The Module

The Jean Monnet Module “EUDEMUS” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is anchored at the UNC Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) and offers three new, interdisciplinary courses in European Union Studies and three Model European Union Simulations on UNC’s campus.

EUDEMUS’ three courses, each taught by a different faculty member with a comparative approach, look at how the EU and the US approach societal concerns surrounding diversity, the environment, and the media.

Grant Activities

EUDEMUS aims to foster dialogue amongst faculty and students at the undergraduate, Master, PhD, and professional school tracks, on how the EU and US are addressing critical issues. By creating these courses and offering Model EU Simulations, we will be creating future transatlantic experts on EU-US issues. By generating these new courses and research on EU issues including AI, data protection, sustainable climate policy, race, gender, and (dis)ability, in disciplines across campus that traditionally do not teach about the EU, we will promote an understanding of the EU’s approaches, which can be very different from those in the US, amongst students who do not normally come into contact with the EU.

Extra activities outside of the classroom, such as expert lectures by EU Delegation to the US representatives, film screenings, practitioner panels, on issues of diversity, environment, and media, will be organized by Profs Layne, Ekstrand, and Kittner and will all be open to the public to foster dialogue amongst an even wider audience. See more on our Events page.

Themes

EUDEMUS focuses on issues around, diversity, environment, media, democratic values, and respect for human dignity, equality, and human rights. Informing students about these issues within the EU and about how the EU has responded to threats to democratic freedoms, inequality, populism, and security, will provide students a thorough understanding of successful government approaches to these global challenges.

Funding

This Center is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.