25 August 2020

Summing up the results of the competitive selection of the Erasmus Plus Jean Monnet program of the European Commission, a project aimed at the implementation of the interdisciplinary educational module “Jean Monnet Module in European Interdisciplinary” at the Lobachevsky University received financial support. The head of the international project is Aleksey Anatolyevich Gromyko, President of the Association of European Studies, Head of the Department of History and Theory of International Relations at IMOMI UNN, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The aim of the Jean Monnet project is to promote knowledge about the European Union; improving teaching methods and the quality of education on European integration issues; development of scientific activities in the field of European studies; training specialists in various disciplines of social sciences (political science, international relations, sociology, history, law, etc.) related to European studies.

The project "Jean Monnet Module in European Interdisciplinary" involves the implementation of an interdisciplinary course in European studies at Lobachevsky University by an interfaculty team of specialists for a wide range of students, consisting of 5 mutually complementary courses:

Socio-economic transformations in the post-Soviet space;
History of the European Union;
EU policy and governance;
European construction;
EU Neighborhood Policy.

During the implementation of the three-year project, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of AEVIS will hold several events on topical problems of European studies, which will be attended by leading Russian and foreign experts.

The implementation of the project is a logical continuation of the IMCEERES (Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies) international magistracy project at the Faculty of Social Sciences of UNN, which is being implemented by a consortium of leading European universities led by the University of Glasgow (Great Britain), universities - members of the consortium.

Head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of AES M. Rykhtik

Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences of UNN R. Golubin