CURRENT PROJECT

Strengthening EU external support for democracy (EMBRACE)

Demonstration in favour of the European Union against nationalist movements. Demonstration in favour of the European Union against nationalist movements. Photo © Shutterstock / Mike Dotta

The cross-regional collaborative research project analyses blockages to democratisation and identifies ways to overcome them across the wider European neighbourhood.

Timeframe: 2022 - 2025


The research project EMBRACing changE (Overcoming Blockages and Advancing Democracy in the European Neighbourhood) aims to respond to the counter-democracy trends after the coloured revolutions and the Arab Spring. It does so through an inter-disciplinary, multi-method and cross-regional assessment of both blockages to and drivers of democratisation in 12 case study countries across Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus, Western Balkans, Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Together, 14 international partner institutions will develop innovative policy tools to improve the European Union’s capacity for democracy promotion, from above – through institution-building and collaboration with reform-minded elites, and from below – through engagement with civil society, social movements and popular uprisings. Over the next 3 years, the consortium will receive EUR 2,8 million € funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Background

Partners and Funding

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Project lead

Véronique Dudouet
Senior Advisor
v.dudouet@berghof-foundation.org

Team members

Karin Göldner-Ebenthal
Lara Azzam

 


Media contact

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