Jean Monnet programme

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The Jean Monnet programme is an European Union educational project, part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013, and continuing the programme from earlier year periods.[1]

It has the purpose of stimulating teaching and research on European integration in higher education institutions, in Europe and elsewhere in the world. It includes the specific programmes of creation of Jean Monnet Chairs and Centres of Excellence, the development of Modules, information and research activities; support for academic associations of professors and researchers in European integration; the support of a small number of specific European institutions, and the holdings of Conferences, and meeting between academics and policy-makers.

The programme is named after Jean Monnet, the French diplomat instrumental in establishing the European Union.

Jean Monnet chairs

Since 1989, there have been established 875 Jean Monnet chairs in universities across the world.

Specific institutional support

The institutions supported are the College of Europe (with campuses in Bruges, Belgium and Natolin, Poland, the European University Institute, the European Institute of Public Administration, the Academy of European Law, the International Centre for European Training, and the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education.

Jean Monnet Conferences

These conferences have been held since 2002.[2] They have been:

  • "Intercultural dialogue" (Brussels, 20–21 March 2002)
  • "Gender Equality" (Brussels, 4 March 2003)
  • "Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures" (Brussels, 24–25 May 2004)
  • "The European Union and Emerging World Orders " (Brussels, 30 November - 1 December 2004)
  • "Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures: Artists and Cultural Actors" (Brussels, 25–26 February 2005)
  • "Europe's challenges in a globalised world" (Brussels, 23–24 November 2006)
  • "The Reform Treaty and the European Union's Future" (Brussels, 20–21 September 2007)
  • "The European Union and World Sustainable Development" (Brussels, 5–6 November 2007)
  • "The European Union and the Balkans" (Zagreb, 23–24 June 2008)
  • "A Europe of achievements in a changing world" (Brussels, 24–25 November 2008)
  • "Twenty Years of Support for European Integration Studies: From the Jean Monnet Action to the Jean Monnet Programme" (Brussels, 7–8 September 2009)
  • "The Role of Education and Training in the New European Economy" (Madrid, 25–26 January 2010)
  • "The European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon" (Brussels, 25–26 May 2010)
  • "The Jean Monnet Programme and the Eastern Partnership" (Kiev, 25–26 October 2010)
  • The Eastern Partnership and the Europe 2020" (Brussels, 8–9 December 2010)
  • "Evolutions in the Southern Mediterranean: Implications for the European Union" (Brussels, 30–31 May 2011)
  • European economic governance in an international context (Brussels, 24–25 November 2011), with 450 participants.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Jean Monnet Programme: understanding European integration"
  2. ↑ Jena Monnet Conferences
  3. ↑
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