PROJECT TITLE: Jean Monnet Programme - South-Eastern European Developments on the Administrative Convergence and Enlargement of the European Administrative Space in Balkan States
COUNTRIES: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania
OVERALL OBJECTIVE: To carry out a complex, interdisciplinary research on the processes and phenomena characterizing public administrations in the Balkan States from the perspectives of administrative convergence and the EAS enlargement towards the Balkan region.
ACTIVITIES:
Conceived on 4 stages, each one responding to concrete research objectives, the project directed each partner’s efforts to valorise the expertise acquired in the activities of Jean Monnet Chair and towards their extension in view to research an actual topic for the Balkan space.
The project comprised activities of bibliographical research, documentation, socio-political and economic analysis, two thematic workshops (in Greece and Croatia) and two sociological surveys. The main research results were presented in a final international conference and were integrated in a collective book.
FUNDING AGENCY: European Commission
LEADER: National School of Political Studies and Public Administration of Romania
PARTNERS: EPLO, University of the Aegean (Greece), New Bulgarian University (Bulgaria), Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka (Croatia)
TIME FRAME: 2009-2011