The EU awards the Jean Monnet EUDEFENCE Chair in European Safety and Defence to Nebrija College | Atalayar

The escalation of stress in Europe attributable to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the issue of European vitality dependence, hybrid warfare, using cybernetic know-how for disinformation, synthetic intelligence and the growing militarisation of house are solely the spearhead of a brand new worldwide geopolitical restructuring by which ideas similar to safety and defence are evolving by leaps and bounds. Thus, the European Union has awarded the Jean Monnet EUDEFENCE Chair to Nebrija College, the primary European Safety and Defence Chair awarded in Spain and the second at continental stage. Directed by Juan Cayón Peña, Jean Monnet EUDEFENCE goals to contribute to the dissemination of safety and defence points within the European Union throughout the College and most people. 

For its director, this new chair, along with the lately inaugurated Division of Safety and Defence throughout the College of Legislation and Worldwide Relations, “consolidates Nebrija College as a reference establishment” within the area of Safety and Defence.

“Nebrija College has been working for years on the brand new challenges of postmodernity. We have been the primary to have a Bachelor’s Diploma in Safety, which has been accomplished with varied Grasp’s programmes and the PhD in Safety and Danger and Battle Evaluation. Because of the Jean Monnet EUDEFENCE Chair, we have now achieved a coaching supply that’s unparalleled in Spain and really distinguished on the worldwide scene,” acknowledges Cayón.

Co-financed by the European Union and the Nebrija College, the Jean Monnet EUDEFENCE Chair is geared toward all those that are fascinated about studying in regards to the altering actuality of the world round us and, above all, who need to enrich their information of European safety and defence.

The course is open to all events, freed from cost and on-line, and gives entry to certification.

The instructing, which is able to encompass 120 hours per yr, will all the time be in digital format. It will likely be run by the group led by Cayón, with the participation of Dr Rogelio Pérez Bustamante and Dr Julio Guinea Bonillo, each famend consultants on European points. A weekly three-hour session will probably be organised by which college students will benefit from the corresponding grasp class and can perform actions on official paperwork, research, technical discussions, press releases and different vectors of information of the fact of European safety and defence. All interested students and teachers can register free of charge by filling in this form. 

College students ought to complement their information with the seminars organised by the Chair, one per semester, by which high-level personalities will take part to counterpoint their all-embracing imaginative and prescient of the topic, “so essential when coping with advanced points similar to people who decide present geopolitics and the tensions that have an effect on Safety and Defence within the European setting”, concludes Cayón.