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UCL European Institute

Research on Europe at UCL

UCL's has an outstanding breadth of research expertise on Europe and the European Union across its faculties and departments.

Consistently ranked among the world's top universities, the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rated UCL as the best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the number of its submissions which were considered of ‘world-leading quality’. Some of the key schools involved in the research on Europe and the European Union, such as UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the School of Public Policy or the Faculty of Laws, are recognised as among the leading centres for research and teaching in their field world-wide.

Recent research grants

Examples of some of the recently awarded Research Grants give an insight into the breadth and scope of UCL's expertise in the field of European Studies broadly conceived. As of October 2009, 289 EC-funded projects existed at UCL which are either currently running or ended in 2009. Of these, 56 focus explicitly on Europe as a subject. Some examples and further projects funded by UK research councils are listed in this section.

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Over 250 academic UCL staff are engaged in research and scholarship on European and EU related subjects across faculties, disciplines and methodologies: from economics and political science to law; from language, culture and history to health; from climate change and the history of science to the built environment. 

Much of this research is carried out in cooperation with other European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) – as of September 2010, over 2800 such research collaborations with over 330 HEIs, public organisations and commercial enterprises from 34 European countries have been established under the current European Framework Programmes FP7 and the previous FP 6 alone. 

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UCL is also dedicated to enhancing the academic, public and policy impact of its scholarship. UCL’s research strategy has identified four ‘Grand Challenges’ to address complex contemporary problems by bringing together different kinds of expertise and methodologies. The European Institute forms a part of this investment.

UCL is among others a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, and the League of European Research Universities.