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Prof. Jarle Trondal will talk about Europa i krise – Hvilke konsekvenser for europeisk samarbeid? [Europe in Crisis – What Consequences for European Cooperation?] For more information, see here.

Launched by the Central European University (CEU) , the non-degree programme “Invisible University for Ukraine” (IUFU) brings together junior and senior undergraduate (B.A) and graduate (M.A and Ph.D) students from Ukraine, whose studies were affected by the war. Members of UiA’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence offer teaching support to the initiative’s module “Ukraine and/in Europe”, which is co-led by Maryna Rabinovych. In particular, Stefan Gänzle and Maryna Rabinovych will teach on Ukraine’s differentiated European integration amid the war; Anne Pintsch will co-lead the session on Central and Eastern European countries’ enlargement experience and its applicability to the Ukrainian case, and Romulo Pinheiro will speak about the European higher education space and the prospects for Ukraine to join it.

We have launched 6 EU –kort fortalt (briefly explained) online video-materials providing pupils in mainly high schools (Ungdomsskole and Videregående) with background information about the EU. The videos are in Norwegian only, and last from 3- 6 minutes each.

You can find the videos under the publications.

The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union has been published! It is co-edited by Jean Monnet Group Members Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal and contains chapters by various researchers of the Jean Monnet Centre.

There will be a book launch in Brussel 15th og September. For more information, please visit this page

The EU Ambassador to Norway, HE Nicolas de La Grandville, will visit the Jean Monnet Centre on 21.06.2022. His speech on “EU and Norway: Navigating together in a Turbulent Time” will be followed by a panel discussion bringing together distinguished guests from Kristiansand municipality, local business and the University of Agder. For more information, please contact us.

Welcome to the Jean Monnet Centre’s first podcast session! Prof. Jarle Trondal (UiA) and Dr Tarvo Kungla from the European External Action Service discuss on “Norway and the European Union”. You can listen to them here.

The Jean Monnet Centre invites doctoral students and post-docs to a co-organised information session on applications for EU project funding. The session will be part of the Career Day at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Eligible staff have been contacted by the organisers.

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is glad to resume the film evenings for UiA students. Erik Mustad and Frans af Malmborg will introduce the film “Brexit – The Uncivil War” and discuss it, and Brexit more broadly, with the audience after the screening. More information is available here.

Due to the current challenges with the high number of Covid-19 infections, the submission deadline for abstracts for the Interdisciplinary Trans-Nordic Conference on European Differentiated Integration has been extended to 25 February. Please find the updated Call for Papers here.

The Jean Monnet Centre invites paper proposals (abstracts) for its conference that will take place in Kristiansand, 1-2 June 2022! Please see here for the full call. The submission deadline is 31 January 2022. We are looking forward to hearing from you.