Digital Europe and Future Integration

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The Chair, Digital Europe and Future Integration, focuses on new technologies and the impact it will have on the European integration process. The future is digital and the EU must prepare for it. Digitalisation is important for the development of the society and offers numerous possibilities. European integration in the digital field could be relevant because mostly is not still entailed by national sovereignty. It opens prospects for deepening the Union reducing the potential opposition of the actors involved. The Chair/project focus on three main priorities: 1- Digital Single Market and EU integration. 2- E-governance and the EU demos. 3- Digital social systems and convergence in Europe. In addition, the Chair is complemented with two other fields of teaching/research: 4- Cyber-security and EU integration. 5- New Technologies and Common Defence Policy in the EU, including a set of complementary aspects. The Chair analyses the positive potential consequences of integrating these new areas in relation to further development of the European Union. The proposal entails teaching five courses, the creation of five research groups, focused on the priorities of the project. The main activities are accompanied with an ambitious plan of activities, including: - A powerful social media plan. – Website. - Publications in prestigious academic journals. - Workshop on Digital development of the EU. - Round-table debates. - Competition to attract more attention from students and general audience and increase the visibility. - Study visit to the EU institutions and European policy makers. - Final conference for the Chair/research.- Publication of a monograph.- generation of open teaching materials and participation in international conferences for dissemination. The Chair holder and the expert team experience guaranties the success and the ambition of the Chair with the resources accessible. The EU will digitalize itself and the Chair will help in the process.