Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 2019-2022

The five ongoing project strands centre on how intensely held beliefs and new ways of doing politics increasingly challenge the status quo in Europe.

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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.

2019 - 2022

Rule of law
Left-wing populism
Power vertical
Scotland and the EU
Britain and Europe 2.0

2016 - 2019

Migration
Challenging Europe
Legitimacy
Sovereignty
LGBTQ

Current programme: 2019 - 2022

Rule of law

law

Challenges to the rule of law in Poland, Hungary, and beyond.

Left-wing populism

left wing

Can left-wing populism be popular?

Power vertical

power

Exploring illiberalism in Europe and lessons from Russia’s authoritarianism.

Scotland and the EU

Scotland

Lessons for and from Scotland, on how small states and EU regions network and influence in key EU policy areas.

Britain and Europe 2.0

Exploring the UK’s contested future relationship to Europe.

Past programme: 2016 - 2019

Migration

Our cluster around the politics and experience of migration within and to the EU.

Challenging Europe

A hands-on summer school exploring Europe's cultural and liguistic diversity through film, ethnography, and writing.

Legitimacy

This strand looked at EU legitimacy and its crises, in the context of challenges to political legitimacy overall.

Sovereignty

Our strand on appeals to national and parliamentary sovereignty, in the contexts of Brexit as well as Catalunya.

LGBTQ

This strand investigated LGBTQ Migration and Asylum in Europe, and the challenges facing migrants from this community.

Resource Guides

We commissioned three new guides: LGBTQ and TV News in Eastern Europe, and Migration from Eastern Europe to the UK.