§ Sir Richard BodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the(a) cost and (b) criteria are for selection of Jean Monnet projects in the United Kingdom; which chairs and professorships are 676W funded in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. [12505]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe EC programme, "Jean Monnet: European Integration in University Studies", was established in 1989 on the initiative of the European Parliament. It is implemented by the European Commission without direct involvement on the part of EU member states.
The Commission does not publish details of funding allocations to member states under this programme. The 1997 programme vademecum published by the European Commission lists the following criteria for selection:
The proposed project must deal specifically and entirely with the issue of European integration.All teaching activities carried out within the framework of a Jean Monnet Chair must fulfil this requirement.It must be an entirely new initiative, set up for the first time at the beginning of the 1997–98 academic year.Priority will be given to compulsory courses of study (this applies to the "Jean Monnet Chairs" and permanent courses) and to those reaching a wide audience.The proposed project should be clearly inserted into the university's teaching programme and correspond to the academic criteria of quality and feasibility.Priority will be given this year to the creation of new Jean Monnet Chairs and to the development of complementary initiatives which, in the framework of the 1990–92 Jean Monnet Chairs, will lead to the setting up of European centres of excellence.Selection will be made according to the applications submitted (all applications submitted will be taken into consideration) on the basis of the recommendations of the European University Council for the Jean Monnet Project.A list of Jean Monnet projects from 1990–97 published by the European Commission includes the following Jean Monnet Chairs in UK universities:
University of Aberdeen
- European integration studies
Robert Gordon University
- European public policy
University of Wales Aberystwyth
- European integration
University of Bath
- Politics of the EC
- European political union
- European integration and international business
Queen's University Belfast
- European social policy
- History of European integration
University of Birmingham
- European economics
- Constitution and administrative law of the EC
- Political economy of European integration
University of Bradford
- European integration studies
University of Sussex
- European studies
- The economics of European integration
- Contemporary European studies
University of Bristol
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- European Community studies
University of Cambridge
- European studies
- European Community law
University of Kent at Canterbury
- Politics of European integration
University of Wales—College of Cardiff
- Political economics with special reference to the European Community
- The politics of European economic integration
University of Essex
- European politics
- European economic integration
- European Union law
- European political integration
University of Ulster
- European law (2 Chairs)
Coventry University
- European studies
University of Warwick
- Law and politics of European integration
University of Dundee
- European energy, environmental and economic law
University of Durham
- European Community law
University of Edinburgh
- European Community law
- Economics
- European law
University of Glasgow
- European politics
University of Strathclyde
- European law
- European public policy
- Economics of European integration
University of Hull
- European integration
- EC social law
Kingston University
- European law
Lancaster University
- European Union law
University of Leeds
- European Parliamentary studies
- European Union studies
- European law and integration
- European integration and international business management
Leeds Metropolitan University
- European Community legal studies
University of Leicester
- European Community law
- European economics studies
- European integration
De Montfort University
- European economy
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
- European economic integration
University of Liverpool
- European Union law
London School of Economics and Political Science
- European Community politics
- Economics of the EC
Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
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- History of contemporary Europe
South Bank University
- The history and theory of European integration
Thames Valley University
- Community studies
University College London
- European economics and integration
University of Greenwich
- Political economy of European integration
University of North London
- European integration studies
University of Westminster
- European integration studies
Loughborough University of Technology
- European politics (2 Chairs)
University of Manchester
- Politics of the new Europe
- Economics of European integration
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- European community law and policy
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- The law and policy of the European Community
University of East Anglia
- European integration
University of Nottingham
- European law
University of Oxford
- European institutions and politics
University of Paisley
- European integration and public policy
University of Glamorgan
- European Community law
University of Portsmouth
- European Community studies
University of Reading
- The international dimension of European integration
University of Salford
- History, politics and culture of the EC
University of Sheffield
- Political science
University of Southampton
- European integration
- Economics
University of St Andrews
- European integration studies
University of York
- European economics