Building stronger Europe through teaching and education

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BuildEU Jean Monnet module targets first year master students of European studies and Political science with the aim to build stronger Europe through teaching and education. Within the project, we will equip students with skills for active and professional participation in EU policymaking process. BuildEU seeks to address the following five objectives: 1) Provide excellence in teaching EU studies 2) Connect the students from Slovenia with other students from EU to build a feeling of EU studies community 3) Bring practitioners and practical knowledge to students 4) Share most recent scientific results by prominent scholars 5) Open EU studies to public by creating students blog The BuildEU Jean Monnet module will be implemented at University of Ljubljana were we have experiences with conducting different Jean Monnet project. The project coordinator, Meta Novak has participated in several Jean Monnet projects and will draw on her personal experiences and good practices. Activities of BuildEU Jean Monnet module will be implemented in 60 hours course Comparative interest groups politics that covers the role of participatory democracy in the EU, key theories on the development of interest groups; research approaches in comparing interest group politics across time and across EU countries; interest group behaviour and strategies in various contexts (local, national, European). Several events will be organised such as: yearly guest lecture by prominent interest groups scholars, yearly visit by practitioner (both open to all students) and role plays and simulation games on selected topics between local and other European students. BuildEU Jean Monnet module will prepare deliverables for different target groups such as: project website, project social media accounts, leaflet and blog written by students for the general public, handbook on interest groups in EU policymaking for students and academic article for academic community.