European Union Center

EU Day Event Webcasts are online!

If you missed our annual European Union Day you can still watch the keynote address by His Excellency Jonas Hafström, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Sweden to the United States, as well as the "Green Sweden" panel discussion

2009-10 Faculty Conference Travel Grant applications due December 4.

Domestic and international conference grants to support the professional development of EUC-affiliated faculty members. Applications for the 2009-10 academic year must be submitted by December 4, 2009.

Teacher Orientation for Eurochallenge 2010 on November 20th.

Euro Challenge 2010 is an exciting educational opportunity for high schools students (grades 9 & 10) to learn about the European Union (EU) – the largest trading partner of the US – and its single currency, the euro. Now in its fifth year, the Euro Challenge is designed to appeal to students with a background in global studies, economics, world history/geography or European studies.

Remembering 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall faculty panel discussion is November 9th.

The European Union Center and and the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center have convened a panel of University of Illinois faculty to discuss this historically significant event with the perspsective gained from the passage of twenty years.

Check out the winning entries for this fall's EUC Photo Contest.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks for all the entries.  Look for these photographs to appear on the home page soon.