The European Union Center of Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley is a joint effort of the Institute of European Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, working in cooperation with the School of Public Health, the Institute of Governmental Studies, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, and the School of Law on the UC Berkeley campus. The EU Center develops and promotes education, research, and outreach programs aimed at mainstreaming EU perspectives on a wide variety of issues through its educational, business, scientific, and policy networks. The Center broadly disseminates research and focuses training on targeted aspects of European integration and the EU’s new global role. It serves as a regional resource center for undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary education, outreach to the wider educational and scientific and business communities, people-to-people and electronic exchanges, and conferences focused on key aspects of European Union and its role in the world. With the creation of this EU Center of Excellence, UC Berkeley will continue to play a vital role in promoting a deeper understanding of the European Union and raise the level of dialogue and discourse on transatlantic relations throughout the State of California.

The EU Center supports a number of activities related to the better understanding of and teaching about the European Union. Academic opportunities include faculty research grants, curriculum development grants, pre-dissertation/dissertation fellowships for graduate students, support of the annual Claremont – UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union, and a working papers series. In addition, the EU Center supports a visiting speaker series and a series of conferences and workshops on the following themes: Transatlantic Relations in a Post-Transatlantic World; the Euro, the European Union, and the World; Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems; and Immigration, Integration, and Cultural Change in the European Union.

• Beverley Crawford, Co-director and Associate Director, Institute of European Studies
• Jeffrey Pennington, Co-director and Executive Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Noga Wizansky, Assistant Director

• Transatlantic Relations in a Post-Transatlantic World — assesses the changing nature of the transatlantic economic, social, and political relationship in a world in which China, Russia, and India are rapidly rising to great power status, a world in which the EU has assumed the role of a major international actor, and a world in which global problems require broad cooperative global solutions.
• The Euro, the Union, and the World — addresses issues such as the Euro’s growing international role, the accession of new EU members in the Euro-zone, and the impact of the Euro on fragile European economies. Our pursuit of this theme will draw on the internationally recognized strengths of UC Berkeley faculty in economic and monetary analysis.
• Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems — focuses on a range of new governance problems facing both the EU and the U.S., including cross-border public health threats, threats of resource scarcity, the environment, and regulation across issue areas. The EU Center will partner with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health within UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health in order to tap world class faculty expertise for research and discussion of institutional responses to these issues.
• Immigration, Integration, and Cultural Change in the European Union — EU Center activities in this area are particularly appropriate because they will commence in the 2008 “Year for Intercultural Dialogue” and address the EU Commission’s Cultural Agenda for Europe. Partners for the EU Center in pursuit of this theme will be Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity within the UC Berkeley School of Law, and the multi-campus research center on Comparative Immigration and Integration, located at the University of California, Davis

The Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, (MEUCE) is a consortium of Florida International University (FIU) and the University of Miami (UM). At FIU,it is housed within the School of International and Public Affairs at the College of Arts & Sciences. At UM it is administered by the Jean Monnet Chair, located within the Department of International Studies, which reports to the Dean of Arts and Sciences.

The mission of the Miami-Florida EUCE, is to promote teaching, research, and outreach activities relating to the EU. To accomplish this mission, the Miami-Florida EUCE, facilitates the development of new courses on the EU, provides for financial assistance to graduate students and faculty pursuing research on topics related to the EU, holds academic conferences on EU matters, sponsors public lectures featuring EU speakers, and conducts outreach workshops for educators, journalists and media professionals, and the greater Miami business community.

The Center runs a European Studies Certificate program that is open to all FIU undergraduates with an interest in any aspect of European civilization, past or present. It is an interdisciplinary program that draws on a broad range of courses from throughout FIU to complement a student's own interests. The program offers a senior colloquium, European Identities, that allows students the opportunity to engage in research on topics of their own choosing in close conjunction with a member of the Program Faculty.

• Dr. Joaquìn Roy, Co-Director, University of Miami
• Dr. Rebecca Friedman, Co-Director, Florida International University
• Christine I. Caly-Sanchez, Assistant Director, Florida International University

The Center for European Studies-European Union Center (CES-EUC) at the University of Michigan is a multi-disciplinary research, education, and outreach program dedicated to improving understanding of modern, integrated Europe at the University of Michigan and in the United States. In 2001, CES received a grant from the European Commission to establish a European Union Center; since 2005, U-M's EUC has been one of a handful of Commission-designated European Union Centers of Excellence at leading research universities in the U.S. In collaboration with academic and research units across U-M, other EU Centers of Excellence, and institutions of higher education in Europe, CES-EUC offers an array of public programs, funding opportunities, and innovative curricular outreach on Europe and administers the Netherlands Visiting Professorship, a partnership between U-M and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated in 1950. Since 2008, CES-EUC also works alongside the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

The Center engages in a variety of research programs:

• Pathways for Women in Leadership Positions (U-M’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business);
• Bologna Process and Beyond (U-M’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and University of Oslo);
• Bacteria without Borders: The European Governance of Communicable Disease Control (U-M’s School of Public Health);
• Muslim Minorities in Europe (U-M’s Instutute for Social Research and Complutense University Madrid);
• Attitudes of Poles towards the EU (U-M’s Department of Political Science and the Polish Academy of Science and Collegium Civitas);
• The Sacralization of Politics in the EU (U-M’s Department of Political Science)

Dario Gaggio, director of the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and associate professor of History. His research focuses on modern European history and history and political economy. Gaggio also serves as student advisor; and Nataša Gruden-Alajbegovic, center administrator.

