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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Programme 2019-23

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This was our second three-year Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant under the EU’s Erasmus+ programme.

The proposed programme’s overall theme centred on how intensely held beliefs and new ways of doing politics increasingly challenge the status quo at EU level, in EU member-states, and in the United Kingdom. Five project strands, led by academics from across UCL, focused on specific manifestations of such passionate politics. 

Read about all of our Centre of Excellence Programmes here

Passionate Politics and the Future of Europe (2019-23)

Rule of Law

Palais de Justice, Brussels, Photo by Chad Greiter on Unsplash

Taking on a pressing issue facing the Union from several member states through a conference, roundtable, seminar and LLM module (Led by Oliver Gerstenberg, UCL Laws ; Heather Grabbe, OSEPI-ADD; Claudia Sternberg, UCL EI)

Parliament Buildings

Hungarian Parliament Building from across the Danube, দেবর্ষি রায়, CC BY-SA 2, via Wikimedia Commons

An edited book, two two-day international conferences and a research film drawing on ethnographic interviews with UK and German parliamentarians (Led by Sophia Psarra, Bartlett, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg)

Power Vertical

Crystal pyramid, Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash

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)

Scotland, Small States and the EU

Wind turbines off Balmedie Beach, Aberdeen. By Jamie McLennan on Unsplash

Policy-focused events, papers, and blogs in collaboration with the Scottish Centre on European Relations (Led by SCER Director Kirsty Hughes)

Britain and Europe 2.0

Brexit Graffitis Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Continuation of all our work—events, podcasts, videos, the UCL Europe Blog—on the UK’s relationship with Europe (Led by Uta Staiger, Claudia Sternberg, Lucy Shackleton)

European Literary Map of London

Portrait of Karl Marx, John Jabez Edwin Mayal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Interactive, online map explore London through the eyes of Europe’s writers, artists and intellectuals, through the ages (Led by Uta Staiger, Tim Beasley-Murray and Lucy Shackleton)

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Featured image credits:  ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ stickers at Notting Hill Carnival, London. Photo by Dele Oluwayomi on Unsplash; Palais de Justice, Brussels, Photo by Chad Greiter on Unsplash; Hungarian Parliament Building from across the Danube, দেবর্ষি রায়, CC BY-SA 2, via Wikimedia Commons; Crystal pyramid, Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash; Wind turbines off Balmedie Beach, Aberdeen. By Jamie McLennan on Unsplash; Brexit Graffitis Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash; Portrait of Karl Marx, John Jabez Edwin Mayal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.