European institutions in Strasbourg European Studies, CEES) of the University of Strasbourg and subtitled itself "École européenne de gouvernance" (European Governance School). Another related academic institution is the Institut des hautes études européennes (IHEE), located in the Art Nouveau former Villa Knopf (built 1903–1905), close to the Parliament and the CoE. This school was founded in 1953 and was then called "Centre universitaire des hautes études européennes" (University Center for higher European Studies). The École Européenne de Strasbourg has been inaugurated by French education minister Xavier Darcos on 4 September 2008. It is the first school of its kind in France. Strasbourg also serves
The European Association of Ukrainians the creation in the European Parliament the Club Ukraine’s Friends, which was supposed to lobby for the interests of Ukraine in the European Parliament. The European Association of Ukrainians The European Association of Ukrainians (EAU) is a voluntary association of Ukrainians in the European Union with headquarters in Brussels and representatives in Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin. The association was established in 2006 as a result of a durable work of Ukrainians and representatives of Ukrainian Diasporas in Europe. The president of the association is Oleksiy Tolkachov. The initiative to establish the association belongs to Oleksiy Tolkachov and Oleksandr Kamenets, who