Annual Erasmus+ Information Days were held on the 4th, 8th and 11th of November in Yerevan, on the 23rd in Gyumri and on the 24th in Vanadzor. The events were aimed at beneficiaries and informed about the Erasmus+ Programme, it’s Call for Proposals launched in October 2016 and on several actions relevant to the international dimension…
Call for participation: Winter School Stavropol 2017 „European Integration and Anti-Corruption Studies in the Caucasus” 27 February – 4 March 2017, Stavropol (Russian Federation) North Caucasus Federal University as a part of the Jean Monnet Network “Developing European Studies in the Caucasus” (DESCnet) invites graduate and post-graduate students to apply for the second DESCnet Winter School on Anti-Corruption…
This summer Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted an intensive summer school, which coincided with two side, but not less important events – the “Georgia’s European Way” Converence and annual meeting of the DESCnet consortium. Both came at a very pivotal moment of unprecedented challenges for the destini of mutual coexistence of people and nations.…
The DESCnet is now approximately 6 moths in operation. Thinking back that it was only in early December 2015 that we met in Tartu, we have seen the first activites unfold in almost breakneck speed. As you know, we had been preparing the Pyatigorsk Winter School under high time pressure and in a general political…
This inaugural newsletter marks the beginning of the activities of the Jean Monnet Network »Developing the European Studies in the Caucasus« (DESCnet). Originally conceived of by the University of Graz‘ Russian East European & Eurasian Studies Centre (REEES), it is now under the direction of the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University…