NTNU, drawing on the input of all partners, will develop a data management plan, providing clear-cut guidelines to ensure that the project, and thus all research (collection, processing, and analysis), will be in compliance with all relevant and mandatory open access practices and metadata standards.
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This working paper will provide an overview and critical analysis of all EU democracy support action towards the eastern neighbourhood in a longitudinal perspective. This working paper will be elaborated by SURREY, YSU, TUD and HSG.
This working paper aims at offering a detailed overview and analysis of EU Member States’ democracy support actions towards the eastern neighbourhood in a longitudinal perspective. It will be elaborated by SURREY, YSU, TUD, and HSG
This paper, targeting officials and policy makers, is a natural continuation of the two previous deliverables, connects their findings and compares EU and EU Member States’ democracy support action, thus offering important reflections on how to enhance complementarity and coherence. This will be elaborated jointly by SURREY and YSU.
This working paper analyses the much debated security-democracy nexus in EU action and discusses how security concerns have obstructed the full and active functioning of the demos cycle. This will be jointly elaborated by NTNU, KSE, GFSIS, IDIS, and CRRC.
This provides an open source dataset of all EU and EU Member States’ democracy support action towards the eastern neighbourhood during the period 2010-2022. It will be conducted by SURREY, YSU, TUD, HSG.
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This working paper will outline the conceptual framework ensuring coherence between the different conceptions of the EU, EU Member States, international organisations, and eastern neighbours as re. different funding categories and the subsequent data collection, processing and interpretation. This will be jointly elaborated by KSE, NTNU, and HSG.
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This will be a detailed, aggregated dataset on international and EU funding for democracy, human rights, gender equality, the rule of law, and good governance in the eastern neighbourhood during the period 2010-2022. It will be jointly generated by KSE and NTNU.
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Based on the collected data, this policy paper, targeting officials and policy-makers, will offer a systematic overview of the EU and Member States’ funding in the eastern neighbourhood, divided by funding categories. It will be jointly elaborated by KSE and NTNU.
Drawing on the previously collected data, this working paper will offer a critical overview and analysis of funding practices by the EU, EU Member States and international organisations, link these to actors’ variegated conceptions of funding categories, and discuss implications and consequences for international democracy support (research). It will be jointly elaborated by KSE, NTNU, HSG.
This working paper will offer a critical analysis and overview of the state of political transition in the eastern neighbourhood throughout the period in question. It will be jointly elaborated by GFSIS, NTNU and TUD.
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This deliverable is composed of four policy papers, each one of which is focusing on a cluster of success factors and barriers to democratization at the domestic and regional levels: social (elaborated by NTNU and CRRC); economic (elaborated by KSE and IDIS); cultural (to be drafted by GFSIS); and statehood (elaborated by NTNU and ICDS).
This report revolves around lessons learnt regarding democratic progress, stasis, regression and authoritarianization in the eastern neighbourhood. It will be elaborated by GFSIS, NTNU, KSE, TUD, ICDS, IDIS, and CRRC).
This deliverable, composed of two policy papers, targeting practitioners and policy makers, will address the different regime clusters and analyse their respective challenges to democratization. It will be elaborated by TUD and SURREY, with input from YSU, KSE, GFSIS, IDIS, and CRRC.
This working paper will form the basis of a regime-tailored conceptual framework and the design of custom-made instruments of democracy cooperation. It will be elaborated by TUD and SURREY.
This report will evaluate the impact of domestic political factors on EU democracy support and is elaborated by SURREY and TUD.
This deliverable, composed of three policy papers, and targeting officials and policy makers, discusses the role of key external actors, such as the US, Russia and China in the eastern neighbourhood, and how their respective policies affect democratization processes or the entrenchment of authoritarianism. GFSIS and ICDS will draft the paper on the US, ICDS, GFSIS and YSU on Russia, and ICDS and the GFSIS on China.
This working paper, to be elaborated by TUD and ICDS, will critically examine the role of external actors in the eastern neighbourhood and their efforts of promoting alternative norms.
This report, containing clear-cut policy recommendations, aims at synthesizing and contrasting third country competition and EU democracy support in the eastern neighbourhood. It will be jointly elaborated by ICDS, GFSIS, YSU, IDIS, and CRRC.
Policy round-table on EU responses to third country competition in the eastern neighbourhood.
This working paper will identify, deconstruct and contrast differences and similarities of democracy discourses across the eastern neighbourhood and EU institutions. It will be jointly drafted by KSE, SURREY, and YSU.
This working paper, to be jointly elaborated by ICDS and GFSIS, revolves around the identification and critical analysis of narratives of external norm contenders across the eastern neighbourhood.
This report, to be elaborated by KSE, ICDS and HSG, will address and examine EU and eastern neighbours’ democracy discourses and images of the EU as a democracy supporter against the backdrop of competing narratives by norm contenders in the eastern neighbourhood and through the prism of coherence.
This working paper, to be drafted by HSG, will examine the EU’s own understandings of its role as a democracy supporter and how these influence or inform relevant EU policies as such.
This policy paper, to be drafted by HSG, KES, and ICDS, revolves around effective design and communication of EU democracy support from perceptive and practical perspectives.
This working paper, to be jointly drafted by NTNU and SURREY, revolves around the demos cycle and the conditions for its full and active functioning.
This report, to be drafted by SURREY and NTNU, provides the toolkit for EU Democracy Collaboration.
This deliverable, drafted by ATC and SURREY, is the dissemination/exploitation/communication strategy
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SURREY and KSE will draft a sustainability plan.
ATC will create a project-identity kit, project branding, poster, templates for internal/external materials and guidelines for partners, e.g. for GDPR compliance. It will also produce a project brochure and regularly issue press releases and project videos, showcasing project goals and results.
HSG will produce web-accessible, open source, gif-animated visual narratives meant to improve citizens’ understanding of EU democracy support
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