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Project Name: (ValEUs) ERASMUS-JMO-2023-NETWORKS- Jean Monnet Policy Debate: Foreign policy issues: Values and Democracy
In recent years, the EU has faced unprecedented challenges to live up to its mission to create a peaceful future based on common values. Despite the incorporation of foundational values into instruments of global governance, societal actors have increasingly opposed both the methods by which the EU propagates its values and the values themselves. Understanding contestations is of utmost importance, not only for the resilience of the EU but also for its future role on the international scene. ValEUs main objectives are (1) to enquire into the various contestations of the EU values and provide a realistic account of EU Foreign Policy; (2) to learn more about potential and successful counterstrategies to contestations and develop an alternative policy agenda; (3) to promote a new role for universities as responsible actors, as laboratories for democracy and committed partners to endangered regions, such as Ukraine. ValEUs convenes 21 partner institutions from 18 countries and five continents. All institutions have a strong expertise in EU Studies across a wide range of academic disciplines and share the mission to build collective research capacity (WP3), develop innovative teaching collaboration (WP4) and engage in impactful societal policy debate (WP5), resulting in policy recommendations for EU and non-EU stakeholders. The consortium will create a common Peer Review Platform (WP2), organise academic conferences, co-teaching projects in cooperation with Ukrainian Global University, student laboratories for democratic participation and policy debates with civil society and political stakeholders. Moreover, it will disseminate and communicate project results through the project webpage and effective communication channels targeted to different stakeholders (WP6). Network insights will be published in working papers, policy briefs and a regular newsletter. For a greater public ValEUs will edit a MOOC and a dedicated podcast.
İstanbul Bilgi University European Institute Team:
Ayhan Kaya
Özge Onursal Beşgül
Project Budget: 1 199 410.00 EUR
Partners
1 STIFTUNG EUROPA-UNIVERSITAT VIADRINA FRANKFURT (ODER), Germany
2 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA
3 ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITESI, Türkiye
4 UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU, Poland
5 UNIVERSITE AL AKHAWAYN D'IFRANE, Marocco
6 Doshisha University, Japan
7 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
8 PRIVATE INSTITUTION UNIVERSITY KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, Ukraine
9 Libertas International University, Croatia
10 NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY, Kazakhstan
11 ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET, Denmark
12 RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, USA
13 PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU, Greece
14 UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
15 UNIVERZITET U BANJOJ LUCI, Bosnia Herzegovina
16 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE, Italy
17 UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA, Mexico
18 FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE, Colombia
29 UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 VINCENNES SAINT-DENIS, France
20 SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU, Croatia
