Rethinking and Reshaping the EU’s democracy support in its Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood

Project Information

SHAPEDEM-EU

Grant agreement ID: 101059811

DOI

10.3030/101059811

Project closed

EC signature date 2 June 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 748 757,50

EU contribution

€ 2 748 757,50

Coordinated by

JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Report on the kick-off workshop

Report on the kickoff workshop

Working paper on democracy & democracy support

Working paper on democracy democracy support

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Webpage Surface and SHAPEDEM-EU Logo

Webpage Surface and SHAPEDEMEU Logo

Publications

Other (22)

Democracy support ‘post-imperial-style’. UK and democracy in EU’s Southern and Eastern neighbourhood

Author(s): Marcin Zubek
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Gender Equality and Democracy Support in Armenia

Author(s): Lilit Hakobyan
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Concepts Manual

Author(s): Christian Achrainer et al.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Digital Transformation as a Double-Edge Sword for Democracy Working paper on digital transformation

Author(s): Anna Osypchuk, Anton Suslov, and Yaroslava Shaporda
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Gender Equality Fellowships Report

Author(s): Lea Konrad, Fabian Schöppner
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The Role of non-EU External Actors in the Eastern and Southern Neighborhoods

Author(s): Ines Arco, Moussa Bourekba
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The Role of non-EU External Actors in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods: The case of Turkey

Author(s): Eduard Soler i Lecha
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

New ideas on democracy support based on local views across the region

Author(s): Elena Korosteleva, Anastasiia Kudlenko
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Europe’s Contested Democracy and Its Impact on the EU’s Democracy Support Policies Toward Its Neighbours

Author(s): Rosa Balfour
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The EU’s approach to Gender Equality and Democracy Support for Refugee Women in Lebanon: Recognising the needs of refugee women and amplifying their voices

Author(s): Amira Elmasry
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Supporting Democracy: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in France, Italy, Sweden, and Poland in the EU’s Neighbourhoods

Author(s): Fijał, Małgorzata, Jan Grzymski, Volodymyr Posviatenko, Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka, Katarzyna Zielińska
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The Role of non-EU External Actors in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods: The case of the United States of America

Author(s): Andrea Dessi, Nona Mikhelidze
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Ambitions for the Future of EU Democracy Support

Author(s): Andrea Gawrich et al.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Saudi Arabia’s autocratic practices in the Mediterranean region (2011-2021)

Author(s): Giulia Daga
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Symbolic Democracy, Strategic Autocracy: The Arab League’s Politics of Legitimacy

Author(s): Moussa Bourekba, Alba Pérez Marginet
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Climate Change as a Cross-Cutting Issue to Gender Equality with Perspectives from the North African Region

Author(s): Khouloud Baghouri
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

China in the EU’s Southern and Eastern Neighbourhoods: The limits of autocracy promotion

Author(s): Inés Arco Escriche
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The Role of the European Union in Gender Equality Support in Ukraine

Author(s): Liliia Antoniuk
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Autocracy Goes Global: Inside the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy Toolkit

Author(s): Murad Nasibov
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

The EU pushes back a new democracy plan: A mistake? A review of the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy

Author(s): Richard Youngs, Elena Ventura
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Gender Equality and Democracy Support in Georgia: A Spotlight on LGBTQI+

Author(s): Ekaterine Skhiladze
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Gender Equality and Democracy Support in Palestine

Author(s): Claudia Saba
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SHAPEDEM-EU

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World

Author(s): Christian Achrainer, Michelle Pace
Published in: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JCMS.13629

SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN FRANCE’S FOREIGN POLICY

Author(s): Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka
Published in: Politeja, 2025, ISSN 2391-6737
Publisher: Jagiellonian University
DOI: 10.12797/POLITEJA.22.2025.96.2.09

Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Author(s): Daniela Huber, Anna Khakee, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Youssef Cherif, Silvia Ferabolli, Moch Faisal Karim, Elena Korosteleva
Published in: International Studies Perspectives, 2025, ISSN 1528-3577
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/ISP/EKAF003