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Projects and collaborations at our partner universities

The members of the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee in Europe and the World engage in a wide array of projects spanning multiple disciplines, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity. Each university contributes through its own local and international research and educational initiatives while also actively participating in Una Europa-wide collaborations. These collective efforts strengthen both academic exchange and institutional cooperation across the network.

Research initiatives

This multi-disciplinary research centre within the University of Edinburgh is devoted to the study of the governance, institutions, law and policies of the European Union, and of Europe more broadly.

EU Research and Education Network on Europe in the World.

Pan-European consortium spanning 13 academic institutions and think tanks across the EU, the UK, and Turkey.

New futures-focused space for learning, research, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh – officially opened 2024.

One of the world's premier Institutes for Advanced Study, supporting innovative research and public engagement activities across the arts, humanities and social sciences through a range of interdisciplinary and international projects and programmes.

This research centre sits outside the walls of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and aims to develop innovative, multidisciplinary research (in Law, Political science, Economics, Archeology, History, Geography, Philosophy) in line with the themes promoted by Una Europa, bringing together researchers from Université Paris 1 and other European universities.

France-wide research network on Europe.

This Horizon Europe-funded research consortium studies global governance transformation and the EU's role therein.

Reconceptualising European Power in an Era of Turmoil: contestation, relevance, sustainability (RENPET) is a Jean Monnet Network studying EU foreign policy.

This Jean Monnet Centre for EU External Action in a World in Transition (EU ExAct) is dedicated to exploring and understanding the evolving landscape of EU external action.

Interdisciplinary platform on European expertise at Universiteit Leiden.

This project brings together 18 higher education institutions from across Europe (7) and Africa (13) with the shared goal of advancing informed discussions on EU-Africa relations. The project focuses on promoting innovative research and educational materials regarding various critical themes, including: Trade and Development, Culture and Identity, Peace and Security, Migration and Demographics, Digital and Environmental Transitions.

If citizens lack trust in international cooperation, it can have wide-ranging implications: it risks undermining cross-border efforts to tackle global challenges, for example humanitarian crises, health inequalities and the climate emergency. This project addresses this urgent contemporary problem from a historical perspective, tracing popular engagement with bodies that sought to regulate or resolve global matters, from the aftermath of the First World War to the early 2000s.

This project studies how civil wars shaped European history between 1914 and 1949.

This project studies the entanglements of population, environment, and capital in the shaping of Russian Eurasia.

Interdisciplinary research centre.

ERC-funded research project exploring integration through rights in European society.

ERC-funded project that explores how law was transmitted and reproduced by scholars rather than by a centralised authority in medieval Europe, by studying the late medieval Irish legal ‘Digests’.

Interdepartmental Centre for European Union Studies.
Since 2014 to the present: "The European Union in World Politics: What Power? What Leadership? A multidisciplinary Approach”. This project aims at showing how and why the European Union has come to assume the status of a global power, and to what extent this status affects the international context.
Professor Giuliana Laschi was awarded an ad personam chair in 2012 from the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture, Lifelong Learning Programme, Jean Monnet Action.

Unimed is a university network for intercultural dialogue and international cooperation, composed of 172 universities and research centres across 25 countries.

The EuroStorie Centre of Excellence critically investigates the foundations of the European narrative about a shared heritage of law, values and ideals. Its purpose is to examine crises through the development of conflicting narratives of Europe in 20th-Century thinking and its impact in contemporary policies and popular perceptions. The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives is funded by the Research Council of Finland and is hosted by Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet.
CCINDLE is a Horizon Europe-funded comparative research project exploring how citizens, activists and policymakers might re-invigorate engagement with democratic institutions by co-creating solutions to the crisis of democracy in Europe.

VORTEX is an EU Doctoral Networks project which focuses on advancing research on radicalisation. The project has three key areas: the internal dynamics of radical groups and individuals; the social context of the radicalisation processes; and measures of preventing and countering violent extremism. The project is led by Malmö University.

SHAPEDEM-EU sets out to rethink, reshape, and review the EU’s democracy support policies in its Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods. Amidst the increasing contestation of the EU and the weakening impact of its policies in the neighbourhoods, SHAPEDEM-EU applies an entirely novel approach to democracy support, rooted in the conception of democracy support as a social practice requiring the collective democratic learning of all stakeholders involved.

IDEoPOP explores how populism intersects with both domestic and international politics and how it impacts international politics. Under the guidance of some of the leading scholars in this area, a new generation of doctoral candidates will be trained in the study of the international dimensions and effects of populism.

The Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a research institution with the aim to support original research in broadly understood social sciences and the humanities. The Centre was established in 2019 as part of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, thanks to the generous donation received from Mr Tad Taube and Taube Family Foundation (Taube Philanthropies), with the aim to offer support to post-doctoral researchers.

Education initiatives

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