THE FOUR SPACES AND FOUR FREEDOMS IN THE RUSSIA – EU RELATIONS
December 2005
Dear project participants,
In this newsletter we would like to inform you about the most recent developments in the course of project implementation, and give you some preliminary ideas on possible project outcomes. Since our project is gaining momentum, on behalf of the Nizhny Novgorod group I would like you to use this Newsletter for posting and distributing information which is relevant for the project and might be shared with other groups.
Working meeting
From August till December 2005, Poul Wolfssen hold a number of working meetings in Nizhny Novgorod and Copenhagen with project participants. In these meetings, the strategy of the project implementation was thoroughly discussed, and the roles of each of the five groups were specified.
Conferences
The core group of the project (Poul Wolffsen, Mikhail Gorny, Liliana Proskuriakova, Viacheslav Pazniak, Andrey Dakhin, Andrey Makarychev, Alexander Sergounin) met in September 2005 in St.Petersburg at a conference on Public Policy Centers organized by “Strategia” Center. Among the most important issues of discussion were the distribution of research tasks, the timeline and the content of each of the Work Packages;
In November 2005 Andrey Makarychev participated in a conference in Brussels organized by the EUBorderConf Project. Colleagues from Birmingham University (Thomas Dietz, Michelle Pace, Jevgenia Viktorova) were informed about the INTAS project and invited to attend the Birmingham-based workshop.
Publications
In Nizhny Novgorod, a book was published which is of direct relevance to the current project. Its title is “The EU and Russia’s North West: a Playground for Innovations”, and it was sponsored by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Nizhny Novgorod-based “R-US Expert Transit” Center;
The editing of the first Research Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod group was finalized in December 2005. It will be published in hard copies in January 2006 and distributed among all project members.
Forthcoming Events
The St.Petersburg group has announced its Project Conference to be held in January 2006. All project participants are invited to submit their applications for conference attendance;
In January 2006 the Nizhny Novgorod Team will work on editing and publishing the Second Issue of the Research Bulletin. All interested participants are kindly asked to approach directly Andrey Makarychev at . The deadline for submission of short memos is the end of January.
In September 2006 the Nizhny Novgorod Team is expected to host its Project Conference. All details, including exact topic and paper submission procedure, will be announced shortly.
