Educational goals

Geographical and disciplinary integration.
The geographical and disciplinary integrating capacity of the project, with over 30 institutions from both Eastern and Western Europe, and with a join effort of people coming from political science, sociology, law, economy, media studies, linguistics, psychology represent a clear step forward in the strengthening of the European Research Area in the social sciences and humanities. The integrating effort will not only touch upon the national and the European levels. Because the EU is politically defined as a multilevel system of governance, efforts of cooperation and coordination of research activities will be made between local, regional, national and European levels.

Training of young fellows.
The European research capacities will be mobilised at both, the level of well-established scholars, and that of younger fellows through the implementation of training programs.