OUTREACH

Through my outreach activities, I am aiming at addressing the gap between research production and research use. In this sense engagement with academic stakeholders takes place at the events of the various professional organizations such as UACES, the ISA, NORTIA and the EUSA that I am a member of. Engagement with non-academic stakeholders usually takes various forms from giving a speech at an event to disseminating policy briefs or talking in a podcast.

Non-academic stakeholders:

  • EU diplomatic cooperation in the Eastern neighbourhood: organized the NORTIA Practitioner-Academic Roundtable for scholars and EU diplomats in Brussels (at Kent University Brussels, 2018)
  • Advantages of academia-NGOs cooperation for producing better research products on conflict studies: consulted think-tanks from Eastern Partnership countries on how to use research methodology and transform their data into research policy papers in Bucharest (at General Marshall Fund, 2018)
  • Scenario building and scenarios for EU as a peace project in 2040: facilitated the discussions within 4 civil society working groups on the future of the Euroepan Union in Kyiv (for PAX-Netherlands, 2018)
  • How the EU could more effectively support the development in Moldova to ensure stability, prosperity and security?: delivered a talk for think-tanks and policy practitioners in Oslo (at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs , 2016)

Academic stakeholders:

  • How European Union makes use of diplomacy to deal with foreign policy dilemmas in Eastern Europe, paper presented at UACES Virtual Conference 202
  • The diplomacy of EaP non-state actors in EU foreign policy, paper presented EUSA the 17th European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Conference, Denver, USA, 2019
  • Practice and Performance of EU Diplomacy Post-Lisbon in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, presented at ISA 59th Annual Conference San Francisco, USA, 2018
  • Political cohesion and coordination of Nordic Plus and CEEC EU member states in Eastern Europe, presented at the Netherlands Institute of Government Annual Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 2017