EURASIA is a capacity building project in higher education aimed at strengthening the academic ties between higher-educational institutions (HEI) coming from 4 program countries (Bulgaria, Poland, France and Italy) with record of excellence in the area of the capacity building and 4 HEI from 2 partner countries (China and India) with complementarity of expertise. In addition, an SME based in London will provide special services to the consortium in line with its expertise. The project faces the challenges and needs to establish, update and modernize curricula in EU studies in a globalizing world and refers to the strategies priorities of the EU Global strategy 2016. EURASUA presents an equal opportunity for capacity building of all partner institutions with its shared domain of ideas, educational know how and resources, managed through transparent procedures and empowering of all stakeholders. The project activities include the elaboration of original, innovative and methodologically grounded modules and courses on European Studies, upgrade and modernization of existing courses and developing unique ones addressing regional cooperation. The project envisages a coherent plan of training, expert meetings, joint development of teaching materials (in the framework of 3 core modules each containing 4-5 courses at both the B.A. and M.A. level), their piloting in India and China, additional extracurricular activities and the dissemination and exploitation of the project’s results that will make the new teaching content a permanent part of the curriculum in the two partner countries. All that will widen the dialogue between Europe and Asia in the framework of recent EU documents encouraging such collaboration especially through academic ties, joint research projects and students and staff mobility and exchanges.

GLOBUS critically assesses the EU’s impact on justice in a global system characterised by uncertainty, risk and ambiguity. GLOBUS defines a new research agenda for the study of the EU’s global role. This agenda directs attention to underlying political and structural challenges to global justice that are prior to the distributive problem, as well as to the fact that what is just is contested both by theorists and policy makers. GLOBUS provides in depth knowledge of how the EU proceeds to promote justice within the specific fields of climate change, trade, development, asylum/migration and security while also speaking to the key horizontal issues of gender and human rights within each of these fields. Rather than focusing on a single dimension GLOBUS develops three different conceptions of justice. This nuanced conceptual scheme allows GLOBUS to address the multifaceted challenge of justice, and to specify the EU’s real impact. GLOBUS takes heed of the reality of “the foreign will” through intense engagement with partners outside Europe. This provides a ‘reality check’ of the limits and potential for the EU’s future place in a multi-polar order. The three conceptions of justice as non-dominance, as impartiality and as mutual recognition all have limitations as they prioritise some challenges to global justice over others. These limitations are important in order to empirically discern inhibiting factors for global political justice– such as power, unequal competences and the prevailing ‘system of states’ – as well as in order to specify how the EU contributes to justice. In order to develop a feasible model of justice promotion, we return to theory when data is collected and revise and amend the analytical model. We further factor in the viewpoints and experience of practitioners and stakeholders, GLOBUS provides policy-relevant recommendations that take into consideration ideal requirements while at the same time not losing sight of the realities of power.