Prishtina Institute for Political Studies (PIPS), GAP Institute and Group for Legal and Political Studies on 3 August held a press conference on the topic "Monitoring report of European Reform Agenda (ERA) for the period of January-June 2018". The findings from the monitoring of the remaining obligations which are foreseen to be finalized in 2018 were presented in this press conference.

On 1st of August, Prishtina Institute for Political Studies published the report "A Critical Overview of the Organization and Implementation of Kosovo’s Foreign Policy". The report particularly discusses the functioning of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while at a larger scale it focuses on Kosovo’s foreign policy as a whole. 

On 3rd of July Prishtina Institute for Political Studies organized the discussion Kosovo’s approach towards five EU non-recognizers. The panel of the discussion consisted of: Enver HOXHAJ (Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo), Ilir DEDA (Member of Parliament), Gëzim VISOKA (Lecturer at Dublin University).

On 27 June 2018, the Prishtina Institute for Political Studies held the thematic discussion on "Policies for Energy Efficiency in Kosovo: The Parliament's role and institutional' willingness to apply the obligations for EE". This discussion gathered MPs, representatives of institutions, representatives from academia, embassies, civil society etc.

During 22-24th of June, School of Politics held the third seminar ''Foreign Policy and National Security''. The lecturers of this seminar originated from political, diplomatic and academic backgrounds: Robert Muharremi, Blerim Reka, Ardian Hackaj (Cooperation and Development Institute), Burim Ramadani (Deputyminister at MKSF) and Florian Qehaja (Executive Director at Kosovar Centre for Security Studies). 

Prishtina Institute for Political Studies, as an implementing partner, together with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; as part of the project "Regional cooperation and competence development of parliamentarians in South East Europe on the topic of energy efficiency and climate protection" held a study trip to Berlin, Germany (6-9 June) with the purpose of introducing the MPs of six Western Balkan countries with the best parliamentary practices within the German Parliament in advocating for the implementation and improvement of energy efficiency, climate protection and urban mobility policy.