Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin has been granted a Jean Monnet Chair
The Jean Monnet Chair project aims to strengthen and increase the visibility of European integration studies within the University and city of Amsterdam, and to stimulate excellence in research, teaching, and reflection on the EU more broadly.
The Jean Monnet Chair project aims to strengthen and increase the visibility of European integration studies within the University and city of Amsterdam, and to stimulate excellence in research, teaching, and reflection on the EU more broadly.
The project will advance these goals by developing MA and BA courses on European and transnational governance for Dutch and international students within the Political Science curriculum; and by organizing the following interdisciplinary research activities: a joint seminar on European governance with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; an international PhD/post-doctoral workshop on European and transnational rulemaking; an international conference on the influence of EU experimentalist regulation on national policymaking; and a lecture series on European governance for a general public audience in Amsterdam.
Both the teaching programme and the research activities develop an innovative approach focused on the emergence of new ‘experimentalist’ forms of governance within the EU, their significance for European integration and domestic policymaking, and their growing external influence on transnational governance.
Jean Monnet Chair
The Jean Monnet Project is an initiative by the European Commission to provide funding to assist in the development of specialised teaching, at university level, in European Union affairs. Assistance is provided by the creation and maintenance of professorial chairs, permanent, and short courses, and by designation of Centres of Excellence. Jean Monnet projects are selected on the basis of their academic merits and following a process of rigorous and independent peer review.