ChangingTIDE: Together to Inform, Debunk and Empower
ChangingTIDE aims to address the democratic threat of disinformation by combining awareness-raising, media literacy education, youth empowerment and participatory dialogue. The project equips participants with the skills necessary to critically analyse and evaluate media while fostering inclusive exchanges between citizens, experts and policy-makers on disinformation challenges. ChangingTIDE places a strong emphasis on youth empowerment, supporting […]
ExpressEU
TEPSA is a beneficiary of an Operating Grant awarded in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme of the European Union (EU) for the period 2026-2028. The ‘Fast track to citizens’ engagement in the EU – ExpressEU’ project features awareness-raising, analytical and training activities focused on the creation of channels for communication, […]
Expertise for the European Parliament | 2024-2029 Framework Contracts
TEPSA has five decades of experience in European affairs and a history of successfully coordinating research projects on behalf of European institutions and other international stakeholders. With particular reference to the European Parliament (EP), TEPSA builds on 15 years of experience delivering studies through Framework Contracts (FWCs) and ad hoc requests. In general, FWCs are […]
InvigoratEU: Invigorating Enlargement And Neighbourhood Policy For A Resilient Europe
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 […]
Nets4Dem – Network of Networks 4 Democracy
Twelve like-minded European and global organisations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem. This is an unprecedented initiative, building the infrastructure needed to strengthen democracy across Europe based on local, national and European-wide networks. Nets4Dem will establish a European network of academics, practitioners and civil society, […]
Expertise for the European Parliament | 2019-2024 Framework
TEPSA is proud to hold a number of framework contracts to provide leading analysis to the European Parliament. TEPSA works chiefly with the Directorates General for External Policies of the Union (DG EXPO), for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS) and for Internal Policies of the Union (DG IPOL). Within these main partnerships, TEPSA coordinates studies […]
RECLAIM
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a set of processes and phenomena that are frequently referred to as post-truth politics and which constitute a fundamental challenge, potentially even an existential threat, to liberal democracy as we have come to understand it. Under the title “Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Post-Factual Age” (RECLAIM), this project […]
RADAR
RADAR aimed at raising citizens’ awareness on disinformation and providing an accessible public platform for debate on the issue. Our project focused on harnessing citizens’ thoughts on disinformation (bottom-up), providing expert insights into protection against disinformation (top-down) and fomenting interaction and consultation between both (throughput). It had a special focus on youth to contribute to […]
ActEU
How can we conceptualise and empirically measure political trust and legitimacy beyond the usual survey question “How much trust do you have in the parliament?”? Does the multi-level nature of European representative democracies require an identical level of citizen support at the regional, national and EU level? How is social polarisation on key policy issues […]
EU-Bridge
TEPSA is a beneficiary of an Operating Grant awarded in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme of the European Union for the period 2022-2025. Within its work programme, TEPSA organises a number of events both in Brussels and in the member states, in cooperation with its member institutes. The Operating grant […]
DiCE: Differentiation – Clustering Excellence
Differentiation: Clustering Excellence (DiCE) was a Horizon 2020-funded project that started in January 2020 and ran for three years. Its main objective was to ensure that state-of-the-art research on differentiation be translated into policy advice and made accessible to policy-makers at European, national and regional levels. The ultimate goal was to better prepare the EU for various […]
EP4U: European Policies for You
EP4U was a project aiming at raising citizens’ awareness of EU policy-making and engage university and high school students, and the broader public, in discussions about the work of the EU and the EP in four policy areas that are considered salient for these audiences: climate and environment; employment and social policies; migration and asylum; and non-discrimination and […]
Europe for Citizens: TEPSA’s Operating Grant
TEPSA was a beneficiary of an Operating Grant awarded in the framework of the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union for the period 2018-2020. Within its work programme, TEPSA organised a number of events both in Brussels and in the Member States, in cooperation with its member institutes. The Operating grant also supported […]
InDivEU: Integrating Diversity in the European Union
Integrating Diversity in the European Union (InDivEU) was a Horizon 2020 funded research project aimed at contributing concretely to the current debate on the ‘Future of Europe’ by assessing, developing and testing a range of models and scenarios for different levels of integration among EU Member States. InDivEU was coordinated by the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, where it was hosted by […]
VIADUCT: Enhancing Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on EU-Turkey Cooperation
VIADUCT was a project aiming at creating an academic network linking universities and think-tanks from the EU, Turkey and the neighbourhood to build knowledge on EU-Turkey Cooperation. Coordinated by Prof Wolfgang Wessels and Dr Funda Tekin at CETEUS, University of Cologne, the Jean Monnet Network VIADUCT was launched on 1st September 2017 and ran for […]
