The Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS) was created in 2001 at the University of Bremen as part of the transnational worldwide network of "Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence" aiming to promote European studies. It serves as an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and students of Bremen University engaged in learning, teaching and research on European integration and enlargement. It fosters international exchanges with partner universities from Barcelona to Goteborg and from Belfast to Moscow. CEuS is one of the founding members of the regional Bremer Europazentrum e.V. (BEZ e.V.), established in 2004, and of EuropaPunktBremen, the Europe Direct-Information Centre, opened in 2007 in the historic centre of the Hanseatic City of Bremen - a lively forum for debating "Europa in Bremen".