Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan

Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan has been a senior lecturer in European politics in the Department of Government, UCC, since 2001. In 2025, she was awarded another Jean Monnet Teacher Training grant focusing exclusively on active European citizenship education at the post-primary level. This came after she received a double award in 2021 with a Jean Monnet Chair in Active European Citizenship and one of only 20 EU-wide Jean Monnet Teacher Training grants.

In 2026, she was asked to join the Advisory Board set up by the European Commission's DG EAC to help devise:

• EU-level Guidelines on Democratic Citizenship Education, addressing pedagogy, curriculum content, assessment, teacher education, and whole-school approaches, among others;
• An EU Competence Framework on the European Dimension of Citizenship Education, building on the Council of Europe’s RFCDC and (possibly) aligning with the wider EU “Competence Framework family.

Emmanuelle is also the Director of the UCC Hub in Active European Citizenship – https://www.ucc.ie/en/government-and-politics/hub-in-active-european-citizenship/.. The Hub is the home for all the programmes and activities emerging from the Jean Monnet Chair and teacher training. It is working at developing a continuum of education on active citizenship in the European Union, starting from local to national, European, global, media and digital. 

 https://www.facebook.com/HubEuropCitizen/