The Jean Monnet Project “The European Union in North Carolina” at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will offer two in-depth Study Tours to primary and secondary school teachers and Community College educators from across NC. These educators are in need of appropriate content and effective tools to teach relevant issues facing the EU to their pupils and students. The Study Tours will encompass two themes: “The European Union Today: The EU as a Global and Local Actor” and “The EU Citizen: Issues Facing the Contemporary European”. These themes will guide the content of campus briefings by JMCE Key Staff Members and the Jean Monnet Chair and at the local site visits with both Key Staff and community experts with ties to the EU. The Tours will create a hybrid, equal-status professional development space in which academics, educators, and local hosts share and develop knowledge alongside one another.Deliverables will include a Study Tour Web Portal (jmce.unc.edu), open to the public. Information about the Tours will be housed here including each participant’s newly created lesson plan or course module, allowing teachers nationwide to access and implement the tools. Two extensive evaluation reports (pre- and post-Tour) will result. Intangible results include knowledge gained about the EU, its institutions, the European integration process, and a greater understanding of the EU citizen. The Tours will create positive affinity for the EU, creating stronger and lasting ties between the US and the EU. The newly gained knowledge and created pedagogical tools will benefit at least 1200 pupils and students directly after the Tours plus many more as the participants continue to teach the EU. In the next five years, we estimate over 7200 pupils and students will benefit. The Web Portal, Twitter, Facebook, and the JMCE Newsletter will be used to disseminate and exploit results thereby reaching far beyond NC’s borders.