The European University Centre is a historical institute for European Studies. It was created in 1950 and it celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2000. For its 60th Anniversary in 2010, it also celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Alumni CEU , which has become the main engine of this institute.

Location

The European Centre is located in Nancy, France. This city is located in Lorraine (region)

Lorraine (région)

Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...

, border with the countries of Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg, and the French Region of Alsace. So Nancy is in the heart of the four European main cities: Brussels 327 km, Frankfurt 301 km, Luxembourg City 155 km and Strasbourg 156 km.

Nancy is very well served by the high-speed train line called ‘TGV East Europe’, which connects the city to Paris in 1:30 hours and to Strasbourg in 1 hour. In addition, since the city and its area have 40,000 university students from over 260,000 people, Nancy becomes the 5th university town in France.

History

The European Centre was established in 1950 with a clear objective by leading academics and with the support of politicians. To receive students throughout the continent, but especially those of Europe on the other side of the Curtain Steel, in the heart of Europe was aimed. Later, the European Communities became what we call today as the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

, and the European Centre became an institution of high reputation. Nowadays, the institute offers specialised education on European issues: European Union law

European Union law

European Union law is a body of treaties and legislation, such as Regulations and Directives, which have direct effect or indirect effect on the laws of European Union member states. The three sources of European Union law are primary law, secondary law and supplementary law...

, Financial Management, Strategic Communication

Strategic Communication

Strategic Communication can mean either communicating a concept, a process, or data that satisfies a long term strategic goal of an organization by allowing facilitation of advanced planning, or communicating over long distances usually using international telecommunications or dedicated global...

, Local Communities and Law of European Union Jurisdictions.

Programme

Courses and seminars are offered by professors from both French and foreign universities, senior officials of the European Union and the Council of Europe, and professionals with expertise in law, management, economics and communications. In addition to this, the European Centre has an official European Information Office called Centre for European Documentation ( (CDE)).

Since its inception, the European Centre has welcomed around 3,500 students from more than 100 different nationalities. Each year, half of them are from France and the other half come from other European countries and World countries. This international mission has allowed the institute to hold commissioners, ministers, economists, communicators, lawyers, administrators and professors on the nowadays European scene.