NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE
financed under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union
Priority 7 – Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society
Research Area 4: The Implications of European Integration and Enlargement for Governance and the Citizen

Project Full Title: WIDER EUROPE, DEEPER INTEGRATION?
CONSTRUCTING EUROPE NETWORK

Website: www.eu-consent.net

Project Duration: 4 years from 1 June 2005

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. WOLFGANG WESSELS,
University of Cologne, Germany

Bulgarian partner: KRASSIMIR NIKOLOV, BECSA

Project Summary:

(If you want to read the project summary, click here.)

Participants list:

There are 48 participants in the project – 44 are from 21 EU member states and 4 are from 3 candidate countries. (If you want to read the list of participants, click here.)

Structure of EU-CONSENT:

The project’s governing bodies are the coordinator, the executive board and the steering group. The organization of activities under the project includes 14 work packages, which encompass the work of 25 research teams. (If you want to see the structure of EU-Consent, click here.)

Project activities with BECSA’s participation:

Kick-off conference of the project on 18-19 November 2005 in Brussels (programme)

Preparation of an analytical survey "Bulgaria's Pre-Accession Agenda and the European Union's Post-Enlargement Agenda in 2005" by Krassimir Nikolov – January 2006

Preparation of a pan-European analytical survey "EU-25 Watch" Nr. 2 , which covers positions of 29 European countries (the 25 EU member states and the 4 candidate countries) on topical issues in the EU's development in 2005 – January 2006.

Workshop, hosted by the Jean Monnet chair of prof. Wolfgang Wessels at the University of Cologne, Germany; presentation of BECSA's publications in 2005 to the institutions taking part in the project – February 2006

Participation of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dobrin Kanev and Dessislava Yordanova from BECSA in conference “The European Parliament and the European Political Space”, organized by the Federal Trust for Education and Research and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) in London, UK – March 2006 (programme of the conference)

Participation of Katia Hristova, member of the board of BECSA, in the conference “The Political Development of the Enlarged European Union: inter-institutional perspectives”, organized in Berlin, Germany – May 2006

Participation of Krassimir Nikolov from BECSA in the conference “The EU and the Eastern Neighbours: Democracy and Stabilization without Accession?”, organized by the Institute of International Affairs in Rome, Italy – May 2006

Preparation of a pan-European analytical survey “EU-25 Watch” Nr. 3, which covers positions of 29 European countries (the 25 EU member states and the 4 candidate countries) on topical issues in the EU's development in February-June 2006 – June 2006 (summary) (full text)

Preparation of an analytical survey “National Report on Bulgaria” by Fragomir Stoyanov and Krassimir Nikolov – October 2006

Participation of Tatiana Hubenova, Krassimir Nikolov and Dragomir Stoyanov in the second plenary conference on the project, organized by the Trans-European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) on 12-13 October 2006 in Brussels (programme)

Participation of Svetlozar Andreev from BECSA in a conference entitled “Overcoming the EU crisis: EU perspectives after the Eastern enlargement” (programme) on 26-28 October 2006 in Budapest with a paper on the topic “Path dependence during the EU’s fifth Enlargement: Comparing East-Central and Southeast Europe” (text of the paper)

Preparation of an analytical survey "National Report on Bulgaria" by Dragomir Stoyanov and Krassimir Nikolov - December 2006

Preparation of a pan-European analytical survey "EU-25 Watch" Nr. 4 covering positions of 29 European countries (the 27 EU member states and 2 candidate countries) on topical issues in the EU in the second half of 2006 - February 2007 (full text) (summary) (brief information for the media)