Prof Neeta Inamdar is the Head of the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES). She leads a team of young scholars in European Studies with multidisciplinary approach and focuses on research in education policies, practices and harmonization efforts in Europe and other parts of the world. Her research interests are focused on people-to-people connect enabled by education (at both school and tertiary levels).
She held a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Economic Integration and European Identity awarded by the European Union (2017 - 2020) She was the Principal Coordinator of an Erasmus+ Capacity Building project in Higher Education (CBHE) on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) with three European and three Indian partners. She also led the Jean Monnet Project on EU Higher Education Policy - The Bologna Process and Internationalization of Indian Universities. She offered a Jean Monnet module on Cultural Analysis and European Identity (2014 - 2017).
She also oversees the activities of Manipal Universal Press (MUP) as the Chief Editor.