The project supported by this grant, “Democratic Opportunities, Lessons, Cultures, and Exchanges” (DOLCE), is designed to address regional and global trends towards a destabilization of trust in democratic institutions by integrating European Union democratic principles, media governance frameworks, and civic participation models into research, teaching, and public engagement. DOLCE aims to achieve two main goals. First, it will integrate EU case studies and comparative frameworks into rapidly expanding campus programs that seek to move beyond exclusively U.S. based models for civic education, urban planning, media studies, public policy and law. Second, DOLCE team members will shed new light on the ways in which democratic resilience is built through cultural, institutional, and policy processes from the ground up. As a laboratory for comparative research and public engagement, DOLCE will promote the importance of EU-U.S. knowledge sharing to support robust cultures of civic participation through scholarly research, policy innovation and teaching.
As part of this project, the DOLCE team will organize speaker series, symposia, residencies, transatlantic research mobilities, media and digital literacy workshops, and curriculum workshops. DOLCE will also support course development, graduate student research, experiential learning, co-curricular activities, and study abroad.
In addition, the EUC, along with 19 other partners across Europe, Canada, and the U.S., was awarded a Jean Monnet Network in Higher Education grant for the project TANDEM (Network for Dialogue, Education and Multidisciplinary Research), which seeks to unite voices from both sides of the Atlantic to advance research, education, and dialogue on transatlantic relations. Coordinated by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven and led by Jan Wouters, this three-year network will launch in December 2025.
The EUC previously received three Jean Monnet Center of Excellence grants, two Jean Monnet Modules, and three Getting to Know Europe grants. The center was established in 1998 with support from the European Union as one of the ten original EU Centers in the U.S. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Education designated the EUC as a Title VI National Resource Center, a distinction that the center continues to hold today.
As part of this project, the DOLCE team will organize speaker series, symposia, residencies, transatlantic research mobilities, media and digital literacy workshops, and curriculum workshops. DOLCE will also support course development, graduate student research, experiential learning, co-curricular activities, and study abroad.
In addition, the EUC, along with 19 other partners across Europe, Canada, and the U.S., was awarded a Jean Monnet Network in Higher Education grant for the project TANDEM (Network for Dialogue, Education and Multidisciplinary Research), which seeks to unite voices from both sides of the Atlantic to advance research, education, and dialogue on transatlantic relations. Coordinated by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven and led by Jan Wouters, this three-year network will launch in December 2025.
The EUC previously received three Jean Monnet Center of Excellence grants, two Jean Monnet Modules, and three Getting to Know Europe grants. The center was established in 1998 with support from the European Union as one of the ten original EU Centers in the U.S. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Education designated the EUC as a Title VI National Resource Center, a distinction that the center continues to hold today.
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