Mission & History

Our purpose

EUCAnet (Europe Canada Network) is a scholarly platform that facilitates knowledge sharing and allows experts to offer a transatlantic perspective on contemporary issues in Europe and Canada. Through successive projects on topics ranging from migration, democracy,  to memory politics, we provide a space — open both to experts and the public — where ideas can be exchanged. EUCAnet also aims to make scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times of critical needs for evidence-based knowledge and open public debate.

A brief History

  • 2005

     
  • 2007

    EUCAnet goes to Europe

    EUCAnet collaborates with ECSA-C’s Young Researchers and co-organizes a mentoring program at the European University in Florence with co-funding by the Erasmus+ Program of the EU.

     

    2007

  • 2008

     

    Partnering with the Canada Europe Transatlantic Dialogue

    EUCAnet joins the Strategic Knowledge Cluster Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue. It is co-funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This is a partnership with five universities: Carleton University of Ottawa (lead), Dalhousie University, l’Université de Montréal, University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria.

  • 2016

    Partnering with CFGS & Dialogue on Migration

    EUCAnet starts a long-lasting partnership with the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and wins the Erasmus+ award to focus on the project “The Canada Europe Dialogue on Migration (CEDoM)”.

     

    2016

  • 2017

     

    Media Outreach Projects

    EUCAnet wins two Erasmus+awards to support media outreach for European Studies community in Canada:  The ECSA-Cn Jean Monnet project “Building capacity for Canada’s European Studies community: ECSA-C as a research and outreach hub” as well as the “Communication and Media Strategies for EU experts in Canada (MSEUCA)”

  • 2018

    Dialogue on Democracy and Populism

    The “Canada – Europe Dialogue on Democracy: Democratic deficit and the rise of populism in Europe” Jean Monnet project is launched with the support of the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.  EUCAnet enters in a collaboration with the Cedar Trees Initiative 

     

    2018

  • 2019

     

    Focus on Memory Politics and Democracy

    Shifting our focus on the issues of Populism and Democracy and Memory Politics. EUCAnet supports the outreach for the  the SSHRC-funded project  “Populism and its Effects on Liberal Democracy: Minority Rights and Freedom of Speech” and the Jean Monnet Network “European Memory Politics: Populism, Nationalism and the Challenges to a European Memory Culture (EuMePo)”.

  • 2021

    Where we are today

    The SSHRC’s “Democracy and Populism” project merges with “European Memory Politics” into one, now extended thanks to the support from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

     

    2021

Stay tuned for more!