19.03.2025 The European Track

Europe is facing a formidable set of challenges – and our governments and societies need to find the answers that meet them. The historian Adam Tooze describes our age as an age of "polycrisis": everything – politics, geopolitics, war, pandemics, climate change – seems to be coming at us all at once; and if we feel overwhelmed, we're certainly not alone. Disorientation seems to have become a collective status quo, a new norm. But how do we re-orientate ourselves? And how can we build and sustain peaceful, equitable and inclusive societies at a time like this? 

These kinds of questions are at the heart of the European Track – EUPeace's brand-new cross- and interdisciplinary certificate for students enrolled at EUPeace universities – which has been approved for its pilot launch in the academic year 2025/2026. The Track will offer our students the possibility of taking courses from across the disciplinary spectrum, while engaging in virtual and physical mobility between our universities. Tomorrow's European change-makers will be able to gain three certificates – of between 6 and 18 ECTS points – for each of the European Track’s three levels.

The Track will operate slightly differently at our different universities, while embodying EUPeace's unity in diversity. You can find (and share) our general information page here: this will be updated in the coming months with university-specific information. And if you’ve any questions or want to find out how you or your colleagues can contribute to the Track, you’re very welcome to contact Dr. Robert Craig, Coordinator of Work Package 2, at:  eupeace.wp2@uni-giessen.de.