Dear colleagues and Friends! Greetings and a warm welcome to the 6th issue of our DESCnet newsletter! Our project is almost two years old and we have accomplished much throughout this period. We have already had two winter schools in Stavropol and Pyatigorsk, a summer school in Batumi and a young researches’ seminar in Graz.…
Give the comprehensive nature of the undertaking within the framework laid down by the DESCnet and the AESC, it seemed to be a daunting taks for me when I was asked by Professor Thomas Kruessmann to prepare the editorial for the fifth issue of the DESCnet Newsletter. Going through the previous issue, I came across…
On 28 April 2017 the General Assembly of the Association of European Studies for the Caucaus, at its meeting in Istanbul, elected a new Management Board for the time period until the Second Annual Convention 2018: Prof. Dr. Gaga Gabrichidze Prof. Dr. Mukhtar Hajizada Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Kruessmann, LL.M (President) Prof. Dr. Oliver Reisner…
First AESC Annual Convention 27 April 2017 Venue: Faculty of Fine Arts Conference Hall 10:00 – Opening by Dr. Bilgen Sütçüoğlu Chair, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yeditepe University 10:20 – Speech by Almula Türedi Ministry for EU Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Directorate for Accession Policy 10:40 – Welcome by AESC President 11:00 – Academic…
27 April 2017 10:00 – Opening by representative of Yeditepe University 10:30 – Welcome by AESC President 11:00 – Academic Workshop No. 1: The Changing Regional Geographies in Europe and its Eastern Neighbours The Black Sea Cooperation in the Context of Sub-regionalism and Inter-regionalism (Mukhtar Hajizada (Khazar University, Department of Political Science and International Relations) The Organization of the…
“Challenges and Opportunities of Europeanisation in the Caucasus” First Annual Convention of the Association of European Studies for the Caucasus Yeditepe University, Istanbul (Turkey), 27 to 28 April 2017 Yeditepe University In October 2016 the Association of European Studies for the Caucasus (AESC) was founded in the framework of the Jean Monnet Network „Developing European…
Dear colleagues and friends! This is to welcome you to the fourth issue of our DESCnet newsletter. As you can see by its souze, our network keeps growing in numbers and extent of topics covered, whic is also expressed in the current issue. The most important issue in 2016 was the establishment of the “Association…
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.…