The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation

Project Information

NAVIGATOR

Grant agreement ID: 101094394

DOI

10.3030/101094394

EC signature date 12 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2027

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 992 512,50

EU contribution

€ 2 992 512,50

Coordinated by

NORSK UTENRIKSPOLITISK INSTITUTT
Norway

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - NAVIGATOR (The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation)

Reporting period: 2024-03-01 to 2025-02-28

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? As threats of nationalism and anti-EU populism are rising, the EU is searching for ways to navigate the increasingly complex institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order. The EU needs to identify which institutions to strengthen, which to reform and which to bypass when revitalising multilateralism.

NAVIGATOR has identified six pathways to impact:
(I) evidence-based recommendations targeting EU and Member States policymakers. It is rooted in the project’s empirical findings and a two-way dialogue on the EU’s contribution to global governance efforts.

(II) engage the foreign policy knowledge quads in non-EU partner countries equally involved in efforts to reform and buttress the international rules-based system.

(III) engage the European private sector leaders involved in international rule-making and the provision of global public goods through public-private arrangements.

(IV) target the global scientific community and build on the project’s conceptual and empirical findings.

(V) involve graduate and PhD students.

(VI) leverage the consortium’s resources and insights to contribute towards the training of a new generation of European professionals equipped to act effectively across the different global governance platforms studied.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

During the second year, the partners have utilized the empirical framework to analyze how global governance is changing within the fields that NAVIGATOR is focusing on - climate change, digitalization, finance/tax, health, migration and security. This has resulted in a set of working papers on each of these topics.

In parallel with guiding the development of these case studies, the team in WP2 has developed a working paper on regional perspectives on global governance and two special issues in international journals.

In WPs 3-8 the teams have gathered quantitative and qualitative data. This has resulted in uploads to the dataset and the first set of working papers from the empirical work packages. All deliverables have been submitted on time.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

We are now half-way in the project and while it is early to claim impact, some indications are beginning to surface. During our Strategy Expert Group meeting in Brussels in 2024, results were shared with experts from across the substantive fields that NAVIGATOR covers, and most of these are very high level practitioners and scholars.

In the next year of the project, NAVIGATOR will arrange three regional policy workshops in Johannesburg, Ottawa and Tokyo to ensure that regional perspectives are taken into account so that the project can provide a full picture and relevant advice for EU policymakers on how to move forward with international cooperation and continue to support a rules-based international order.

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