The Jean Monnet Actions aim at promoting excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies worldwide. These Actions also aim at fostering the dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers, in particular with the aim of enhancing governance of EU policies. European Union studies comprise the study of Europe in its entirety with particular emphasis on the European integration process in both its internal and external aspects. The discipline also covers the role of the EU in a globalised world and in promoting an active European citizenship and dialogue between people and cultures.
The core subject areas are the following:
• EU and Comparative Regionalism Studies;
• EU Communication and Information Studies;
• EU Economic Studies;
• EU Historical Studies;
• EU Intercultural Dialogue Studies;
• EU Interdisciplinary Studies;
• EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies;
• EU Legal Studies;
• EU Political and Administrative Studies.
Jean Monnet Activities support the following Actions:
1. Jean Monnet Modules (teaching and research)
2. Jean Monnet Chairs (teaching and research)
3. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence (teaching and research)
4. Jean Monnet Networks (policy debate with the academic world)
A Jean Monnet Module is a short teaching programme (or course) in the field of European Union studies at a higher education institution. Each Module has a minimum duration of 40 teaching hours per academic year. Teaching hours are taken toinclude direct contact hours in the context of group lectures, seminars, tutorials and may include any of the aforementioned in a distance learning format but do not include individual instruction. Modules may concentrate on one particular discipline in European studies or be multidisciplinary in approach and therefore call upon the academic input of several professors and experts.
Jean Monnet module with participation of the Universitat de València is:
The New European Law on Family and Successions
Responsible professor: Rosa Lapiedra Alcamí
A Jean Monnet Chair is a teaching post with a specialisation in European Union studies for university professors. A Jean Monnet Chair must be hold by only one professor, who must provide the minimum of 90 teaching hours per academic year.Teaching hours are taken to include direct contact hours in the context of group lectures, seminars, tutorials and may include any of the aforementioned in a distance learning format but do not include individual instruction and/or supervision. If the higher education institution has established a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the Jean Monnet Chair must assume the academic responsibility of the Centre.
Jean Monet Chairs with participation of the Universitat de València is:
EU Tax Law and Policy: in search for coherence and specialization -TAXPOL
Responsible professor: Alfredo García Prats
A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is a focal point of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. The academic responsibility of a Centre must be assumed by a Jean Monnet Chair holder. A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence gathers the expertise and competences of high-level experts (including Jean Monnet Chairs and/or Jean Monnet Module coordinators) and aims at developing synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies, as well as at creating joint transnational activities and structural links with academic institutions in other countries. It also ensures openness to civil society. Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence have a major role in reaching out to students from faculties not normally dealing with European Union issues as well as to policy makers, civil servants, organised civil society and the general public at large.
Jean Monnet Networks foster the creation and development of consortia of international players (HEIs, Centres of Excellence, departments, teams, individual experts, etc.) in the area of European Union studies. They contribute to gathering information, exchanging practices, building knowledge and promoting the European integration process across the world. This Action can also support the enhancement of existing networks supporting specific activities, notably fostering the participation of young researchers in EU-related themes. These projects will be based on unilateral proposals, focused on activities that cannot be achieved successfully at a national level and require the involvement of a minimum of five partner institutions (including the applicant institution) from five different countries. Their aim is to undertake projects that have a multinational rather than a national dimension.
More information: Erasmus+ Jean Monnet
