EUIndoPac Jean Monnet University Teaching Module

  • The EU and the Indo-Pacific Region. Challenges and opportunities

    Academic coordinator: Prof. Dr. Nicolas de Sadeleer

Teaching Module

The EUIndoPac Jean Monnet Teaching Module (40 hours) offers a unique way to learn about the EU’s policy and legal developments impacting the Indo-Pacific region. This crash course aims at preparing a new generation of law and policy students to understand the complexities of the EU’s evolving global role and its impact on the Indo-Pacific region. The Module is delivered by UCLouvain, IEE St Louis (180 in QS World University) and the European Institute for Asian Studies EIAS (a major policy think-tank in Brussels).

This crash course evolves around four key regulatory areas:

  • Promotion of free, fair and sustainable trade through bilateral treaties;
  • EU strategic autonomy and screening of foreign investments;
  • Sustainability in regulating trade in products and commodities;
  • EU digital strategy.

The Module shall enable students to grasp the main political and legal issues related to the functioning of the EU and its external role in the Indo-Pacific.

Location and timing

The Module will take place as a presential and online teaching program at UCLouvain (QS 180 World University Ranking), Saint-Louis campus in center Brussels, capital of the EU, and will be delivered as an intensive interactive unit (40 hours) 3 to 8 June 2024 between 09 am to noon Brussels time (CET), plus 2 1/2 hours seminars in the afternoons).

Registration

The Module primarily targets students (Bachelor of Laws holders) as well as practitioners and experts from the Indo-Pacific region. There are no tuition fees.

The applicants must submit before May 16th 2024 to Prof. de Sadeleer (by email: euindopac@outlook.fr):

  • a curriculum vitae,
  • referee’s reference,
  • a motivation letter,
  • the proof that they have at minimum a B2 English level,
  • if he/she will participate online or presential.

Certificate of Attendance

Upon successful completion of the Module, participants will be issued a Certificate of Attendance.

Teaching Activities

  • Teaching Activity 1 (6h.): Introduction to EU law and policy
  • Teaching Activity 2 (6h.): Bilateral trade agreements between the EU and Indo-Pacific countries
  • Teaching Activity 3 (7h.): EU digital strategy and regulations & Screening of foreign investments
  • Teaching Activity 4 (6h.): EU digital strategy and regulations
  • Teaching Activity 5 (7h.): EU unilateral rules promoting fair and sustainable trade with the Indo-Pacific region

Teaching Staff

The lectures will be given by lead lecturers and researchers with extensive international background, proven competence in EU law and policy and interdisciplinary and practical experience in the EU and the Indo-Pacific region.