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 (24)

Report on one review paper: new ideas on democracy support based on local views across the region (access at project webpage)
Final comparative paper
Course module and manifesto on EU-Arab relations
Six country reports
Report on non-EU external actors' perceptions in the Southern Neighbourhood case countries

Report on non-EU external actors’ perceptions in the Southern Neighbourhood case countries

Working paper on supporters and contesters of democracy in EUMS
Report on non-EU external actors' perceptions in the Eastern Neighbourhood case countries

Report on non-EU external actors’ perceptions in the Eastern Neighbourhood case countries

Working paper on gender equality
Working paper on digital transformations
Policy briefs/reports (access on project webpage)
Report on the kick-off workshop

Report on the kickoff workshop

Comparative report mapping external actors' capacities

Comparative report mapping external actors’ capacities

Report on policy recommendations
Final comparative report on the feeding and impact of the Democracy Learning Loop
Report on three policy recommendations (one per country, access at project webpage)
Report on retreat and roundtables
Working paper on role of CSOs
Working paper on democracy & democracy support

Working paper on democracy democracy support

Policy paper on international alliances for the EU
Report on the taxonomy of contestation
Report on the 3 living labs
Policy recommendations (one per country, access at project webpage)
Report on Gender Equality Fellowships
Three case country papers detailing local democratic politics

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Series of blog pieces
Webpage Surface and SHAPEDEM-EU Logo

Webpage Surface and SHAPEDEMEU Logo

Podcast Series

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Setting up a dashboard

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Rola NATO jako aktora wspierającego demokrację w państwach Partnerstwa Wschodniego

Author(s): Marcin Zubek
Published in: Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2025, ISSN 2956-5014
Publisher: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
DOI: 10.14746/SSP.2025.1.6

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

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

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

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

Monographic books (1)

Belarus in the Twenty-First Century Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Author(s): Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova, Anastasiia Kudlenko
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Routledge