This project will consolidate and enhance teaching in European integration at Maynooth University and in Ireland. It will do so by expanding significantly the range of EU-centred courses taught at Maynooth and by introducing innovative new pedagogic elements to the curriculum, including an intensive fieldtrip to the EU institutions in Brussels and EU Negotiation Simulation games in Dublin and Brussels. The project proceeds from a perceived need to produce critical, informed and constructive teaching and more robust civic engagement on the EU in Ireland. The impact of the financial crisis and protracted austerity has been profound and one consequence has been a growing trend toward mistrust of the European Union, and (as elsewhere in the EU), a turn toward populist Eurosceptic political parties. Knowledge and information deficits have characterised the Irish public engagement with the EU for many years. They encourage misunderstanding and misconceptions about European integration and its significance for member states and citizens.This problem is now an acute one across the EU but doubly the case in Ireland in which referendums are frequent, and likely to be necessitated by further steps towards deepening of the Eurozone. The teaching and associated activities encompassed within the Action will pay significant attention to EMU but will also highlight the significance of enlargement, neighbourhood and CSDP policies. Recent events in Ukraine remind us of the necessity of an active EU enlargement policy and academics, students, and civil society will benefit from this sustained engagement with these topics. The project will significantly expand the range of EU activity pursued at Maynooth University, including teaching and mentoring of students and young professionals, online debate and discussion forums, significant engagement with practitioners, and achieving appropriate media and social media exploitation synergies.