This project aims to establish a team of teaching and research staff including young and bilingual (Chinese and English) staff in the team, so that six courses and a series of lectures on EU studies, including the European Integration studies, EU policy studies, especially environmental policy with economics, will be offered at Sichuan University. Meanwhile training courses and seminars / workshops for local government agencies, industries, media and school may also be offered as value-added achievements for the project. The activities and outcomes are as follows:1. To train the young staff and let them become qualified and experienced researchers and professors in EU studies; to help them in the course construction and teaching materials in the establishment of new courses for EU study curricula;2. To create six courses and a series of lectures, seminars and workshops, to construct a multi-media database of related materials so as to involve more students, university staff and other people in the project;3. To expand the CHAIR project to the affiliated School of SCU by way of having some activities with the School so as to familiarize the young kids with European Union;4. To hold lectures and seminars for the students and the teaching staff and to have training courses and workshops / seminars for local government agencies, industries and media so as to impart the research results among the society. 5. To compile a book, publish academic papers, write working papers, deliver conference papers and have presentations at different academic conferences in order to spread the research results among academicians and the public;6. To promote further interdisciplinary research in EU studies.