Foreword

• Author: Rubén García Servet
• Pages: 13-20

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Foreword

It is an honour for me to write the foreword to this Pocket

Book, which is published by way of proceedings of an academic

and informative initiative to promote European debate under

the title “Jean Monnet Module: The EU and the Mediterranean

in light of the Global EU Security Strategy: Future challenges in

neighbourhood, security and defence policies, ThEUMed”.

The publication being presented today gathers and puts into

context the results of this initiative, approved by the European

Commission for the period 2017-2020, with activities centred on

the southern area of the EU. Each year, the Module has consisted

of a 60-hour intensive course and two other activities, an Annual

Conference and a Round Table.

The aim of these activities is to provide students from the

Complutense University of Madrid and other foreign universities,

as well as other academic institutions, professionals and members

of civil society with specialised knowledge and training focused

on the analysis of the European Union’s cooperation policy with

the Mediterranean, both on the eastern and southern flanks. In

addition, it has intentionally sought to encourage networking

among participants and open up lines of debate and research on

the role of the European Union in the area.

However, the main target audience has been young

professionals, providing a learning and enrichment framework

for student researchers and professionals in the field of analysis

of EU policy and its role in the Mediterranean, enabling a

comprehensive analysis of the links between the EU and the

Southern Neighbourhood, with a special focus on the European

Neighbourhood Policy and the impact of energy supply and the

environment on security and defence.