Religion, Multiculturalism, and Diversity in Europe; European Security and Global Transformations; and European Governance and Democracy.

The Center administers a minor in Modern European Studies and a number of other programs:

• Conversations on Europe Lecture Series and multimedia
• EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe
• Jean Monnet Graduate Fellowship on Issues of European Integration
• Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellows
• Fellowships for Study, Research, and Internships in Europe
• Ford School of Public Policy Internship Program
• Faculty fellowships to support EU-related course development
• Outreach Programs for K-14: EURO Challenge, “Learning from the Experts” lectures for high school students; and Post-secondary Curriculum Development

The European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) at the University of Pittsburgh is focused on the post-enlargement transformation of the European Union, the evolution of both cooperative and conflictual U.S.-EU relations, and the EU's relations with its neighbors as well as with Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It seeks a broad and varied audience, including students, academics, journalists, businessmen and women, NGOs, think-tanks, and policy networks in both the U.S. and abroad. The University of Pittsburgh’s EUCE activities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, EU meeting simulations for both high school and undergraduate students, media briefings, publications, and collaboration with other Pittsburgh regional institutions of higher education. The EUCE offers both undergraduate and graduate certificates in European Union studies. The Center’s events and activities complement those of the European Studies Center, a U.S. Department of Education Title VI-funded area studies National Resource Center. The EUCE’s sponsored workshops, symposia, and conferences attract participants from Europe and the rest of the world. Annually the EUCE hosts 15-20 distinguished visiting scholars and practitioners, one of which was a visit by European Commission President Barroso in 2006. The Center serves as a focal point for the many activities related to the European Union which take place in the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.

Unique among the resources at the University of Pittsburgh for the study and understanding of the EU is the recent transfer to the University Library System of the entire European Union depository collection from the Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. The Delegation’s depository collection is the most extensive collection of public European Community/European Union documents and publications in North America. This expansion of the University’s collection on Europe and the European Union will enhance the Archive of European Integration, an on-line electronic resource, through plans to digitalize a large portion of the collection. Dr. Phil Wilkin of the University Library System is the Archivist of the European Union Collection and the Director of the Archive of European Integration.

• Carolyn Ban, Acting Director
• Timothy S. Thompson, Associate Director
• Thomas Allen, Assistant Director
• Stephen Lund, Assistant Director
• Sandra Hall, Outreach Coordinator
• Karen Lautanen, Activities Administrator

• Undergraduate Certificate in European Union Studies
• Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in European Union Studies
• Undergraduate Certificate in West European Studies
• Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in West European Studies
• BPhil in International and Area Studies – European Union Studies (being developed)

There is growing recognition that the European Union represents a novel phenomenon in international politics: a non-state polity of 27 diverse members, which is nonetheless capable both of generating a dense and expanding web of internal rules and policies, and of projecting them outwards as a regional and global actor. The EU Center of Excellence explores the ongoing transformation of the EU, examining key dimensions of the Union’s internal and external decision-making processes and policies, including the relationship between them.

The Wisconsin-EUCE is expanding into several new subject areas and academic disciplines than in its ten previous years of existence, thereby continuing as a regional, national, and global leader in disseminating knowledge of the European Union.

• Jeremi Suri – Director, EUCE
• Elizabeth Covington - Associate Director, EUCE/Executive Director, ESA
• Csanád Z. Siklós - Assistant Director/Outreach Specialist, ESA
• Drago Momcilovic - Project Assistant, EUCE

1. The EU as a Global Actor (Leader: Jeremi Suri, History)

   This theme examines the growth of the EU as a powerful international actor, focusing on how the EU is using its influence to reshape global governance. It consists of five main projects:

   • Transatlantic Security Cooperation (Jeremi Suri, History)
   • EU Development Assistance (Jeremi Suri, History)
   • Science, the Public, and Global Communication (Dominique Brossard, Journalism and Mass Communications, and Dietram Scheufele, Life Sciences Communication)
   • Global Energy Security (Paul Wilson, Engineering)
   • Governing Climate Change (Greg Nemet, La Follette School of Public Affairs and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies)
2. Transformations of European Law and Governance (Leader: Nils Ringe, Political Science)

   This theme examines current transformations of European law and governance, focusing on who participates in processes of legislation, policy making and regulation, how, and with what outcomes. It comprises four main projects:

   • The Changing Process of European Law Making (Nils Ringe, Political Science)
   • Organized Civil Society and European Governance (Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, and Elizabeth Covington, European Studies)
   • New Governance and the Transformation of Law and Regulation in the EU and North America (David Trubek and Louise Trubek, Law)
   • Changing Labor Markets, Adapting Institutions? Transatlantic Perspectives (Markus Gangl, Sociology
3. Exporting EU Governance (Leader: Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History)

   This theme investigates the external projection of EU governance and regulation beyond the Union’s borders. It includes five main projects:>

   • Exporting Experimentalist Governance (Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History)
   • Transnationalizing Gender Mainstreaming (Myra Marx Ferree, Sociology and Women’s Studies)
   • Transatlantic Perspectives on Health Systems Governance and Innovation (Thomas Oliver, School of Medicine and Public Health, and Louise Trubek, Law School)
   • Managing Challenges of Import Safety in a Global Market (Vicki Bier, Engineering, and Stephanie Tai, Law)
   • The Global Geopolitics of the Knowledge Economy: Regional Linkages and Higher Education Restructuring in Europe and Asia (Kris Olds, Geography)