Jean Monnet Centre OF Excellence ''WOrldeu''
(Formerly Fulda Centre of Transnational Governance until 2024)
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "WorldEU" (2025-2027) is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. It builds on the work of the Centre of Transnational Governance (2020-2024, funded by DAAD) and broadens the scope to critically assess Europe’s role in a changing world order. Extending the focus on transnational governance to a global perspective, WorldEU examines Europe’s position in a multipolar world, the challenges to its values, and its responses to pressing issues such as climate change, geopolitical conflicts, and democratic backsliding.
Hosted at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and directed by Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner, the Centre of Excellence "WorldEU" serves as a hub for research, teaching, and policy exchange, uniting academics, policy-makers, students, and civil society. The extension of the activies towards Europe´s role in the World reflects an expanded mission—to explore how Europe navigates geopolitical, economic, ecological, and ideological challenges on the global stage.
Work Package 2 focuses on teaching and knowledge transfer by developing new courses on the EU’s global role, organizing a lecture series, Model United Nations/Model EU trainings, excursions to Brussels, and an online course on the EU.
Work Package 3 fosters new insights on Europe’s global role through annual international workshops, regular discussions with academics and policymakers, and specialized workshops for early career researchers.
Work Package 4 ensures the broad dissemination of research findings through open-access publications, conference presentations, a dedicated website, and active engagement on social media.
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