Governing the environment-economy nexus in the European Green Deal

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The objective of the Jean Monnet Chair ECOvalence is to provide research led teaching and to raise public awareness on the governance of the two central building blocks of sustainable future: the economy and the environment. The angle of observation is the European Green Deal, which sets out the EU’s strategic objective to build a society that is economically competitive, yet also resource efficient and without greenhouse gas emissions. For the strategy to succeed, the EU needs to show leadership in environmental and economic policies separately, but also to combine these areas of governance wisely. To fully understand the challenges and opportunities of the strategy, focused research, teaching and awareness raising is called for. Project ECOvalence will respond to this call by creating and disseminating knowledge about the complicated environment-economy nexus, which lies at the heart of the Green Deal. ECOvalence will do so through a comprehensive combination of four research-based post-graduate courses and a doctoral research seminar in EU law and policy at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). ECOvalence is aimed at reaching international students from across the EU and beyond in innovative ways. The educational offer is complemented by a rich selection of hybrid (onsite and online) expert events, targeted at fostering a lively discussion with the policy and scientific communities, corporations, the civil society and the general public about the challenges and opportunities of governing the environment-economy nexus that the Green Deal envisions.