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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Programme 2016-19

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Jean Monnet
We became a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence under the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme in 2016. This was our first of now three three-year work programmes. Like the others, it was organised in thematic strands, enabling projects led by academic colleagues from across UCL.

 

Read about all of our Centre of Excellence Programmes here 


The EU's Present Discontents (2016-19)

Challenging Europe

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)

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)

LGBTQ Migration and Asylum

A rainbow Refugees Welcome sign

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)

Sovereignty

A map of Europe

Challenging discourses of national and parliamentary sovereignty through a conference and two webpages collating research, academic commentary, videos, policy engagement and resources on Brexit (Led by Uta Staiger, UCL European Institute)

Legitimacy

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Bringing together normative ideas and the empirical study of what makes people accept authority as legitimate or not, through an international workshop, monograph and scholarly articles (Led by Claudia Sternberg, UCL European Institute)

Resource Guides

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