Melbourne University being stupid
CERC closing at the end of the year
It is with regret that I inform the recipients of the CERC Bulletin that CERC, the only Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Australia, will be closed at the end of 2009. There are many good experiences to reflect on and these will feature in CERC’s last Annual Newsletter, which will be sent out with the CERC Bulletin before the end of the year.
Over twenty years, CERC has provided both the physical and virtual hubs of the largest network of scholars, government officials and the public interested in Europe in Australia. We have held very successful public seminar series, international conferences and produced excellent research publications and our Working Papers Series.
We have had extensive relations with government, the EU and the media, important community outreach and excellent knowledge transfer activities government.
For many years, CERC has been an important destination in Australia for visiting scholars and officials from Europe and we have welcomed visiting scholars and postgraduate scholars.
CERC established an excellent reputation in providing research support, training and networks to a broad range of scholars across many disciplines including political science, history, education, economics, law, cultural studies and languages.
Over the last twenty years, the University, the Australian and international scholarly community and thousands of students, the public and community and specialised groups and business have benefited from CERC’s a situation of which we can be proud.
It has been a great privilege for all of us at CERC to work with so many committed people. It has been an honour to serve.
Assoc. Prof. Philomena Murray
Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
Director, Contemporary Europe Research Centre www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne
CERC cost maybe $100,000 per year, so less than one senior University bureaucrat. It built connections between scholars across the world and across disciplines. It built connections between the University of Melbourne and the wider community of Melbourne. This decision is disgraceful.
It is with regret that I inform the recipients of the CERC Bulletin that CERC, the only Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Australia, will be closed at the end of 2009. There are many good experiences to reflect on and these will feature in CERC’s last Annual Newsletter, which will be sent out with the CERC Bulletin before the end of the year.
Over twenty years, CERC has provided both the physical and virtual hubs of the largest network of scholars, government officials and the public interested in Europe in Australia. We have held very successful public seminar series, international conferences and produced excellent research publications and our Working Papers Series.
We have had extensive relations with government, the EU and the media, important community outreach and excellent knowledge transfer activities government.
For many years, CERC has been an important destination in Australia for visiting scholars and officials from Europe and we have welcomed visiting scholars and postgraduate scholars.
CERC established an excellent reputation in providing research support, training and networks to a broad range of scholars across many disciplines including political science, history, education, economics, law, cultural studies and languages.
Over the last twenty years, the University, the Australian and international scholarly community and thousands of students, the public and community and specialised groups and business have benefited from CERC’s a situation of which we can be proud.
It has been a great privilege for all of us at CERC to work with so many committed people. It has been an honour to serve.
Assoc. Prof. Philomena Murray
Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
Director, Contemporary Europe Research Centre www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne
CERC cost maybe $100,000 per year, so less than one senior University bureaucrat. It built connections between scholars across the world and across disciplines. It built connections between the University of Melbourne and the wider community of Melbourne. This decision is disgraceful.