AWARDS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
JMEUCE STUDENT AWARDS
The JMEUCE is pleased to invite applications for its annual awards for Dalhousie students interested in the EU:
- ESSAY AWARD: $200 for best essay on any aspect of the EU. For the 2021 winner, see: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz, The European Union’s Migration Management: Border Externalization and the Negligence to Human Rights
- RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP: $6,000 Mitacs Globalink Research Award available for 12-24 week research project in an eligible European country with focus on EU-relevant topic. Deadlines through the year.
For application forms and details of eligiblity, contact jmeuce@dal.ca.
LATEST NEWS & DEADLINES
- Viscount Bennett Chair Roundtable on International Economic Law - Dispute Settlement Under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement: Perspectives from North America and Europe. Fri. 5th Nov.: 10.00-11.30 ADT, via Zoom (register here). We are pleased to be collaborating with the Schulich School of Law on this online event.
- Online lecture on Euro-African Borderwork and Local Politics in the Sahel, Philippe Frowd, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. Tues. 2nd Nov.: 10.05-11.30.
- EU Study Tour (May 2022) & Internship Programme - "an excellent study opportunity -- less a "course" than an immersion in European institutions, a program for self-directed and independent study. Limited JMEUCE funding support available. Contact jmeuce@dal.ca for application details and how to do the tour for credit.
- Interested in doing research in Europe on an EU-relevant topic? $6,000 Mitacs GRA scholarships available for Dal students. Next deadline: November 2021. Contact jmeuce@dal.ca for information.
- JMEUCE Fellow Evangelia Tsastoglou et al., paper on The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean, Front. Hum. Dyn., Refugees and Conflict, Special Research Topic on Gender, Violence and Forced Migration (2021)
- JMEUCE Fellow Dimitri Constas, article on EU Summit, Refugees and Turkey: A Proposal, Editors’ Journal, Athens Daily (28th June 2021)
- JMEUCE Director, Ruben Zaiotti, on Lingering Effects: Mobility and Border Control in a Post-Pandemic Europe in CIC's Behind the Headlines, Vol. 69, No. 20 (May 2021).
- Public online lecture on INTERNAL BORDERS AND HEALTH CRISIS IN THE EU: IS COVID A THREAT TO SCHENGEN? with Dr Ngo Chun Luk, Researcher, Justice and Home Affairs Section, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. 1st Apr. 2021 via Teams Live. Watch the recording of the lecture on YouTube here.
- JMEUCE Student Essay Prize: Best essay on any aspect of the EU, whether an individual member state or the EU as a whole: $200 prize plus posting of essay on JMEUCE website. 2021 winner: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz, The European Union’s Migration Management: Border Externalization and the Negligence to Human Rights.
