iss.nl Twitter: @hilhorst_thea

  

• Eveline Crone

  Prof. Eveline Crone is professor in Developmental Neuroscience in Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology at Leiden University. Her Society, Youth and Neuroscience Connected (SYNC) lab examines the psychological and neural processes involved in self-regulation and social development from birth to adulthood, with a special focus on adolescence. Her research relies strongly on neuroscience and translational approaches, involving societal partners and youth in the full research cycle and with a direct link to youth policy. Crone is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy, and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She is the President of the International Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and past Vice-President for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Commission’s flagship program for excellent science.

  

• Joep Roet

  As deputy director at Neth-ER, Joep Roet takes care of the smooth operations of the association. He coordinates the policy work and meetings with members and ministries. He also follows the EU budget and the shaping of the next framework programme, FP10.

  Joep started at the Netherlands house for Education and Research in 2019. He has worked on many files since, including Horizon 2020/Europe, Erasmus+, the European Research Area, international cooperation, digitalisation and the Green Deal.

  Previous roles include Porter Novelli Brussels and the European Health Parliament, as well as internships at the European Commission and the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

  Joep studied international relations at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University, and geography & politics at University College Utrecht.

  

• Fatma Saçli

  Fatma Saçli is National Contact Person at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for Horizon Europe, cluster 5 Mobility. Acting in this capacity, she is a member of the Dutch national delegations at the Programme Committee of Horizon Europe, cluster 5: climate, energy, mobility; at the States’ Representatives Group of Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking and at the States Representatives’ Group of CCAM (Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility) Partnership. Fatma holds a PhD degree in public administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

  

• Thijs van den Broek

  Thijs van den Broek is assistant professor in the Socio-Medical Sciences research group at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.  He is a quantitative social scientist focusing on wellbeing, health and (informal and formal) care use, in particular of older people and migrants. He serves as Associate Editor of the diamond open access journal Demographic Research and has led projects funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC, UK). Previously, he held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for a project on the health and wellbeing of Turkish migrants in Europe.