Professor Dr. Wolfgang Wessels has received the University Award in the category "Research" for his outstanding academic achievement.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels is chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science at the University of Cologne since 1994 and was awarded an Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair in 2011. In 2007 he was awarded the Jean Monnet Award in gold and in 2011 the UACES Award for Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary European Studies. His priorities in teaching and research include the political system of the European Union, the role of the EU in the international system, the deepening and widening of the EU, modes of governance and theories and strategies of European integration. Prof. Wessels is coeditor of the "Jahrbuch der Europäischen Union" (32th Edition) and the "Europa von A-Z, Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration" (12th Edition) and has published widely in leading Journals and edited volumes. Prof. Wessels is currently publishing a book on the European Council.
He is engaged in several research and teaching networks: he is chairman of the executive board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP, Berlin) and of the Trans European PoliticalStudies Association (TEPSA, Brussels). Since 2009 he is vice-president of the German consortium of the Turkish-German University. Since 1981 he is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Brugge and Natolin. Prof. Wessels has coordinated several research projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Fritz Thyssen and Volkswagen Foundations as well as by the European Commission. Presently he is coordinator of the Erasmus Academic Network “LISBOAN-researching and teaching the Treaty of Lisbon”, the“EXACT” Marie Curie Initial Training Network and the “Observatory of Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty (OPAL)”.

The official award ceremony took place during the annual reception of the Rector of the University of Cologne, on February 02, 2015.

Congratulations!