How can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe’s resilience?

Our first goal is to investigate how to reform the EU’s enlargement strategy in a new geopolitical phase, how to respond to other actors’ geopolitical ambitions in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Western Balkans, and how to rebuild  the EU’s foreign policy arsenal in view of a new era of military threats (triple “R” approach) combining the modernisation and geopolitical logics of EU enlargement, leading to new data – e.g. a public opinion survey in Ukraine, a set of scenarios, an external influence index (Russia, China, Turkey),and a social policy compliance and cohesion scoreboard.

Our second goal is to elaborate an evidence-based, forward looking vision for the EU’s political agenda and institutional frameworks for co-designing a multidimensional toolbox (i.e. two tailor-made toolkits), together with InvigoratEU´s Expert Hub, Civil Society (CS) Network, Youth Labs, Workshops for Young Professionals and Policy Debates in a gaming set up, which will result in context-sensitive and actionable policy recommendations for European and national political stakeholders and (young) European citizens in particular.

Our third goal is to deploy a CDE (communication, dissemination and exploitation) strategy aiming at recommendations from day 1 to maximise our scientific, policy and societal impact in invigorating the EU´s enlargement and neighbourhood policies to enhance Europe´s resilience.

Ultimately, InvigoratEU is a deliberately large consortium respecting the diversity of europe and political perspectives; 7 out of 18 are from Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Western Balkans (North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), complemented by our CS Network of 9 representatives from all Western Balkan countries, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.