“The European Union and its Neighbourhoods. Network for the Strengthening of EU Engagement on the Eastern Borders” (2017-2021).
The project was funded by the European Union under the ERASMUS+ programme. The overall objective of the ENACTED project is to consolidate and promote excellence in research and teaching in European Studies, in particular on the topic of the role of the EU, by integrating network partners and enhancing their role in society. The project involved a partnership of universities and civil society organisations from Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Belarus and Hungary. By involving wider target groups in the project, awareness of the EU’s neighbourhood instruments improved.
4 years ENACTED project with the final publication.
Partner: NGO “Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation”, Odessa, Ukraine
IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES (multiply the table for each activity)
| Title of the activity | Special issue of “UA: Ukraine Analytica”, #3, 2018 “Neighbourhood” |
| Date and location | Odessa, Ukraine |
| Short description, dissemination and impact | Preparation, edition and publication of the special issue of the only Ukrainian analytical English language journal on foreign policy – “Neighbourhood”. Articles are dedicated to the issues of the EU neighbourhood policy, Eastern Partnership, Association agreements. 9 articles, from which 2 are written by the ENACT partner universities authors – Loredana Simionov from Iasi University and Oksana Dobrzhanska from Chernivtsi National University. Dr Hanna Shelest was a chief editor of the issue. Printed version is sent to 100 best think tank, universities and MFA around the world. 400 copies presented at big foreign policy forums in Ukraine, Belgium and Turkey. Online version is available – http://ukraine-analytica.org/wp-content/uploads/UA_Analytica_13_2018_print.pdf |
| Number of participants | 11 direct and 2000 indirect |
| Title of the activity | Research ‘Assessing the impact and limits of the EU’s neighbourhood instruments in the eastern borderland regions’ |
| Date and location | February 2019, Odessa, Ukraine |
| Short description, dissemination and impact | Conducting the questionnaire-based survey for testing the efficiency of the neighbourhood instruments by looking, on the one hand, at the perceptions and feedback from the region vis-a-vis the ENP/EaP instruments and, on the other, at the ways CBC between EU and EaP countries could be improved. The focus is made on the case of Ukraine. |
| Number of participants | 20 |
| Title of the activity | The essay contest ‘Looking to the future – common values, common dreams’ |
| Date and location | 8 May 2019, Odessa Ukraine |
| Short description, dissemination and impact | The essay contest was jointly organized by NGO ‘Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation’ and Odessa National University. Students from Odessa universities participated in the contest. The essays were evaluated by the special commission that included ENACTED project members from Ukraine. The winner of Odessa round is MA student of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Sciences and Sociology at Odesa National University Iuliia Oproschenko.
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| Number of participants | 20 |
| Title of the activity | ‘The Future of Europe – the European Union after the Elections and beyond’ |
| Date and location | 19 June 2019, Odessa, Ukraine |
| Short description, dissemination and impact | On June 19, the NGO ‘Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation’ organized the ENACTED round-table discussion entitled ‘The Future of Europe – the European Union after the Elections and beyond’. The discussion was organized in Odesa, Ukraine, within the 2019 International Neighbourhood Symposium (INS) ‘Addressing the Challenges in Europe and its Neighbourhoods’. The Symposium aims to largely contribute to further cooperation and understanding of Europe and its Neighbourhoods by providing a forum for study and dialogue in a multicultural and interdisciplinary environment; this year the event has brought together speakers and participants from more than 15 countries. Speakers included, former MEP Hannes Swoboda and Director of the Black Sea Trust Alina Inayeh.
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| Number of participants | 30 |
TEAM INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT AND THEIR ROLE
| Name | Role (e.g. partner coordinator, responsible for activity R1 ) |
| Dr HANNA SHELEST | Partner coordinator, manager, researcher |
| Dr OLGA BRUSYLOVSKA | Researcher, responsible for administrative activities involved Odessa National University |
PUBLICATIONS
(include here all publication related to the project theme published by members of the project team)
– Shelest H, Gerasymchuk S. Elections 2019 in Moldova: New Challenges and New Opportunities for Cooperation within Ukraine-Moldova-Romania Triangle, Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian Prism, November 2018, 77p. http://prismua.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Web_Elections_2019_moldova_2019_layout_en.pdf
–Shelest H. Third powers in Ukraine. Third powers in Europe’s east. Chaillot Paper 144, 2018. Ed. S. Secrieru and N. Popescu, EU Institute for Security Studies, p. 61-71
– Brusylovska O., Maksymenko I. East – West Border: Possibilities of Ukraine’s CBC with Poland and Romania // Old Borders – New Challenges, New Borders – Old Challenges. De-Bordering and Re-Bordering in Contemporary Europe, ed. Jarosław Janczak, p. 45-74. – Series of the Collegium Polonicum, Band 34. – Logos Verlag, 2019.
– Brusylovska O. Post-communist identities and their transformations: The cases of Poland and Romania // Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe. Histories, Religions, and Cultures II, eds. E. Anastasova, S. Toncheva. – Sofia: Paradigma Publishing House, 2018. – P. 56-65.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
(include here all conferences related to the project theme in which members of the project team participated)
– The roundtable ‘Eastern Partnership: how not to miss opportunities’, October 9, 2018, Chernivtsi, Ukraine (Hanna Shelest).
– Trilateral Forum “Ukraine-Moldova-Romania”, November 9, 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine (Hanna Shelest).
– The First Romanian – Ukrainian Civil Society Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation, February 26-27, 2019, Bucharest, Romania (Hanna Shelest).
– Atlantic – Black Sea Security Forum 2019, March 20-21, 2019, Bucharest, Romania (Hanna Shelest).
– AESC “The Experience of Inter-Regionalism in the Black Sea and Caucasus Regions: Norm Diffusion, Legal Approximation and Contestation” April 19-20, 2019 р., Odessa, Ukraine (Olga Brusylovska).
– Seminar ‘Eastern Partnership: how not to miss opportunities’, April 15, 2019, Odessa, Ukraine (Hanna Shelest).
– EURINT 2019 ‘European Union’s structural challenges: the way forward’ May 17-18, 2019, Iasi, Romania (Olga Brusylovska).
– International seminar “Eastern partnership leaders for Change”, June 3, Odessa, Ukraine (Hanna Shelest).
– IX International Neighbourhood Symposium (INS) ‘Addressing the Challenges in Europe and its Neighbourhoods’, June 18 – 23, 2019, Odesa, Ukraine (Hanna Shelest, Olga Brusylovska).
– CEEISA-ISA «IR in the Age of Anxiety», June 17, 2019, Belgrade, Serbia (Olga Brusylovska).
MEDIA EVENTS (please provide links to articles or video materials, etc related to ENACTED project)
–https://www.facebook.com/radiobuk/videos/512017462614023/ (radio news on the roundtable ‘Eastern Partnership: how not to miss opportunities’)
