Director of the EU Law Institute of the College Prof. Zhang Tong recently won funding from the E.U Jean Monnet Programme for the second time after successfully applying for and accomplishing this programme since year 2011.

According to the Department of Education and Culture of the E.U. Committee on 29 July, there were 611 programmes competing this year, out of which 129 passed after the E.U. Review Committee's strict assessing procedures. The passing rate was about 20%. Zhang Tong's programme gained a score of 89/100.

Zhang also won the title of Jean Monnet Chair Professor due to her outstanding academic achievements on the integration of the Europe and the teaching and research of European law. By far, Zhang is one of the only two law scholars who have been awarded this distinguish title in China. She is one of the earliest scholars who have been working on the E.U. law teaching and research. Her main research field is legal regionalisation and European private law unification.

The executive period of this programme is from 1 Sept, 2015 to 31 Aug, 2018. It is mainly to boost teaching, research and international cooperation and exchange on the European integration and the EU law. Team members include A/Prof. Zhang Xuezhe and A/Prof. Xu Yan from the College, Prof. Zhang Shujing from the Business School of CUPL, A/Prof. Lan Hua from School of International Law of CUPL, Prof. Reiner Schulze from the Minster University and Prof. Thomas Moellers from the Augsburg University.