EmergEU: Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Professor Andrea Ott successfully applied for a a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Crises and Emergencies in EU Integration (EmergEU) in July 2024. In the upcoming three years, the centre will explore crises and emergencies in EU integration.
Research, guest lectures and teaching activities will be embedded within the existing interdisciplinary Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). This allows researchers from Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) together with the network under CERIM to explore the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective and together with researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies (FASoS).
Professor Ott explains why she and her colleagues from FASoS at CERIM (Dr. Giselle Bosse) choose this specific topic: “The EU is increasingly faced with crises and emergencies that have threatened its core. This requires extraordinary responses that significantly affect the EU’s institutional structures and policymaking. Think of the rule of law, COVID-19, energy, environment, and the military conflict in Ukraine.”
EmergEU deals with three main themes:
- Conceptualisation of crises and emergencies.
- Case studies on crisis management and emergency action from an internal dimension of EU policies.
- Case studies on crisis management and emergency action with a focus on the external dimension of EU policies.
What is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence?
All Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence are focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming to develop synergies between the various disciplines and resources in the European studies.
They are key players in reaching out to students from faculties that normally don’t engage with with European Union issues, but also to policymakers, the civil society, and the broader public. There’s also opportunities for experts to create joint transnational activities.
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