EU Grants Received
Dr. Raffaela Puggioni awarded the Jean Monnet Chair - 2023
Dr. Raffaela Puggioni, Associate Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, has been awarded the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission for the project entitled “EUropean Borders: Security, Solidarity, Responsibility”.
The three-year project (Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2026), under the acronym of RADAR, has received a grant of € 50,000. The project aims to investigate and capture the security, political and ethical dimensions of European Union (EU) border management. This will be done by investigating and questioning not just how borders are managed and made secure but also what role, if any, solidarity, humanitarianism, and responsibility play in border management. The project will specifically focus on the following questions: What does it mean to protect EU borders? How does, and should, the EU deal with unauthorised border-crossers? Who are the (post-colonial) ‘border-crossers’ against whom the EU is erecting physical, legal, and social barriers? Does the EU have any political, legal and ethical, responsibility for the border deaths along its maritime borders?
The RADAR project will be implemented through teaching, researching, and outreach activities, which will all stimulate high-profile debates, academic engagement, and cross-cultural exchange inside and outside of academia. This will be done together with the help of the following team members: Dr. Christine Moliner (JSIA), Dr. Oleksandr Svitych (JSIA), Dr. Rajeev Kadambi (JSIA); and Professor Vesselin Popovski (JGLS).
In terms of teaching activities, during the three-year project, the Chair will be teaching the following six courses: 1) EU History and Politics; 2) The Politics and Practices of EU Migration; 3) EUropean Borders: the Legal, the Political and the Ethical; 4) EUropean Borders: Solidarity, Activism, and Citizenship; 5) EU Border Security; and 6) Mobility, Borders, and Citizenship in (a Post-colonial) Europe. The team members will contribute to the RADAR project by offering some hours of teaching on selected topics, for instance: social aspect of mobility; populism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; democracy, nationalism, and ethics; state and citizens; colonialism and its forms of knowledge; cross-border governance, responsibility to protect; the European Convention and at the Law of the Sea. A variety of events — including discussions, workshops and outreach activities — will be organised by the team members through the following research centres: Centre for European Studies, Centre for Migration and Mobility Studies, and the Centre for Political Economy and Philosophy.
Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo awarded a Research Project EU-Values Network - 2023
The EU-VALUES Network (EU Research and Education Network on Foreign policy issues: Values and Democracy) brings together 21 outstanding higher education institutions from Europe and the world to enhance the debate and improve knowledge of values and democracy in the EU´s foreign policy. This wide, interdisciplinary and diverse coalition of academic experts from six continents was built by selecting scholarly excellence and inclusiveness criteria such as gender equality or geographic diversity, which will contribute to the debate with fresh non-European views, also from the gender perspective. Our EU-VALUES network has identified the need of strengthening the external legitimacy of the EU as a force for good in times of contestation. The general objectives are generating and distributing novel knowledge on the nexus of EU foreign policy and the promotion of democracy and EU values, and contributing to the primary objective of the Erasmus+ programme of supporting the educational, professional, and personal development of people in Europe and beyond through lifelong learning. These objectives will be reached by relying on an innovative network structure based on 7 work packages, which are intertwined and mutually reinforcing. Led by professional network management and coordination, the network will collect, discuss & evaluate, and disseminate cutting-edge research on key developments in different policy areas in 4 thematic work packages. We will examine EU values such as democracy and the rule of law, human rights and human dignity, and freedom and their impact on EU policies such as security, development, trade, climate, and sustainable development goals. We will collect the academic output following a triple-layered collection process based on the idea of a “network of networks”. The collected “state of the art” material will be discussed and evaluated within a close network cooperation based on peer review, expert surveys, reflection papers, and two-day network conferences in the countries selected, following their importance for the diffusion of EU values such as Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia or Chile. The project’s work plan includes a high-quality website with a regularly updated blog, an electronic newsletter with cutting-edge research and didactic results, databases, interactive tools, webinars and video series. It will also strengthen transversal educational training with a MOOC and a textbook.
EURASIA: Strengthening Ties Between Universities in Europe and Asia - 2018
EURASIA project is part of Erasmus+ – Key Action 2 – “Capacity building in the field of higher education”, an important element in support of the strategic priorities of the EU Global Strategy 2016. It aims to strengthen the academic ties between higher-educational institutions (HEIs) in the “programme” countries (Bulgaria, Poland, France, Italy and UK) and four Universities in the two 2 “partner countries” (China and India). The project addresses the challenges of establishing, updating and modernizing curricula in European studies in a globalized world. EURASIA is an opportunity for capacity building of all the partner institutions based on shared ideas, the exchange of educational know-how and the development of resources, so empowering all stakeholders. The project activities involve the joint elaboration of original modules and courses on European studies, the development of appropriate methodologies and the creation of teaching and learning resources, including online material. The O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is one of the two partner institutions from India in the EURASIA project (European Studies Revitalised Across Asian Universities).
Under this project, 10 courses in “European Studies” were developed by the JGU faculty member from Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global Business School, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities and Jindal School of Journalism and Communication. The faculty members have received training under EURASIA project and mentored by the senior faculty members from the “programme” countries (Bulgaria, Poland, France, Italy and UK).
GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice - 2015
JGU was selected as one of eight global partner institutions for the ‘Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice’ (GLOBUS) project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020, the world’s largest research programme. The University’s Centre for European Studies represented JGU on the project which critically assessed the EU’s impact on global justice. Involving researchers across institutions in Italy, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Brazil, China and Norway, the €2.5 million project began in March 2016 and examined underlying political and structural challenges to global justice and provide in-depth knowledge on the EU’s role as a global actor within the fields of climate change, peace and security, asylum and migration, and trade and development. In order to ensure the broader impact of GLOBUS, the project involved decision makers at the global, EU and national levels, as well as representatives from European and international organisations and NGOs, in addition to the research groups.