SEnECA: Strengthening and Energizing EU-Central Asia Relations
The project “SEnECA – Strengthening and Energizing EU-Central Asia Relations” sought to improve research cooperation and to strengthen capacities in research and policy advice in the EU and Central Asia, having recognised the importance of Central Asia for Europe. An international consortium, with twelve partner organisations from the EU and Central Asia, led by Prof. Dr. Michael Kaeding, professor […]
#EngagEU: Youth Participation and youth-relevant topics in the next European Elections 2019
The European elections of May 2019 were held in the context of rising populism, protectionism and nationalistic tendencies in Europe. Furthermore, since the first direct Parliament elections, the constantly decreasing turnouts in the European Elections seemed to confirm the perceived gap between European citizens and EU decision-making. Pro-Europeans faced an increasing number of growing voices […]
FEUTURE: The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios
FEUTURE was a three-year research project on EU-Turkey relations. With a broad consortium made up of renowned research institutes across Europe and beyond, FEUTURE set out to explore the range of different options for further EU-Turkey cooperation in the next decade, by analysing drivers of cooperation within six thematic dimensions (politics, security, economics, energy, migration, identity) and across four […]
PONT: Professional Training on EU Affairs
PONT built a bridge connecting students and young researchers with EU practitioners, in order to improve their employability. The project took place over three years, from 2015 to 2018. PONT consisted of teaching and training activities in selected policy fields, with the objective to give graduates and young academics the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of a policy field […]
PADEMIA: Erasmus Academic Network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe
The PADEMIA project aimed to establish a Europe-wide and sustainable network of 56 academics from 31 countries in order to promote research and teaching in reaction to growing European demands to study parliamentary democracy in Europe. PADEMIA sought to enhance discussion among students, junior and senior researchers, also in exchange with stakeholders, on how to deal […]
ENURC: Eastern Neighbours and Russia Close Links with EU Citizens
The ENURC project focused on developing EU citizens’ understanding of the topic of the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia. The project aimed at encouraging citizens’ interest and involvement in this policy which has an impact on their daily lives. Following the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the growing tensions between the EU and Russia, security of the […]
THESEUS: Establishing a European Society
THESEUS was a joint activity of Sciences Po Paris, the Jean Monnet Chair of the University of Cologne, the Trans European Policy Studies Association (Brussels) and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne). Emerging from a Franco-German initiative, THESEUS considered itself as European network of thinkers, actors and ideas, which promoted the mutual understanding of societies in […]
PEGASUS: PhD Programme on EU Graduate Students University Skills
From 2012 to 2015, TEPSA implemented the PEGASUS project together with the University of Cologne, Charles University in Prague, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and Maastricht University. The main objective of the PEGASUS project was the development of a joint genuinely integrated European PhD programme based […]
Access-TR: Mobilizing Local Networks for a Better Informed Dialogue on Turkey’s Accession to the EU
Mobilizing Local Networks for a Better Informed Dialogue on Turkey’s Accession to the EU (ACCESS-TR) was awarded to the Center for European Studies of the Middle East Technical University (CES-METU) by the European Commission under the IPA Information and Communication Programme: Support for actions promoting a better informed public debate about EU Enlargement. The Project […]
EU-Consent: Constructing Europe Network Turkey’s Accession to the EU
EU-CONSENT was a network of excellence for joint research and education that analyses the construction of a new Europe over the period between 2005 and 2008. It addressed the question of the mutually reinforcing effects of deepening and widening by developing and working with three sets of expectations concerning past and future integration of Europe. […]
EXACT: Integrated Training Programme for Analysis, Assessment and Advice on EU’s External Action and its Institutional Architecture
The Initial Training Network “Integrated Training Programme for Analysis, Assessment and Advice on EU´s External Action and its Institutional Architecture” (EXACT) aimed at preparing 14 Early Stage Researchers (ESR) for professional and academic careers in universities as well as in the public and private sector in academically based consulting for policy makers. The training network focused its […]
LISBOAN: Linking Interdisciplinary Integration Studies by Broadening the European Network
LISBOAN (Linking Interdisciplinary Integration Studies by Broadening the European Academic Network) was a network of 67 partner institutions including 16 TEPSA institutes (TEPSA is also a member) from all EU Member States as well as Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey. Its aim is to strengthen cooperation between institutions of higher education and research in […]
SInAN: Strengthening and Integrating Academic Networks
Strengthening and Integrating Academic Networks (SInAN) was awarded to the Center for European Studies (CES-METU) under the European Commission’s programme for Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between European Union and Turkey: Universities Grant Scheme. The Project was implemented by CES-METU for an 18-month period from June 2008 to November 2009. CES-METU’s Project partner is […]