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Citation
(2000), "New Jean Monnet professorships created", Education + Training, Vol. 42 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2000.00442hab.014
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2000, MCB UP Limited
New Jean Monnet professorships created
Keywords Universities, Awards
The European Commission has chosen 117 university projects to receive money under the Jean Monnet initiative, which provides support for teaching European affairs. The projects will lead to the creation of 47 new Jean Monnet university professorships and 47 new university modules dealing with European affairs. The programme, which has existed for ten years, will have created 538 Jean Monnet professorships, dedicated to teaching EU law, economics, politics and the history of European integration. An EU spokesman commented: "This is a way of contributing to the dissemination of knowledge and leading public debate on European integration".
Almost 700 universities are now involved. The Jean Monnet initiative annually affects 250,000 young people in the 15 EU countries, plus Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner, said: "All 280 university projects submitted for 2000 were of excellent quality and confirmed the determination of European universities to make a commitment to passing on to the younger generation the message that European construction is not complete, but is in constant movement."
Of the 117 projects selected, 23 are in Spain, 20 in Italy, 17 in the UK, 15 in France, eight in Germany, seven in Greece, six in Belgium, five each in The Netherlands, Finland and Sweden, four in Portugal and one each in Ireland and Denmark.
The EU will contribute a total of 900,000 euros a year over three years. The universities involved have undertaken to continue the financing for at least another four years.