InvigoratEU: Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe
Since January 1, 2024, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs has become a member of the European Commission Horizon grant project "InvigoratEU: Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe" project. The primary question the project seeks to address is: "How can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe’s resilience?" To answer this question, the project has set three main goals:
- The first goal is to investigate HOW TO REFORM the EU’s enlargement strategy in a new geopolitical phase, HOW TO RESPOND to other actors’ geopolitical ambitions in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Western Balkans, and HOW TO REBUILD the EU’s foreign policy arsenal in view of a new era of military threats (triple “R” approach) combining the modernisation and geopolitical logics of EU enlargement, leading to new data – e.g. a public opinion survey in Ukraine, a set of scenarios, an external influence index (Russia, China, Turkey), and a social policy compliance and cohesion scoreboard.
- The second goal is to elaborate an EVIDENCE-BASED, FORWARDLOOKING VISION FOR THE EU’s POLITICAL AGENDA AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CO-DESIGNING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL TOOLBOX (i.e. two tailor-made toolkits), together with InvigoratEU´s Expert Hub, Civil Society (CS) Network, Youth Labs, Workshops for Young Professionals and Policy Debates in a gaming set up, which will result in context-sensitive and actionable policy recommendations for European and national political stakeholders and (young) European citizens in particular.
- The third goal is to deploy a CDE (communication, dissemination and exploitation) strategy AIMING AT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DAY 1 to maximize our scientific, policy and societal impact in invigorating the EU´s enlargement and neighbourhood policies to enhance Europe´s resilience.
Ultimately, InvigoratEU is a deliberately large consortium that respects the diversity of Europe and its political perspectives. Seven out of the eighteen members are from Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Western Balkans (North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), complemented by our Civil Society (CS) Network, which includes nine representatives from all Western Balkan countries, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The project is implemented in cooperation with 18 partners:
- Universitaet Duisburg-Essen (Coordinator)
- Institut fur Europaische Politik EV (Scientific Lead)
- PMC Research Center
- Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
- Asociatia Obsteasca Institutul Pentru Initiative Strategice
- Javna Ustanova Univerzitet Crne Gore Podgorica
- Centar Za Evropske Politike
- Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies Named after Oleksandr Razumkov
- Trans European Policy Studies Association
- Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Istituto Affari Internazionali
- Latvian Institute of International Affairs
- Vilniaus Universitetas
- Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
- Centre D'informacio I Documentacio Internacionals A Barcelona
- Universiteit Maastricht
- Carnegie Europe Foundation
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Published 05 September 2024