Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in EU Law

About the Centre

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Law was established on the basis of the Jean Monnet project with the same name, awarded by the European Commission in 2015. Its institutional embodiment as an autonomous entity at the Faculty of Law took place two years later, and it happened symbolically on 9 May 2017 (i.e. on Europe Day and the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, when the process of European integration was launched).

At the time being this unit is still the only one Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the field of European law in the Czech Republic. This research centre was also the first entity from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to receive a prestigious grant from the European Commission in the Jean Monnet network category, which resulted in the creation of a network of five leading universities from five European countries (Palacký University in Olomouc as coordinator, Heidelberg University,
Tallinn University of Technology, Comenius University in Bratislava and Schevchenko University in Kyiv), the project was successfully completed in 2024.
As a focal point in the research of the European integration issues, the JMC had implemented these grants:

– In category of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence the project „Reform of the Union and Related Issues) ref.n. 565445 – EPP-1-2015-1-CZ-EPPJMO-CoE
– In category Jean Monet Network the project „The EU and Challenges of Modern Society, Legal Issues of Digitalisation, Robotisation and Cybersecurity, ref.n. 611293-EPP-1-2019-1-CZ-EPPJMO-NETWORK

Besides the projects, the JMC conduct on the regular basis these activities :
– Organisation of scientific forums – conferences and workshops (mainly with international participation)
– Discussion activities – round tables, lectures by leading experts from practice and science
– Publishing in cooperation with Wolters Kluwer, twice a year, a periodical – the scientific international journal "European Studies. The Review of European Law, Economics and Politics" (indexed in Scopus)
– Activities within the operation of the blog " Modern Europe and Law "
– Publications of JM Centre members, for instance:
– Close cooperation and synergies with the Czech Association for European Studies, a scientific society that brings together experts on the issue of European integration, enabling them to be involved in the activities of the Centre and cooperate with them in the field of conference and publication activities. At the same time, this implies cooperation with similar scientific associations abroad
– Close cooperation with the Partner´s Universities abroad in the form of joint projects, research, and publications Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in EU Law continues its cutting-edge research in new areas.