As it emerges from the COVID-19, the world faces both challenges and transformational opportunities as it navigates toward a new economic and political future. The Jean Monnet Network EUCON invites students all over the world to examine the relationship between the EU, EEU, and BRI, among other forms of economic (and political) integration. Lectures and seminars of partners – University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna (Austria), University of Passau (Germany), Southern Federal University (Russia), Armenian State University of Economics (Armenia), Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) will cover European and Eurasian cooperation projects in their dynamic since the end of the Soviet era to the post-COVID situation. 

The concept of the School gravitates around the question of contest between the EU and EEU as globally leading brassage centres. It discusses both political and economic factors as driving integration processes, including the willingness to consolidate regional prosperity and security and to create a large and effective economic space. Attendees will debate on different power strategies of the European Union, Eurasian Union and Chinese Initiative and international influence within the security-economic efficiency nexus. The School will illustrate issues and to assess prospects related to contested integration processes in Europe and Eurasia.
The teaching principle of the School is multifacetedness of the global integration processes, and combines lectures, seminars, debates and small project work. 

Topics to cover:

• The dynamic of integration projects (EU, EAEU, BRI, BRICS etc.) concerns the role of historical memory in creating cooperation projects and identifying common background for collaborations; the EU between values and reason; political regimes in the context of integration impetus; integration in the economic view.
• Institutional framework of the EU-EAEU-BRI relations includes basic principles of integration presented in documents; global strategies of the EU, EAEU, and BRI and beyond; alternatives for the strategic projects – EU and Russia in the global competitive environment.
• Political and economic environment within the regional integration projects: problems and islands of cooperation, challenges and opportunities. Development under question: EU and non-EU vision of strategic priorities in the multipolar world.
• Integration and disintegration trends after Davos-2018: security vs liberty, prosperity vs justice, bilateralism vs multilateralism, challenges vs perspectives. EU and Russia in the situation of competition.

Motivation letters, including abstracts of current research interests, names and affiliation of participant to submit here by May 30, 2021.

Any inquiries to address: Oxana Karnaukhova, Summer School coordinator at oskarnauhova@sfedu.ru mentioning in the title EUCON – 2021.