欧洲研究中心于2009年10月由同济大学校领导批复后正式建立，现任主任杨烨博士，政治学与国际关系学院教授，上海市俄罗斯东欧中亚学会副会长兼秘书长，上海市国际关系学会与上海市欧洲学会理事，主要研究领域为中东欧研究、欧盟治理研究、政府职能比较研究、国际公共事务研究等。
中心的主要研究方向为：欧盟机构与欧盟治理研究、欧盟共同外交与安全政策研究、中东欧国家研究、中欧关系、欧美关系等。研究中心的主要任务是：承担本学院欧洲问题方面的各类课程、承接各类欧洲问题研究项目、组织与欧洲国家及其它国家学术界以及国内欧洲研究领域的学术交流。
中心的专职研究人员有杨烨教授、沈洪波副教授、蒋一澄博士、宋黎磊博士、吕蕊博士、罗鹏部博士等。研究中心聘请德国波恩大学终身教授辜学武博士、原上海市欧洲学会会长伍贻康教授等国内外知名的欧洲问题专家为兼职研究员。
中心除负责组织本中心的欧洲问题研究与学术交流外，还将作为组织与协调我校欧洲问题研究机构之间合作与交流的学术平台，努力扩展对外学术交流，快速提升我校欧洲研究在上海市及国内外学术界的影响和地位。
European Study Center (ESCTU)
The European Study Center of Tongji University was formally established in October 2009. The current director is Dr. Emilie Ye, Yang, professor of political science and international relations. She is the Vice President of Shanghai Association of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies, board member of Shanghai Association of International Relations and Shanghai Institute of European Studies. Her main research fields are: Central and East European Studies, the EU Governance Studies, International Public Affairs, and etc.
The main research interests of ESCTU include: The EU Institutions & Governance Studies; the EU Common Foreign & Security Policies, Central & East European Studies; China-Europe Relationship; US and Europe Relationship. The main tasks of ESCTU are: opens a series of courses on European Studies for the graduated and under-graduated students, undertakes various types of academic activities on European issues. The ESCTU is also a coordinator of all the institutes on European Studies of Tongji University on academic cooperation with the institutes from abroad.
In the Center, there are some full-time researchers: Dr.Professor. Ye, Ynag, Dr. Hong-Bo Shen (associate Professor) , Dr. Li-Lei, Song, Dr. Peng-Bu, Luo, Dr. Rui Lv, Dr. Yi-Cheng Jiang, and etc. The ESCTU has hired Dr. Xue-Wu, Gu, a tenured professor at University of Bonn, Germany, Professor Yi-Kang WU, the former President of Shanghai Institute of Europe Studies and other well-known experts in European Studies as part-time researchers.