Center for Study of Europe Wins EU Grant
The Center for the Study of Europe, an affiliated regional center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was one of sixteen American educational organizations to win a competitive two-year grant from the European Union.
The Getting to Know Europe grant program will grant the Center for the Study of Europe $100,000 to curate a series of events with European artists, writers, and poets, as well as European media, academics, and policymakers, on topics fundamental to the future of the EU-US relationship.
From the text of the announcement of the award on the Center for the Study of Europe’s website:
The aim of the project is to launch a longer-term conversation on the future of Europe, what “Europe” means, and what its next steps ought to be. These are important matters also for Americans, given the interdependence of the global economy, the global nature of the challenges that confront us, and the different routes the world may take depending on the path Europe chooses.
You can read the entire award announcement here.
The first of the “European Voices” events planned using funds from the grant will take place on Sept. 21. It will comprise a reading, book signing and reception with the Swiss author Christian Kracht.