InvigoratEU
Invigorating Enlargement And Neighbourhood Policy For A Resilient Europe
The Project investigates how can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe's resilience

HOW CAN THE EU INVIGORATE ITS ENLARGEMENT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY TO ENHANCE EUROPE’SRESILIENCE?
Our first goal is to investigate HOW TO REFORM the EU’s enlargement strategy in a new geopolitical phase, HOW TO RESPOND to other actors’ geopolitical ambitions in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Western Balkans, and HOW TO REBUILD the EU’s foreign policy arsenal in view of a new era of military threats (triple “R” approach) combining the modernisation and geopolitical logics of EU enlargement, leading to new data – e.g. a public opinion survey in Ukraine, a set of scenarios, an external influence index (Russia, China, Turkey),and a social policy compliance and cohesion scoreboard.
Our second goal is to elaborate an EVIDENCE-BASED, FORWARDLOOKING VISION FOR THE EU’s POLITICAL AGENDA AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CO-DESIGNING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL TOOLBOX (i.e. two tailor-made toolkits), together with InvigoratEU´s Expert Hub, Civil Society (CS) Network, Youth Labs, Workshops for Young Professionals and Policy Debates in a gaming set up, which will result in context-sensitive and actionable policy recommendations for European and national political stakeholders and (young) European citizens in particular.
Our third goal is to deploy a CDE (communication, dissemination and exploitation) strategy AIMING AT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DAY 1 to maximize our scientific, policy and societal impact in invigorating the EU´s enlargement and neighbourhood policies to enhance Europe´s resilience.
ULTIMATELY, INVIGORATEU IS A DELIBERATELY LARGE CONSORTIUM respecting THE DIVERSITY OF EUROPE and POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES; 7 out of 18 are from GEORGIA, MOLDOVA, UKRAINE, and the Western Balkans (NORTH MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA), COMPLEMENTED BY our CS Network of 9 representatives from all Western Balkan countries, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Partners:
- UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN (Coordinator)
- INSTITUT FUR EUROPAISCHE POLITIK EV (Scientific Lead)
- PMC RESEARCH CENTER
- Ss. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE
- ASOCIATIA OBSTEASCA INSTITUTUL PENTRU INITIATIVE STRATEGICE
- JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA
- CENTAR ZA EVROPSKE POLITIKE
- UKRAINIAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES NAMED AFTER OLEKSANDR RAZUMKOV
- TRANS EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
- FINNISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- ISTITUTO AFFARI INTERNAZIONALI
- LATVIJAS ARPOLITIKAS INSTITUTS
- VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
- UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
- CENTRE D'INFORMACIO I DOCUMENTACIO INTERNACIONALS A BARCELONA
- UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
- CARNEGIE EUROPE FOUNDATION
- EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH