Centre Director wins prestigious award from the European Commissions Jean Monnet Programme

3 July 2009

Professor Pascaline Winand, Director of the Monash European and EU Centre (MEEUC) at Monash University, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and International Relations

This is only the third Jean Monnet Chair in Australasia with the other two having been awarded earlier to Melbourne University and the University of Canterbury in New     Zealand. The award provides Professor Winand and the Centre with the opportunity to further develop its teaching and research programmes in this area.

Jean Monnet programme aims at stimulating teaching, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies in higher education institutions within and outside the European Community. Launched in 1990, the programme is now present in 60 countries throughout the world and around 700 universities offer Jean Monnet courses as part of their curricula.

Between 1990 and 2007, the Jean Monnet Action has helped to set up approximately 2,900 projects in the field of European integration studies, including 124 Jean Monnet European Centres of Excellence, 761 Chairs and 1,982 permanent courses and European modules.

Read more from the media release on the website of the Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand in Canberra.