Європейський Союз та його сусідство. Мережа задля посилення ролі ЄС на Східних кордонах

ENACTED associates research, teaching, debate and dissemination activities in the area of European Studies, in the framework of a network of 12 partners (8 universities and 4 NGOs) from 6 countries (Romania, Hungary, Poland, Belarus, Republicof Moldova, Ukraine). The general aim of the project is the consolidation and promotion of excellence in research and teaching of European Studies, particularly with regards to the topic of the EU actorness, by integrating partners of the network, as well as increasing their role in the society, through the following specific objectives:

1. the creation of a favourable context (multinational and pluri-disciplinary) for strengthening the cooperation between universities and NGOs in the study of the role of the EU actorness in the eastern border regions;
2. the better understanding of the specific realities that the societies of the countries located on both sides of the EU’s eastern border are confronted with;
3. the promotion of excellence in teaching and research at the network level and the increase of visibility and relevance of the resources and the results of the partners at local, regional and national levels by providing new research directions and novel research methods, up-to-date didactic competences, increased normative relevance of academic research, new practices for cooperation, enhanced transfer of knowledge between the partners of the network in particular towards the institutions with limited experience and/or understanding in the field of European Studies, chiefly with respect to relevance of the EU’s actorness the eastern neighbourhood of the EU;
4.  the formation and the development of competences for the young academics, through knowledge transfer to the new generation of academics;
5. the stronger role of universities in fostering dialogue and partnership with civil society by integrating in the network NGOs, by organising training programmes, debates on topics relevant to the study of the EU’s eastern neighbourhood regions and by a wider dissemination of the results of the project;
6. the increased cooperation between universities and policy-makers/professionals dealing with EU-related matters by providing trainings, joint events, publication and dissemination of the research results;
7. strengthening the European dimension of the academic offer available within the network, increasing the attractiveness of European Studies as a field of research and study and a wider dissemination of knowledge about the EU’s actorness in its Eastern neighbourhood to the younger generations by producing new courses and programmes.