Objectives

1. To study cultural Europeanism and its transatlantic networks: to analyse its institutionalisation process and the education proposals submitted by the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education, UNESCO and the Council of Europe; to verify if it is covered by school syllabi and to examine the students’ attitude towards European values and cultural identity.
2. To study Europeanism in the confessional sphere and its transatlantic networks: to analyse the debate and the initiatives which emerged in the inter-war period and during the Cold War within the different Catholic, Protestant and ecumenical communities; to examine the cooperation networks established between American and European Churches and to study their impact on the emergence of confessional youth organisations as well as on cultural and religious tourism in Europe.
3. To study the transatlantic networks of Europeanism in the Hispanic context: to analyse the role of those Spaniards who served as decisive bridges between America and Europe; to examine the cooperation relations established between Europe and Ibero-America (MERCOSUR, SICA and the Pacific Alliance), by highlighting the influence of the European integration process in all kinds of fields such as human rights, territorial cooperation or market integration.
4. To study Eurosceptical narratives: to delve into their origins, in the intergovernmental model of the Western Union and the Council of Europe, in order to analyse their effect on Great Britain through a hemerographic study of the British and the Spanish press with the aim of examining how the position of the United Kingdom towards European matters evolved in the period which goes from the first referendum (1976) to Brexit (2016).