Donors:
European Commission

Funding programme:
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme

Project duration:
2022-2024

Partners:

• TEPSA (coordinator)
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik (ÖGFE)
• Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
• Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
• Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP)
• Jagiellonian University

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RADAR aims at raising citizens’ awareness on disinformation and providing an accessible public platform for debate on the issue. Our project focuses on harnessing citizens’ thoughts on disinformation (bottom-up), providing expert insights into protection against disinformation (top-down) and fomenting interaction and consultation between both (throughput). It will have a special focus on youth to contribute to the empowerment of their voices, their engagement in European civil society and improved education on critical thinking and media literacy. RADAR will especially focus on building up citizens’ agency through training and the empowerment of citizens. Topics such as the relation between COVID-19 and disinformation, disinformation by information platforms and other relevant themes, will be addressed whenever possible.

The project comprises 12 events:

• 5 Public Debates and 5 Youth Labs in 5 EU Member States, as well as;
• The Brussels Youth Workshop and;
• The Brussels Policy Conference in Belgium’s capital.

The public debates are open to the general public and will focus on raising awareness about disinformation through the contributions of experts and practitioners. The youth labs concentrate on working with smaller groups of young people through a peer-learning prism. ‘Youth Ambassadors’ will be selected among the participants in the 5 youth labs to participate in the Brussels Youth Workshop, where they will devise practical recommendations for EU action against disinformation in their communities. These recommended actions will be presented to relevant EU interlocutors in the final concluding conference in Brussels, where a large debate on disinformation will also unfold.

The project’s lifetime is divided into three phases:

1. The Incubation Phase – from October 2022 to March 2023;
2. The Interaction Phase – from March 2023 to December 2023;
3. The Insight Phase – from December 2023 to March 2024.

We proudly announce that the VNDREAM Consortium (Project Partners) had been awarded prestigous grant by the International Visegrad Fund for the implementation of the project entitled: ‘Enhancing academic mobility in the field of Visegrad Studies in the V4, EU EaP and Western Balkans’.

The grant provides scholarships for students admitted to the ‘Joint International MA in International Relations: Europe from Visegrad Perspective’ programme in the academic years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22.

More information on MA in International Relations: Europe from Visegrad Perspective website.

The Centre for European Studies in collaboration with ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo offers a new graduate research track within the MA in European Studies programme: Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track.

Analyses of educational needs and the labor market situation shows an increasing demand for degree programmes combining research and didactics as well as offering a cooperation between science and business. In response to these needs, the project is aimed at improving the educational potential of the partners' institutes through the creation of the graduate research track within an MA programme in European Studies in Kraków: Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track.

The specialization is a response to the need for professionals who will use the knowledge acquired during their studies in the most efficient way. The specialization is a innovative combination of theory and practical set of skills. Courses will be lead by academic specialists as well as experts from the private and public sectors. It will allow the students to learn about the mechanism of how the scientific research can be transferred into actions conducive to the development of economy, society and democracy which they will then be able to implement during their internship in NGOs, public or private institutions and companies. The result will be to educate top experts in the field, conscious of their role and responsibilities of researchers, who will strengthen the future, public-private partnership.

Financing

The project is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants and co-financed by the Polish funds.

The collaboration was planned for the two academic years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016.

The project is led in a collaboration with ARENA Centre for European Studies, Univeristy in Oslo.

Learn more about the project activities:

Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track (ARENA www)

Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track (CES www)

Internship Programme Partners

The Centre for European Studies has been awarded the Visegrad University Studies Grant to launch its new course "Visegrad Countries in the Transforming European Union" in the 2012 academic year. The course will analyse the processes of European integration and their impact on the visegrad countries.

The Europeanisation and Governance Project was run by Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University and the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. The main aim of the project was to increase the educational potential of the Centre for European Studies by establishing a new specialisation taught in English – entitled Europeanisation and Governance in CEE – within the field of European Studies at the Masters degree level.