2024-11-15 - The European Union Center is excited to announce the results of the 2024-25 Illinois High School Translation Competition. Fifty-seven students from 30 schools in Illinois participated this year.

2024-11-12 - The European Union Center welcomes applications for EUC Professional Development Grants to support conference or workshop travel. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty may submit proposals related to conference presentations or workshops that offer training directly relevant to their teaching and research at the university.

2024-10-25 - The European Union Center is seeking applications for a research assistant with interest in research, outreach activities, and academic development. This position is a 25% appointment for the spring 2025 semester. The application deadline is Friday, Nov. 15.

2024-10-25 - The European Union Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for our Master of Arts in European Union Studies program. This two-year program allows students to gain specialized knowledge about the European Union in an...

2024-10-21 - Please see here for lists of language courses and area studies courses with EU/European studies content that will be offered in spring 2025.

2024-09-25 - Are you interested in learning a new language or practicing your skills in a language? If so, please check out the following language tables on campus! Arabic: September 26th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; October 23rd, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; November 20th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; December 4th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The location is 801 South Wright Street, 125 Coble Hall....

2024-08-01 - The EU Center is pleased to announce that Jessica Greenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been appointed the EUC Acting Director for the 2024-25 academic year.

2024-05-03 - The European Union Center is pleased to share the news that U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture, a project initiated by Aspen Institute Germany in collaboration with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been extended for three years, through 2027.

2024-05-03 - The European Union Center is pleased to announce the application for summer 2024 course development grants for faculty at community colleges and minority-serving institutions.

2024-04-12 - The European Union Center congratulates MAEUS student Angelina Sandora, who successfully defended her master's thesis, “European Integration, Political Resentment and Migration into Italy."

2024-04-04 - On March 22 and 28, the European Union Center hosted the Midwest preliminary round of the Euro Challenge, an economic policy competition for high school students. Funded by the EU Delegation to the U.S., the Euro Challenge involves teams of 3-5 students giving a 15-minute presentation during which they discuss the current economic situation in the euro area and propose policies to address...

2024-04-02 - Please see below for lists of language courses and area studies courses with EU/European studies content that will be offered in fall 2024. These lists are meant to be comprehensive but not exhaustive. If you are teaching a course that you think should be included, please contact eucenter@illinois.edu. European Union Studies EURO 376 – Children and Youth Literature (CWL/GWS/...

2024-03-20 - The European Union Center is saddened to announce that Professor Luisa-Elena Delgado passed away on March 19 following a long battle with cancer. Dr. Delgado was a professor of Spanish & Portuguese and the former director of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics (SLCL), as well as an EUC affiliate. She also held appointments with Gender and Women's Studies, the Unit for...

2024-03-07 - The European Union Center is pleased to share the program for its 14th Illinois EU Studies Conference on April 18-19, 2024. The conference theme is "Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources." This conference is part of a multi-year project that aims to deprovincialize the perspective provided by Critical Race Theory and test its assumptions within the multiracial and multicultural...

2024-02-29 - The European Union Center is excited to welcome the Italian contemporary dance company Artemis Danza to Champaign-Urbana for this year’s EU Day of Art on Monday, March 18 at 7 P.M. Artemis Danza’s performance of “Corpi Violati,” inspired by stories of gender violence and aimed at highlighting the issue of violence against women, will be held in Lincoln Hall Theater (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL...