01-02 October 2019 Ankara, Turkey

Kick-Off Meeting

The LEAP Kick-Off Conference which was organised by METU in September 2019 in Ankara. The Kick-Off Conference was consist of two parts: the first day of the Meeting, which was close to public, would be a good opportunity for key staff of the Network to meet in person, to familiarise themselves with the work plan, priorities and organisation of the project and to discuss and update the work programme of the LEAP. The second day of the Kick-off Meeting had a launch event open to public. Through this event, LEAP was disseminated to the representatives of the EU Delegation to Turkey, Ambassadors of the Network countries, bureaucrats from the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate of EU Affairs Turkish Ministry, civil society representatives, academics and EU experts.

26-27 March 2020 Lviv, Ukraine

Workshop I: Teaching and Learning Europe

In line with the first research pillar of the LEAP which explores educational aspect of the EU integration and aims to unfold complexities and challenges of teaching and learning the EU at ‘the periphery’, a two-day workshop in March 2020 was going to be organised by the IFNUL. Due to the recent pandemic, the event is postponed to a future date. One-and-a-half-day workshop where the epistemological and methodological challenges of teaching and learning Europe at ‘the periphery’ will be explored, attended by one member of the Key Staff of each partner and paper givers will be followed by a two-hour seminar by the keynote speaker on the challenges and opportunities attached to the EU Studies as a discipline.

29-30 March 2021 Tbilisi, Georgia

Workshop I: Teaching and Learning Europe

The second research pillar of the LEAP aims to unravel different dynamics underpinning the practical implications of the EU integration in daily life, i.e. performative aspect of the EU integration. In this respect, the everyday-ness of the EU from the eyes of the civil society actors will be the main theme of the workshop titled Experiencing Europe which will be organised by ISU in March 2021. The workshop will aim to bring together civil society actors and scholars working in this field, which will be organised by ISU. One-anda-half-day workshop attended by one member of the Key Staff of each partner and paper givers will be followed by a two-hour seminar by Prof. Thomas Diez on the impact of the EU in the formation of civil society inherent paradoxes and contradictions of the EU's push for democracy in the Western Balkans and Turkey.