UCL EI: European Identity, Diversity, Energy, Security

ongoing

The European Institute (EI) is UCL’s hub for research, education, and engagement on Europe. A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016, we provide institutional leadership, innovate education, support the research environment, and enhance the reach of UCL work on Europe through public, policy, and student engagement. The proposed work programme (EURIDES: European Identity, Diversity, Energy & Security) consolidates the EI as a focal point of competence on EU affairs – at UCL, in the UK and globally. Embedded in our core business activities and framed by an impact and dissemination strategy, the programme is structured around four thematic Work Packages (WPs). Each addresses a topical policy field for today’s EU. Our SECURITY WP pairs UCL’s foremost expert on Russian politics with the UK’s leading think tank on Europe, the Centre for European Reform, to deliver analysis and knowledge exchange on Russia’s war on Ukraine and the future of Europe’s security architecture, developing events and resources for UK and European policy communities. For the ENERGY WP, we partner with UCL’s Institute of Sustainable Resources to co-deliver the stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange dimension of a two-year, part externally funded research programme, designed to inform policy on UK-EU electricity trading and the economics of industrial decarbonisation. For our DIVERSITY WP, we develop new research clusters comprising UCL academics from twelve departments to interrogate the presumption of whiteness in the study of Europe, and to develop an online European Literary Map of London. The map is designed with EU National Institutes of Culture as a teaching, research and public engagement tool – and includes an associated exhibition. And for our IDENTITY WP, we convene a high-level workshop with senior academics and judges to shape scholarly and juridical discourse around Europe’s constitutional identity, exploring the potential for an edited volume on this topic.