Promoting Public Awareness on Enlargement Policy, EU Values and the Western Balkans' Accession

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The Jean Monnet Chair in Promoting Public Awareness on Enlargement Policy, EU Values and the Western Balkans’ Accession focuses on the evolution of EU Enlargement policy and its implications in the construction of EU identity based on its core values (article 2 TEU), as well as on the EU strategy toward the Western Balkans. It will be addressed to students, graduates and PhD candidates, and to all stakeholders (legal operators, judges, lawyers, law enforcement officials, civil servants and civil society, policy makers), also from the Western Balkans, and will be essential in the current stage of EU integration process for the construction of a widen community of law based on the respect for democracy and human rights. Furthermore, the Chair will mark a further step to deepen and expand the research activities, that have been addressed in the Jean Monnet Module EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs (2019-2022). To this end, the Chair will be organized as follows: - a course in Enlargement Policy, EU Values and the Western Balkans’ Accession (72 hrs., 8 ECTS), hold by the Chair holder (at least 30 beneficiaries); - a law clinic in EU Cooperation on JHA with the Western Balkans (36 hrs., 6 ECTS, both online and in-person) hold by the Chair holder and the team Chair (at least 30 beneficiaries); - 2 international conferences (both online and in-person) under the guidance of the Chair holder and the team Chair (at least 60 beneficiaries each). Combining the needs of didactic innovation with training and professional updating in EU studies, the Chair will generate high qualified knowledge and insights on EU policy-making concerning cross border issues which are in increasing demand on the labour market. This will be useful to all the participants, both from Italy and the Western Balkans, that will be actively involved in the events and the elaboration of the outputs of the projects (questionnaires, reports, scientific publications).