Neeta Inamdar is a Professor and Head of the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. She was instrumental in establishing MCES in 2009 and since then, has led it through the years to make it a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence that offers the only master programme in European Studies in India. Though interested in various aspects of the European economy, society, and culture, she is more drawn towards education in Europe – both school and higher education as reflected in the projects led by her in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and Bologna Process and Internationalization of Higher Education. She believes in people-to-people connect as a means for peaceful coexistence and focuses on research in educational connect between India and Europe. She has been a recipient of the Jean Monnet module (2014-2017) and Jean Monnet Chair (2017-2020). | Praveen Shetty is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Management, Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal. His research area is Intercultural Communications focused on multiculturalism and diversity. He teaches communication skills in English and Intercultural Studies at MIT, Manipal. He also teaches select modules at Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES) on topics related to European identity, theories of literature and culture. He is also a recipient of Jean Monnet Module tilted Building Bridges: Indo-European Intercultural Dynamics and is the Coordinator of the Centre for Intercultural Studies and Dialogue, MAHE, Manipal. The Centre is engaged in activities related to intercultural studies that include summer and winter schools, academic modules in the field, and workshops on intercultural communication.| Priya Vijaykumar Poojary is a Lecturer and a research scholar at MCES, Manipal. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from MAHE and a second Master’s in International Relations from Metropolitan University Prague (MUP). Her teaching and research interest include European politics, policy-making in the European Union, EU’s foreign policy, India-EU relations, migration governance, and Higher Education Regionalism. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies titled The Dynamics of Higher Education Regionalism in Europe and Asia. She has been a visiting fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and a beneficiary of Erasmus+ mobility. She is also the Coordinator of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI)