Prof. Dr Ingo Mose, geographer and regional scientist at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Professorship for "Europeanisation and Sustainable Spatial Development".
Mose received the Europe-wide award as part of the EU's Life Long Learning Programme. This is already the third Monnet professorship at the University of Oldenburg. It will run for three years and is associated with funding of almost 65,000 euros.
The European Community has been funding chairs at European universities since 1989 as part of the "Jean Monnet Project". The professorship, named after Jean Monnet (1888-1979), one of the founding fathers of the European Union, is linked to the consistent European orientation of research and teaching. The Jean Monnet Chairs serve to broaden knowledge and reflection on issues of European integration.
Mose's professorship focuses on issues of sustainable spatial development in Europe. With the financial support, Mose will realise teaching events, international conferences and publications that focus on territorial protection in Europe, the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas in the EU and the role of the EU for spatial planning and spatial development in Europe.
Mose studied geography, German studies and politics in Osnabrück and Oldenburg. He then worked as a research assistant in the subject of geography in Vechta, where he also completed his doctorate and habilitation. Lectureships and guest lectureships have taken him to the University of Bremen, Keele University (UK), the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna and, most recently, Kingston University London. Before accepting an appointment at the University of Oldenburg in 2005, Mose was a university lecturer for regional sciences at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at Vechta University of Applied Sciences.