BoundEUries, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence project

Boundary- and Community-Making in the European Union-BoundEUries is the new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence project granted to the Institute for European studies-Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) for the period 2025-2028. This label is both a sign of international recognition and an instrument that enables us to fulfil our threefold mission of research, teaching, and stimulating public debate.

BoundEUries' Events and News

All the BoundEUries' events and news

NarratEUR 2026 - Harald Wydra

March 11, 2026

« The limits of European identity – A cultural memory of borders »

NarratEUR 2026 - Georg Haeusler - NEW DATE

March 5, 2026

Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe : an alliance full of opportunities… and challenges ?

NarratEUR 2026 - Adina Maricut-Akbik

March 5, 2026

« Europe from a bird's-eye view? How public officials in Brussels see Europeans and behave accordingly »

NarratEUR 2026 - Maria Maggiore

March 11, 2026

« Beyond ‘news nationalism’ : cross-border journalism »

23/03/2026 - Architecture du pouvoir, pouvoir de l’architecture. Le cas de l’Union européenne

March 2, 2026

Séminaire organisé dans le cadre du Centre d'Excellence Jean Monnet BoundEUries. 

NarratEUR 2026

March 11, 2026

A seminar coordinated by François Foret

NarratEUR 2026 - Frank Schimmelfennig 

February 3, 2026

Boundary formation and community building in the European Union: from regulatory state to geopolitical union?

04/12/2025 - Student's Conference: The State of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe

January 13, 2026

Conference organised in the framework of the course Rule of law and mutual trust in global and European governance (Prof. Ramona Coman & Prof. Cecilia Rizcallah)

24/11/2025 - Academic Year Opening Lecture

January 13, 2026

How Europe Can Die… or Survive: Lessons from the Life and Afterlife of International Organizations, by Kiran Klaus Patel

BoundEUries: a new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence begins at the IEE-ULB

January 13, 2026

The Institute for European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) is proud to announce the launch of Boundary- and Community-Making in the European Union (BoundEUries), our new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the period 2025–2028.