The project

The project “European Values and Cultural Identities: Constitutional Challenges of the Promotion of the ‘European Way of Life’” (EU-VALUE) is a Jean Monnet Module, funded by the European Commission at the University of Milan.

The project aims at strengthening the promotion of the European core values (as enshrined in article 2 TEU) by fostering knowledge and promoting the exchange and circulation of ideas (both within and outside the academia) on:

• the relevance of European fundamental values as the core of the European cultural identity (the “European way of life”) and of the European common constitutional tradition, and the need for their promotion (and protection) in the framework of the European Union’s “constitutionalization”
• the constitutional relevance of “cultural identities” and the challenges that the defence of peculiar (individual, group, national) cultural identities poses, in a European Constitutional Law perspective, for the promotion of European values
• the interaction (and the balancing point) between the promotion of European values and the need to respect the plural cultural identities that are represented in European societies

The project will pursue this objective through the creation of two new teaching/learning activities (for a total of 135 hours of teaching):

• a new course on “European Values and Cultural Rights”, (core activity), that will be held starting in the academic year 2023-24 (for three editions), at the Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Milan (40 hours / 6 university credits per edition, for a total of 120 hours), open to all the University’s students
• three annual seminars (5 hours each, for a total of 15 hours), on the main issues connected to the “Constitutional Challenges of the Promotion of the ‘European Way of Life’”, with the participation of students, scholars, experts, policymakers, professionals (legal professionals and journalists), and open to members of the civil society and to the general public