Just before Christmas, on 22 December 2015, researchers of the University of Muenster (WWU), with a common intrest in collaborative Euopean research and teaching met in the Senate Hall to launch the WWU Centre for Europe. All attending researcher are involved in research and/or teaching with European partners, networks and consortia. The intention of a WWU Centre for Europe is to consolidate the numerous European activities of WWU scientists and to engage directly with European decision makers. With this mandate in mind, a permanent liaison office of the WWU will be established in Brussels. The BRussels office is foinf to raise awareness of WWU and its excellent research in the heart of Europe. Elected spokesperson of the board of the WWU Centre for Europe is Jörg Becker, Professor of Information Systems and Information Management and currently Vice-Rector for Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance.