UCD Professor Roland Erne has been awarded a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair award in the field of European Integration, Employment Relations and Just Transition. The award recognises Professor Erne’s outstanding academic profile and the long lasting impact of the proposed project.
A Jean Monnet Chair is an academic funding award given by the European Commission to university professors with a high level of specialisation in EU studies. Awards are made via a competitive selection process and are held for a period of three years during which time the awardee undertakes activities designed to strengthen teaching and research on EU studies.
The Jean Monnet programme - which sits within the wider Erasmus+ funding programme - aims to foster a deeper understanding of the EU and strengthen dialogue between academia and policy makers on European integration.
As Jean Monnet Chair, Professor Erne will explore major challenges including economic crisis, technological and climate change, and the related shifts in EU governance. He will also investigate the countervailing labour protests triggered by these challenges and examine their social impact, building on a recently completed European Research Council Project “Labour Politics’ and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime” ((opens in a new window)https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu/) at the Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Each Jean Monnet Chair award secures a €60,000 lump sum funding award for the institution. The award will also strengthen the curriculum of the UCD Quinn and Smurfit Business School programmes by supporting international partnerships with Cornell University and European Masters in Labour Studies consortium. The funding boost will also secure field trips for UCD students taking modules on European Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management and Work and Employment in the Global Economy to EU institutions and social partners in Brussels, and to the tripartite EU agency Eurfound in Dublin.
Planned outreach activities as part of the three-year project will raise public awareness of EU governance and its workings across multiple aspects of employment relations, which will further enhance UCD’s reputation as a leading global centre of scholarship in the field of European integration and employment relations.
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- A Jean Monnet Chair is a prestigious, competitively awarded university teaching position funded by the European Commission to promote teaching and research on (opens in a new window)European integration. Named after Jean Monnet, a French diplomat and key architect of the EU, the Chair supports a professor in developing curricula, conducting research, and engaging in outreach activities related to the EU, fostering dialogue between academia and society, and informing policymaking.
- The Jean Monnet Chair awards are funded by the European Commission under the broader Erasmus+ programme.
- Find out more about Jean Monnet funding awards in the Erasmus programme guide (opens in a new window)https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2
- At UCD, pre-award support for Jean Monnet Chair Awards is provided by UCD Global. If you have an idea for an educational development project and would like to discuss funding opportunities, email (opens in a new window)globalprojects@ucd.ie.