This summer Johan Östling will be a Simone Veil Fellow at the research institute Project House Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munch. During his time in the Bavarian capital, he will be preparing his new project on the Europeanisation of universities since the 1980s and the emergence of the knowledge society.

His fellowship is named after Simone Veil (1927–2017), a French Holocaust survivor, politician, member of the Académie française and the first female President of the European Parliament.