About the NearEU Module

The proposed module has the aim to create new knowledge, tools, and resources related to Europeanization towards the European Union’s Eastern neighbourhood, candidate countries, and – more in general – wider Europe. The context that requires such effort is one in which the ‘expansive’ potential of European integration is increasingly unsettled and challenged by alternative models of regionalism.

This Jean Monnet action is functional to the creation and the support of a new “European Union –Russia Studies” module within the framework of the master’s programme in “International relations and regional studies” at the J. Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Within the framework of the module, emphasis will be given to coherently and synergically integrated innovative methods of teaching, bi-directional interactivity, blended learning, and open educational resource (OER) material. The module offers a multi-disciplinary and a diverse methodological perspective on the process of European integration, EU’s relations with its Eastern neighbourhood and Russia and with different alternative models of regionalism in Europe and Eurasia. The offer of in-class and online courses as well as the other activities developed with the framework of the module has been attentively crafted in order to ensure the best balance of multi-disciplinary and methodological diversity.

Namely, the proposed Jean Monnet module consists of the following set of diversified and tightly integrated activities:

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