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Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe

Project description

Empowering Europe to confront resilience challenges in enlargement policies

How can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe’s resilience? Challenges include redefining enlargement strategies, responding to regional geopolitical ambitions, and fortifying against new military threats. In this context, the InvigoratEU project will aim to achieve three key goals: reform, envision, and deploy. Its aim is to address these issues head-on by using a triple R approach: reform, respond and rebuild. Secondly, it will craft an evidence-based vision, collaborating with diverse entities. Thirdly, a robust communication strategy will ensure the immediate impact of recommendations. Bringing together a diverse consortium and engaging various stakeholders, InvigoratEU is poised to chart a resilient future for European expansion and neighbourhood policies.

Objective

“HOW CAN THE EU INVIGORATE ITS ENLARGEMENT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY TO ENHANCE EUROPE’S RESILIENCE?”. InvigoratEU aims at finding answers to this question by pursuing three overarching goals:

Our first goal is (1) 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.

Our second goal is (2) to elaborate an EVIDENCE-BASED, FORWARD-LOOKING 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.

Our third goal is (3) 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 respecting THE DIVERSITY OF EUROPE and POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES; 7 out of 18 are from GEORGIA, MOLDOVA, UKRAINE, and the Western Balkans (NORTH MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA), COMPLEMENTED BY our CS Network of 9 representatives from all Western Balkan countries, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN
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€ 496 567,50
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UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 2
45141 ESSEN
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Region
Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf Essen, Kreisfreie Stadt
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 496 567,50

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