This Jean Monnet Module on “EU and Environmental Health: Policy, Achievements and main Challenges” aims at offering a tailor-made course on EU policies and concrete actions in the field of environmental health, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as addressing “all the physical, chemical and biological factors to a person, and all the related factors that can potentially affect health”. In other words, this course will focus on the EU’s regional and international answers to some of the most urgent and common global issues linking environment and health, including chemical hazards, air pollution, climate change, water quality, plastics use,… to name a few.
The innovative aspect of the proposed course, and its added-value in terms of teaching, is that, while in students may have learned about the EU institutions and its policy setting in various fields (e.g., economy, environment, health,...) in this class, professors particularly aim at demonstrating the interwovenness of EU’s policies, actions, and challenges towards human health and environmental quality.
From the course, students will learn about the added-value of linking environment and health measures in the context of the EU’s involvement in regional and global affairs. It also aims to develop the understanding of the complexity of the issues, promotes critical analysis capabilities of previous policies and finally enables students to design innovative solutions for environmental protection and human health improvement.
The overall project is based on three major pillars:
- A semester-based seminar on “EU and Environmental Health: Policy, Achievements and main Challenges”
- A travelling exhibition on this topic, created, organized and managed by student
- An academic research project on “EU’s involvement in environmental health in Asia” (conducted by the two responsible professors)
莫內計畫的「歐盟與環境衛生：政策、成就與主要挑戰」主要是針對歐盟在環境衛生領域的政策和具體行動方面提供相關的課程，根據世界衛生組織（WHO）的定義:“所有物理、化學和生物的因素以及其他相關因素都可能會影響人類的健康”。換句話說，本課程將側重於歐盟區域和國際上在環境和健康領域相關的某些較緊急和全球常見的問題，包括化學危害、空氣污染、氣候變遷、水質、塑料使用等等。
這門創新的特殊課程以及教學中的附加價值學生或許已經學習過歐盟的機構與歐盟在不同領域的政策（經濟、環境、衛生等），儘管如此，在這門課程中，教授的主要目標是在於展示歐盟政策、行動以及挑戰對於人類的健康和環境的品質。
從這課程，學生將學歐盟區域和國際事務對於環境和衛生相關方面的附加值。本課程以培養理解議題的複雜性程度，促進對於之前政策的批判性分析能力以及學生能夠設計針對環境保護和人類健康改進的創新解決方案為目標。
整體計畫基於三個主要基礎：
1. 學期研討會「歐盟與環境衛生：政策、成就與主要挑戰」課程
2. 巡迴展覽由學生創建、組建以及管理的議題
3. 歐盟在亞洲環境衛生參與的學術研究計畫 （以兩位負責教授進行）