Department of European Studies (DES) was established in December 2009 in the campus of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal to further the University’s commitment and belief in the sans-border education in the interest of humanity. The objective of the Centre is to develop and broaden the Indo-EU relations by sharing each other’s strengths with the help of educational enterprise, fostering institutional partnerships between universities, leading to a mutually beneficial exchange of information and enhancement of common human knowledge