The European Institute started its third consecutive Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant in October 2023. Find out about our current (and past) work programmes on this page.
A Centre of Excellence since 2016
Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects, funded under the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme.
We were first awarded this status in 2016, and then again in 2019 and 2023. Organised in thematic strands, our programmes have enabled projects led by academic colleagues from across UCL.
- 2023 - 2026
- Security
- Energy
- Identity
- Diversity
- 2019 - 2023
- Rule of Law
- European Parliament Buildings
- Power Vertical
- Scotland and the EU
- Britain and Europe 2.0
- European Literary Map of London
- 2016 - 2019
- Migration
- Challenging Europe
- Legitimacy
- Sovereignty
- LGBTQ
Current programme: 2023-2026
Embedded in our core business activities and framed by an impact and dissemination strategy, the programme is structured around four thematic Work Packages. Each addresses a topical policy field for today’s EU.
Here we pair UCL’s foremost expert on Russian politics, Dr Ben Noble, with the UK’s leading think tank on Europe, the Centre for European Reform, to deliver analysis and knowledge exchange on Russia’s war on Ukraine and the future of Europe’s security architecture, developing events and resources for UK and European policy communities.We are partnering with UCL’s Institute of Sustainable Resources to co-deliver the stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange dimension of a two-year, part externally-funded research programme, designed to inform policy on UK-EU electricity trading and the economics of industrial decarbonisation.We are building new research clusters comprising UCL academics from 12 departments to interrogate the presumption of whiteness in the study of Europe, and to develop an online European Literary Map of London. The map is designed with EU National Institutes of Culture as a teaching, research and public engagement tool.Together with Dr Oliver Gerstenberg, we will convene a high-level workshop with senior academics and judges to shape scholarly and juridical discourse around Europe’s constitutional identity, exploring the potential for an edited volume on this topic.
Read about our previous work programmes here
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