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 Green Deal strategy to succeed, the EU needs to show leadership in environmental and economic policies separately, but also to combine these areas of governance wisely. The Jean Monnet Chair ECOvalence will create and disseminate knowledge about the environment-economy nexus. ECOvalence will offer over 2022-2025 a comprehensive combination of four annual research-based post-graduate courses and a continuous doctoral research seminar in EU law and policy at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
The Chair is aimed at reaching international students from across the EU and beyond in innovative ways. The post-graduate 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.
The planned educational offer will create competences to access demanding sustainble economy jobs in public administration, education and companies. Knowledge on e.g. climate objectives, the circular economy and biodiversity is nowadays simply indispensable.
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