A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016

We became a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence under the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme in 2016 and renewed this status in 2019. Our two three-year work programmes were organised in thematic strands, enabling projects led by academic colleagues from across UCL.

Programme I: 2016 - 2019

Programme II: 2019 - 2022

Challenging Europe

Students engaging with diverse European London communities through creative, ethnographic and linguistic research. Programme under the UCL Global Citizenship Summer School (Led by Eszter Tarsoly and Jelena Čalić, UCL SSEES)

Challenges to the Rule of Law

Rule of Law - Photo of columns on the facade of a building

Taking on a pressing issue facing the Union from several member states through a conference, roundtable, seminar and LLM module (Led by Piet Eeckhout and Ronan McCrea, UCL Laws and Heather Grabbe, OSEPI-ADD)

Migration

Photo of a row of empty seats on an aeroplane

Exploring practical and emotional experiences of EU migrants and their host societies through a teaching module, open-access book Invisible Poles (2019) and online resource guides (Led by Anne White, UCL SSEES)

Left-wing Populism

Asks if leftist politics can ever be popular in Europe, through a public event, academic workshop and academic volume (Led by Philippe Marlière, UCL SELCS)

LGBTQ Migration and Asylum

Examining individual lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer experiences of migration and refuge in Europe through a conference, workshops and online resource guide (Led by Richard Mole, UCL SSEES)

Perverting the Power Vertical

Exploring resistance, illiberalism, politics and aesthetics in the Global East, through a virtual seminar series and symposium, and the Birzhastation pavilion at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (Led by Michał Murawski of UCL SSEES, with Maria Mileeva and Denis Maksimov)