Abstract
This article aims to analyse the Jean Monnet programme as a soft power instrument of the European Union to achieve its objectives in the international arena. This research, through a quantitative and comparative analysis, explores the tendencies of the Jean Monnet Programme in terms of number of Jean Monnet projects per year in the countries, which have benefitted the most from the programme. From this study, it has emerged that regions neighbouring the European Union have trends very different from other third countries that are also active participants in the Jean Monnet Programme.
Highlights
Since 2014 the Erasmus plus programme is the core instrument that the European Union has adopted in the field of education and youth
The data for the quantitative analysis have been obtained from the Jean Monnet directory, an online tool created by the European Commission, where it is possible to find the Jean Monnet projects financed by the European Union since the Jean Monnet programme exists [2]
The analysis of this article enabled to understand as the Jean Monnet Programme turned from an instrument to reinforce the European integration internally to an instrument reinforcing the external dimension of the European Union
Summary
Since 2014 the Erasmus plus programme is the core instrument that the European Union has adopted in the field of education and youth. The Erasmus plus programme gathered all the previous European programmes in the field of education and youth and it is composed of three main directions or “key activities”, as they are called in the EU documents, which are: mobility, cooperation for innovation and support for policy reforms. This means that the sub-programmes of Erasmus plus are classified into these three main categories.
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