The UAB has been selected as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Global Policies (EUGLOB), part of the Erasmus+ programme. The programme has also selected the module Feminist Cultures in Europe: History, Values, and Social Transformation (FemE).
The UAB has been selected as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Global Policies (EUGLOB), part of the Erasmus+ programme. Led by Department of Political Science and Public Law Professor Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín, the project has an initial duration of three renewable years and will receive 100,000 euros in funding. Another project has also been selected within the same Jean Monnet programme, entitled Feminist Cultures in Europe: History, Values, and Social Transformation (FemE), led by Department of English and German Studies Professor Carme Font, with a funding of 35,000 euros for the next three years.
Centre of Excellence in European Global Policies (EUGLOB)
In today's increasingly disruptive times and unpredictable world, it is crucial for EU leadership to identify and even anticipate global policy challenges and shape their regulation in accordance with EU core values of liberal democracy, solidarity, equality and sustainability. The EUGLOB project aims to be a central hub of knowledge on the EU's unique role as an agenda-setter and policy shaper of transnational problems regulation. The focus of this work is on new and crucial areas of policy formulation in which the EU is playing or is expected to play a decisive role both within and beyond its borders: data protection, artificial intelligence, environmental sustainability, one welfare, global health and gender equality.
The approach of the project is comprehensive, interdisciplinary and rooted in the firm belief in the outreach of the Jean Monnet epistemic community. Its goal is to develop teaching and research on the EU, while also transferring knowledge to students, political elites, media and civil society about the EU's central role as a provider of public policies with global impact. The work will combine the perspectives of political science, international relations, law, geography and economics in all three dimensions (teaching, research and knowledge transfer) of the activities. This project aims to contribute to the structural consolidation of the work developed by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Policies (EUPOL) since 2018 (Jean Monnet Chair Calls 2018 and 2021) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Feminist Cultures in Europe: History, Values, and Social Transformation (FemE)
At a time when feminism is being challenged by political forces that are reluctant to comply with equality plans and women's rights, the need to understand the long-standing tradition and values of feminism in Europe becomes particularly important. The FemE project provides a comprehensive overview of the intellectual genesis and historical development of feminist thought in Europe, its expression in European legislation and policy, and its agency in the advancement of gender equality and social values in Europe. Motivated by the cutting-edge research of the ERC project WINK (Women's Invisible Ink) into the neglected production of women writers in early modern Europe and its critical inroads into contemporary discourses on gender identities, FemE provides a unique insight into the evolving cultures of feminism from Europe's early past to the present, and the ways in which its values can be extrapolated beyond European culture with an integrative and non-hegemonic view.
