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New HORIZON project
The Jean Monnet Chair participates in the HORIZON project “Digital Transformation for Building Democratic Resilience,” which has reached the Grant Agreement Preparation stage under the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. The project is coordinated by Prof. David Ramiro Troitiño (Tallinn University of Technology). The University of Wrocław (prof. Aleksandra Maatsch, Jean Monnet Chair at the…
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PhD Defence by Bastian Küntzel
We are pleased to announce that on Friday, 23 January 2026, Bastian Küntzel has defended his PhD thesis entitled “From Openness to Closure: the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Transnational Identity at the Polish-German Border.”The dissertation was conducted within the framework of a cotutelle agreement between the University of Wroclaw, the Faculty of Social…
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Kinga Koranyi spoke at a panel EU Governance and Rule of Law Conditionality in Hungary, organized by LUISS University and Sapienza, November 25th 2025.
https://redemo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251125-Rule-of-Law-Conditionality-in-Hungary-KKoranyi-Flyer.pdf
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Aleksandra Maatsch attended the Pariser Platz Dialogue organized by Delors Centre and Herite and contributed as a speaker to the panel “Opening Options: Weimar+, coalitions of the willing and the need for a European avant-Garde” moderated by Thu Nguyen (Delors Centre) and Pascal Lamy (Coordinator Delors Network), Oliver Linz (Federal Foreign Office, Germany), Nicolai von Ondarza (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), 4-5 December 2025.
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Aleksandra Maatsch attended a conference “Poland, Czechia, Germany, the European Union and the new world order” organized by the Silesian Institute in Opole, where she moderated a panel on EU (des)integration with prof. Zdenek Jirasek (Opava University), prof. Arkadiusz Stempin (Uczelnia Korczaka) and dr Błażej Choroś (UO), November 18-19, 2025.
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The team of the research project weave unisono “The Domestic Politics of EU Action against Democratic Backsliding, DEUDEM” meets at the University of Bremen, 15-16.09.2025. Further information about the project:
http://sites.google.com/view/deudem
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The Jean Monnet Network on Digitalisation in the EU (ENDE) organises a biannual workshop in Cambados, with Vigo University as a host, 29.09-1.10.2025.
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Anna Paczesniak appointed by the Polish Minister of Science as the Chairperson of the Council for Women in Higher Education and Science (2025-2027).
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Anna Pacześniak became a member of the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons nominated by the European Parliament (2025-29).
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Aleksandra Maatsch took part in the Pariser Platz Dialogue organised by Jacques Delors Centre & Hertie School, Berlin 28-29 Nov 2024.
This year the Pariser Platz Dialogue (28-29 Nov, Berlin) has hosted exciting debates on the European agenda bringing together voices from France and Germany but also other European countries. Aleksandra Maatsch part in the discussion on democratic resilience in times of uncertainty with Benjamin Haddad (Minister Delegate for Europe) and Anna Lührmann (Minister of State…

