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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 19, 2014
The European Commission has awarded Georgia Tech a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. The three-year, €100,000 ($125,000) award was one of only 14 awarded world-wide in 2014. The Centre will pool expertise from across the Ivan Allen College, as well as from the Scheller College of Business, to analyze Europe's place in a changing world with an American reference point, but a broader focus. Named after one of the founding fathers of European integration, the Jean Monnet program aims to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies and to foster the dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers. The Centre will be housed in the Nunn School’s Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and directed by Dr. Alasdair Young.
"The Award of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence is a clear recognition by the European Commission of the expertise of our faculty in the Sam Nunn School and at Georgia Tech more broadly to address the key issues confronting the European Union. It provides a platform for us to explore the important policy issues of transatlantic trade, and European integration and security. This recognition and the resources it will provide further Georgia Tech's strategic objective to understand and assist in global policy issues." – Joe Bankoff, Chair, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
The activities of the Centre will include public talks, academic workshops, an international symposium and a working paper series. The main research activities will be structured around three work packages focusing on:
In addition, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and in conjunction with the Peace Laureates World Summit in Atlanta in November 2015, the Centre will host an international symposium on the EU as Peacemaker and Peacekeeper. The Centre will also support the re-launch of the Certificate in European Affairs.
Other participating faculty include: Vicki Birchfield (Nunn School); Mikulas Fabry (NunnSchool); Jarrod Hayes (Nunn School); Dina Khapaeva (Modern Languages); Nikolay Koposov (History, Technology and Society); John Krige (History, Technology and Society); John McIntyre (Scheller); Peter Swire (Scheller); and Katja Weber (Nunn School).
For more information, contact Alasdair Young (Alasdair.young@gatech.edu) or visit the Centre’s website.
