AFRICA-EUROPEAN UNION CONNECTIVITY

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The University of Lagos through a team of academic staff who formed a cohort for promoting European studies in the University of Lagos is poised to establish a Jean Monnet Module programme woven around a tripod: teaching, policy research and capacity building. The main objective of the programme is geared towards promoting enlightenment, awareness and understanding of the EU policy and systems, building capacity to contribute to policy design and advocacy as well as to facilitate the teaching and learning of European culture, history and political system with a view to fostering policy dialogue with stakeholders, and raise awareness about the relevant European policy. In addition, the adoption of one school at a time by concentrating on University of Lagos students is to deepen the impact. Yet the facilitators are from Europe, and other African countries hence providing a broader-based approach to the learning experience and exposure of the participants and giving the programme the widest coverage beyond the existing educational programme in which hardly anybody beyond the locals attends The programme adopts a progressive activity-based approach that starts with Summer School on Africa-European Union Connectivity provides the breeding ground for new advocates for the EU policies and values, followed by a Training Workshop on EU Policy Research and Analysis to build on the gains from the summer school and equips the new advocates who attend the summer school and conclude with the Conference on European Union and African Integration At the end of the programme, a new more than 100 Nigerian undergraduate students who had no direct exposure to EU studies would have become EU policy advocates in Africa and with the publication of at least a book and 20 publication in journals. Also, a framework for scaling up the impact to the national and continental level would have been created with the University of Lagos 3 years programme of Jean Monnet Module