EURUS Professor Joan DeBardeleben has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood. This chair will be funded with a grant of 50,000 Euros for a three-year period (2016-2019). The Jean Monnet Chair was first established and funded in 2011. Renewed funding will promote the continuing development of its highly successful role as a focal point for teaching and public reflection regarding the EU’s role as a transformative force in Eastern Europe and EU relations with Russia. The thematic focus of the Chair will be extended to include broader issues of the EU’s foreign policy role, European integration and security, and the importance of enlargement as a key element of the EU’s past (and potentially future) eastern policy. The chair’s teaching program includes two new courses, a distance learning course, continuing classroom links with European students, co-teaching with European experts, a semi-annual seminar where students whose research relates to the topic of the Chair to share their research findings, and a regular roundtable debating series that will facilitate interaction between scholars, practitioners, civil society, and students. In addition, the grant will support a variety of outreach activities, including two policy workshops, a major conference on EU enlargement, and research publications.