EUDIMENSIONS
Title
EUDIMENSIONS: Local Dimensions of a Wider European Neighbourhood
Founder
- European Commission (6th Framework Programme)
The aim of the project
- To better understand the implications of new European geopolitical contexts for crossborder civil society interaction
- To analyse civil society co-operation processes, the multilevel contexts within which they operate and the role of the EU in conditioning these relationships within the Neighbourhood
- To investigate the extent to which meaningful forms of conflict prevention, problem-solving and collective action are emerging at the EU’ s new “outer edges”
- To understand how social knowledge and power can be mobilised as positive resources for regional co-operation and development (e.g. in terms of good practices)
- To understand how the integrative role of the EU can be enhanced within the wider “Neighbourhood” through discourses, policies and supporting measures
Timeframe
2006 – 2009
Partners
- Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner (Berlin) – leader
- University of Joensuu, Karelian Institute
- Middle East Technical University, Centre for Black Sea and Central Asia (Ankara)
- University of Tartu, Department of Political Science
- Queen’s University Belfast, The Centre for International Borders Research
- Radboun University, The Nijmegen Centre for Border Research
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Department of Sociology and Social Work
- University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies (Pecs)
Engaged persons
- Prof. James Scott
- Prof. Iwona Sagan
- Dr Magdalena Szmytkowska
- Prof. Mariusz Czepczyński
- MSc. Wojciech Dąbrowski
Products
- Final report (co-authors: Iwona Sagan, Wojciech Dąbrowski)