Aston Centre for Europe

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The Aston Centre for Europe acts as a ‘hub’ for a range of Europe and EU-related research projects and stakeholder activities across the University. Reflecting the European strengths of Aston’s research culture including specialisms in individual states, Aston Centre for Europe has since its launch in 2009 become a major centre for research in European politics and society and ensured the real-world applicability of that research through practitioner engagement. Aston Centre for Europe promotes research on Europe and its constituent states and role in the world, and interfaces with stakeholders (e.g. policy makers, the public) and gives support to Aston Centre for Europe’s researchers and students.

Ranked as the highest-placed centre outside London for research on Europe in the UK for Area Studies by Research Excellence Framework 2014, in 2016 Aston Centre for Europe became a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. It is at the forefront of research on Europe and its states in the light of dramatic developments across the world: the election of Donald Trump to the United States' presidency, the consequences of Brexit, the migrant crisis, and the rise of populisms in several European states and the challenges to politics and society of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Aston University, Birmingham
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