 The European University Institute (EUI) was founded in 1972 by the Member States of the European Community.The EUI finds its origins in the advocacy for a European institute at the 1948 Hague Conference and the European Cultural Conference the following year.At the 1955 Messina Conference, when the members of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) gathered to assess that organisation's progress, the German Secretary of State Walter Hallstein called for the establishment of a training centre for nuclear sciences.