The Jean Monnet Modules are part of the Jean Monnet Actions «Teaching and Research», which aim to promote worldwide excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies from an internal as well as a global perspective by encouraging dialogue between academia and society, generating knowledge and ideas to support policymakers and enhance the role of the European Union in Europe and a globalized world, promoting its values and by raising the profile of what it actually represents and strives to achieve.