The experience of teaching EU studies for years in a very diverse and challenging post-conflict environment will be described in this paper. As the author has worked for many years as a teacher of EU studies at the International Business College Mitrovica in Kosovo the experience will be a valuable insight into the challenges and possibilities of teaching in Kosovo. Teaching in such an environment to students which belong to very different groups is an everyday challenge. As IBCM had two campuses and students were divided by ethnic lines belonging to either the Northern or Southern campus it was necessary to shape every lecture accordingly. In general every country has its learning outcomes achieved by comparing EU and its national system, e.g. in Kosovo it is not possible. As Albanians living in Kosovo recognize it as a sovereign country whilst Serbs consider it to be still part of Serbia it is hard to have a common standpoint. Kosovo is in fact administered by the UN mission called UNMIK which has after the self-proclamation of Kosovo independence in 2008 given a broad mandate to the EU run EULEX mission. Another challenge is that many students are in fact professionals which have started working for UN/EU years before enrolling on their studies, they never achieved any EU related education but want to earn a degree in order to proceed professionally. They know how EU works but do not understand the wider concept and tools of EU policies. Thus the permanent challenge of aligning the syllabus to different legal backgrounds, various students and the changing role of EU on the field is an everyday activity.
