In July 2024 the proposal of the EUGLOB project was approved by the European Commission with an overall score of 91.5/100. Below you can read the abstract of the project:
In today’s increasingly disruptive times and unpredictable world, it is crucial for EU leadership to identify and even anticipate global policy challenges and shape their regulation in accordance with EU core values of liberal democracy, solidarity, equality and sustainability. The EUGLOB project aims to be a central hub of knowledge on the EU’s unique role as an agenda-setter and policy shaper of transnational problems regulation. The focus of our work is on new and crucial areas of policy formulation in which the EU is playing or is expected to play a decisive role both within and beyond its borders: (1) data protection, (2) artificial intelligence, (3) environmental sustainability, (4) one welfare, (5) global health and (3) gender equality. Our approach is comprehensive, interdisciplinary and rooted in our firm belief in the outreach of the Jean Monnet epistemic community. Our goal is to develop teaching and research on the EU, while also transferring knowledge to students, political elites, media and civil society about the EU’s central role as a provider of public policies with global impact. We combine the perspectives of political science, international relations, law, geography and economics in all three dimensions (teaching, research and knowledge transfer) of our activities. This project aims to contribute to the structural consolidation of the work developed by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Policies (EUPOL) since 2018 (Jean Monnet Chair Calls 2018 and 2021) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.