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Major grant for national research centre at UC
Published by the Communications and Development Department
6 November 2002
The University of Canterbury’s National Centre for Research on Europe has been awarded a grant of €20,000 or about $NZ40,000 from the European Commission to conduct a national survey on New Zealand public perceptions and awareness of the EU.
The grant has been made through the EU’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture .
The survey is a core part of the project “Rediscovering Europe”: New Zealand Elite, Mass and Media Perceptions of the EU” currently run at the NCRE by Dr. Natalia Chaban.
Dr Chaban says the changing profile of New Zealand society underlines the necessity for analysis of contemporary general public perceptions of Europe, “one of the dominant economic, political and cultural” forces impacting on New Zealand.
“Data generated by the survey will have a direct influence on public policy development through a more informed consideration and acceptance of different initiatives from the EU, and on behalf of New Zealand. The data could also be used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the European Commission Delegation to New Zealand.
The NCRE is now in the process of selecting an appropriate survey organisation with a view to conducting the survey in early 2003.
The Centre, New Zealand’s only centre for research on Europe, was opened in 2000 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Phil Goff, with the objectives of raising the research profile of Europe among students and staff at Canterbury, and nationally.
In February, the Centre received a grant of $500,000 from the Commission of the European Union to develop research into the European Union, within New Zealand. In July, the Centre was awarded a $90,000 grant by the New Zealand –France Friendship Fund for travel scholarships.
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