This event will take place on May 28, 2018, between 10.00 and 16.30 at IDIS, representing a specific activity of a larger academic research project, "The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries - An Inside - Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment (EU-STRAT)", which is financed by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Program for research and innovation. The project is implemented by a group of leading EU and EaP universities and think tanks, with the aim to analyze the complex dynamics of the Eastern Partnership region, EU and Russian policies, strengths of normative/soft-power and impact of domestic actors and their strategies in shaping out the region’s priorities.

For your kind information, we expect to have as key-speakers Ms Rilka Dragneva, Team Lead, Researcher, University of Birmingham (UoB), Laure Delcour, Researcher, Foundation Maison des Sciences de l'homme (FMSH), Ildar Gazizullin, Researcher, Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy (UIPP) and IDIS experts, involved in this project. It is very clear to us that your participation would greatly contribute to the success of the event, as well as to the quality of discussions in one of the most complex foreign policies of the EU.

For your convenience, I am attaching here the draft agenda of the Policy Briefing Session and one of the Newsletters of the project.

More information about the EU-STRAT research can be found on: http://eu-strat.eu/  Please kindly confirm your attendance at the latest until April 2, 2018 at the following e-mail address: carolina.ungureanu@viitorul.org or by phone: 022 22 18 44.