The Miami-Florida  European Union Center of Excellence, (EUCE), a consortium of Florida International University (FIU) and the University of Miami (UM), was established in the Fall of 2001 through a grant from the European Commission through its Delegation in Washington, DC.

The Miami-Florida EUCE,  is jointly administered through the Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies (FIU) and the Jean Monnet Chair (UM).

The mission of the Miami-Florida EUCE, is to promote teaching, research, and outreach activities relating to the EU. To accomplish this mission, the Miami-Florida  EUCE, facilitates the development of new courses on the EU, provides for financial assistance to graduate students and faculty pursuing research on topics related to the EU, holds academic conferences on EU matters, sponsors public lectures featuring EU speakers, and conducts outreach workshops for educators, journalists and media professionals, and the greater Miami business community.