IIRPS VU and partners won Horizon 2020 Funding

Institute of International Relations and Political Science together with partners won Horizon 2020  funding for the project „The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries: An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment“. The main goal of the project is to investigate under what conditions the EU’s strategies and instruments for  its Eastern neighbours can be more effective.

Ten years after its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has fallen short of accomplishing its mission. The war in Ukraine and the rising tensions with Russia have made a re-assessment of the ENP both more urgent and more challenging. This project will address two questions: first, why has the EU fallen short of creating peace, prosperity and stability in its Eastern neighbourhood? Second, what can be done to strengthen the EU’s transformative power in supporting political and economic change in the six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries?

The findings will be submitted to the European Commission.

This project will be coordinated by Freie Universitaet Berlin and Universiteit Leiden and will involve eleven partners which are the leaders on this topic.

IIRPS research team consist of:

• Prof. dr. Ramūnas Vilipišauskas – leader of work package and IIRPS team coordinator
• Assoc. prof. dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė
• Assoc. prof. dr. Margarita Šešelgytė
• Dr. Laurynas Jonavičius