Firmly believing that the major objectives of the Jean Monnet activities require dialogue between scholars and the public, the Jean Monnet Module Anthropology of European Union (AEUM) was designed as a facilitation instrument, consisting of both academic and policy-oriented content. 

The intervention proposed by the AEUM team is twofold: to integrate research and teaching on social and cultural processes of Europeanisation on one hand, and to publicly disseminate anthropological knowledge on social complexity and cultural multiplicity of EU through a series of public events, on the other. The main aim of the first type of intervention is to add value to the academic realm – to use the Module as motivational infrastructure for refocusing graduate students and young professionals on European issues, in order to enable them to write and defend their master’s theses on topics relevant to the anthropology of the European Union. The second type of intervention aims to inform and engage the public – through evidence-based lectures, seminars, debates, and workshops for extra-academic stakeholders – of the common misconceptions and instrumental construals regarding understanding the relation of Europeanisation and nation states and national identities, with a focus on Serbia.

The AEUM consists of specifically designed courses and seminars (Anthropology of the European Union 1 in the first semester, and Anthropology of the European Union 2 in the second, followed by a seminar on master’s thesis topic selection, each weighing 5 ECTS) at MA program of Ethnology and Anthropology. Moreover, a number of open lectures will be organized for all master’s students at Faculty of Philosophy (including students of philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, education, adult education, archaeology, art history, and the classics), as well as debates between master’s-level students and members of media representatives, political parties, NGOs, and civil servants coming mainly from ministries, agencies and offices.