This application will enable the Chair holder to make City Law School a dynamic hub of teaching and research on EU law. It will address creatively a range of audiences: it will revamp the content of its teaching and innovate in its delivery; it will bring together EU law scholars with practitioners and decision-makers; it will consolidate links with the professions; it will address civil society and raise the visibility of the EU and its policies beyond the academic community. Students will be exposed to a novel, more interactive and dynamic way of familiarising themselves with the practice of EU law. They will interact with decision-makers and practitioners and will be encouraged to develop independent thinking, research and problem-solving skills.The EU law research and its environment at the University will change drastically: interactions with other disciplines of EU studies, practitioners, decision-makers will be encouraged actively by the regular organisation of workshops on topical issues, mainly related to the role of the EU in the world; the outcomes of these events will be published in order to ensure their wide dissemination to an audience of various academic backgrounds. Finally, City University London will develop synergies with policy-makers practitioners and civil society: it will organise public lectures by prominent speakers; it will publicise them widely; it will make their content available on its website. All in all, the award of the Jean Monnet Chair will enable City Law to become a forum for innovative and wide-ranging teaching, advanced and multi-disciplinary research and dynamic and on-going debate on the European Union. As they all blend in a coherent whole, these activities will target students, scholars, practitioners, decision-makers and the wider public.