Explaining the EU’s Actorness and its Role in the Eastern

Neighbourhood of the EU

All the participants received certificates of attendance, being encouraged to conduct a further research on the topics discussed during the summer school and to publish their research results.

On June 10 - 15 , at the premises of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM), in collaboration with the Association for Ethnic and Regional Studies (ASER), the ENACTED Summer School ‘Explaining the EU’s Actorness and Its Role in the Eastern Neighborhood of the E U’ was organized. The school aimed at offering an in - depth analysis of the EU’s external role and its impact over the wider eastern neighbourhood area in an altered context marked by the Ukrainian crisis and the existing tensions with Russia. The summer sc hool allowed PhD students and post doc researchers to acquire specific knowledge on the EU’s actorness in its eastern neighbourhood and helped to develop critical and analytical skills in order to understand the new challenges the EU faces under the curren t backdrop. The summer school programme brought together participants and speaker s from all the ENACTED partner countries and covered the following topics: the EU after the May 2019 elections to the European Parliament, the EU ’s actorness and power in the Eastern neighbourhood, impact of BREXIT on the future of the Eastern Partnership project. An additional focus was also made on specific cases of Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. During the week, the participants from six countries had an opportunity no t only to deepen their knowledge about the EU’s actorness and its role in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU, but also to enjoy a sightseeing programme. Therefore, apart of the academic input, the participants obtained a better understanding of Moldova’s traditions and cultural heritage, established some friendship bridges and acquired new ideas for future projects.

Summer School

Explaining the EU’s Actorness and its Role in the Eastern Neighbourhood of the EU

Venue: Chisinau, Moldova Period: June 6-15, 2019 Open to: PhD students and postdoctoral researchers The event was organized within the framework of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Project ENACTED European Union and its neighbourhood. Network for enhancing EU’s actorness in the eastern borderlands 2017-2625 coordinated by Centre for European Studies - Alexandru Ioan Cuza university of Iasi

In the first Day of the summer school, Lucian DÎRDALA, lecturer at the “Alexandru Ioan

Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania presented the “EU actorness and power in the Eastern

neighbourhood” and “The EU after the May 2019 elections

for the European Parliament: prospects for change?”. The

role of EU role in the EaP was envisaged and future

potential perspectives were highlighted.

“Mapping the EU’s actorness in the Republic of Moldova”

was the subject of the first session of the school’s second

day, where we had as lecturer Mr. Ion Mușchei from the

same university as the speaker mentioned above.

Przemysław Biskup (PL), PhD, lecturer, Institute of

International Economic Policy European Union Unit,

Collegium of World Economy, Warsaw School of Economics introduced the school’s

participants on the impact of BREXIT on the future of the Eastern Partnership project. The

phenomenon of Brexit was analyzed from institutional, legal, strategic and political point

of view, trying to assess few potential scenarios to occur in the nearest future.

The aspect of "The EU's conditionality principle and the EaP

countries" was presented from two perspectives by PhD

Edina Lilla MESZAROS, Univ. Assistant, University of Oradea,

Romania and Cristina MORARI, Ph.D. in Political Sciences,

University lecturer, vice dean of faculty of International

Relations, Political and Administrative Sciences, State

University the R of Moldova.

Another subject of high interest, i.e. “The EU as a digital

leader in the Eastern neighborhood” was provided with

great enthusiasm by Mirela MĂRCUȚ, trainer and language assessment officer, PhD

Assistant, Department of International Relations and European Studies, University of

Oradea, Romania.

In the fourth day of the school, Dr. Nadiia BUREIKO, Vice-

head, NGO 'Quadrivium' (Ukraine), Post-doctoral

researcher, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) talked

about “The EU-isation of Europe? Eurointegration,

Europeanisation and the Europeanness quest” and

“Europeanisation of the Neighborhood”. During her

presentations, Dr. Bureiko focused on the Ukrainian

perspective, highlighting the main achievements and

challenges this country faces.

The Belarusian perspective on the prospective of Eastern

partnership potential realization for mutual growth, as well as current background and

achievements of EU-Belarus cooperation were presented by Alexander PYKO, Associate

professor, Innovation Management Department, PhD, School of Business of Belarusian

State University.

The summer school was closed with debating the subject of border problems of the

Republic of Moldova in context of European extension space, being provided and

moderated by PhD Valeriu Sainsus, Associate Professor at ASEM.

At the end, all participants received certificates of attendance, being encouraged to

research the topics discussed during the school and publish their research results.

During the summer school week, participants had the opportunity not only to deepen

their knowledge about EU's actorness and its role in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU,

but also visit the Chisinau city and Milestii Mici Winery, which is registered in Guiness Book

for its gold collection of wine and the longest underground wine galleries.