JEAN MONNET
Since September 2019, Ilia State University got involved in new project “Linking ‘Europe’ at the periphery (LEAP) within the framework of Erasmus + Jean Monnet Networks.
The project aims to explore academically how the EU is taught in these countries and to create a conducive environment to exchanging knowledge and experience on the EU methodological and theoretical challenges of studying ‘Europe’ at the periphery. Apart from these, the project targets to shed light how the EU penetrates into the everyday lives of the people especially the young population and civil society activists. Besides, project aims to assess the reasons of Euroscepticism in the ‘periphery’ and the reasons hampering European Integration.
Another project partners are: Eskişehir Osmangazi University (Turkey), University of Pristina “Hasan Pristina” (Republic of Kosovo), National University of Ivan Franko in Lviv (Ukraine), National University of Political Science and Public Administration (Romania).
The Project Coordinator: Middle East Technical University Centre for European Studies (Turkey).
Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine
The project HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine will address the role of cultural heritage in the work of the EU’s European External Action Service. A consortium of 15 universities will bring together interdisciplinary expertise on EU foreign policy, Eastern European memory politics and heritage practices.
HER-UKR aims to explore the potential of the EU as a values based actor in heritage policies by focusing on three subtopics:
- EU cultural heritage diplomacy for promoting democracy and European values;
- conflict prevention with focus on contested heritage;
- 3protection and reconstruction of heritage.
The Project Coordinator: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.