348751 news 1416845646 1475896654 <![CDATA[Nunn School Awarded Jean Monnet Center of Excellence]]> The European Commission has awarded Georgia Tech a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. The three-year, $125,000 award was one of 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 Center will be housed in The Nunn School’s Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and directed by 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 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, 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 Center will include public talks, academic workshops, an international symposium, and a working paper series. The main research activities will be structured around three work areas focusing on:

 

]]> 2014-11-24T00:00:00-05:00 The European Commission has awarded Georgia Tech a Jean Monnet Center of
Excellence. The Center will pool expertise from across the Ivan Allen College to analyze Europe's place in a changing world with an American reference point but a broader focus.

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alasdair.young@gatech.edu

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