Successful application to the International Visegrad Fund

During this summer, our project proposal entitled ,,With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukranian borders” was approved. This project, led by CESCI, is managed with the collaboration of the State University «Uzhgorod National University» (Faculty of Law), Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IELR NASU), University of Presov, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Political Science, Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences and the Technical University of Liberec. The project starts in autumn this year and will be finished by April 2020.

Acoording to the following intervention logic, the main objective of the project is to contribute to the Europeanisation of the Ukranian borders by boosting cross-border cooperation.

As a result of the project, a comparative analysis will be elaborated which will examine the legal framework governing the cross-border cooperation of the Visegrad countries, and which will provide a basis for the formulation of some drafting recommendations for the amendments of existing legislation of Ukraine. Furthermore, in order to improve the capacity of local actors, a training material will also be developed, which will be also used in practice during the first training on CBC, which is also part of the project. All of the final results of this project will be presented during an international conference organised by the Košice Platform in Prešov.