The consortium of the EU-funded research project EMBRACE (EMBRAcing ChangE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood) gathered at the end of April in Konstanz for the Methodology Workshop. As a kick-off to the event, a public Roundtable on the future prospects for the EU’s eastern partnership led to lively discussion between the speakers from Ukraine, Serbia, Belarus, and Germany (Karina Shyrokykh, Stockholm University; Nebojša Vladisavljević, University of Belgrade; Olga Shparaga, Institut for Human Sciences, Austria; Dirk Leuffen and Sonja Grimm, both Konstanz University).
During the Workshop, the overarching methodology of the project was presented by Sonja Grimm as scientific lead, while the leads of the five thematic workpackages presented their methodologies. Rich discussions and feedback by colleagues and members of the external advisory board (including Christoph Zürcher, Anke Höffler, Anja Osei, Olga Shparaga, Julia Leininger and Kate Fearon) in the plenary and small group sessions were the excellent result of the 2-day workshop.
The revised Theory Framework paper will shortly be public and available on our project website: https://embrace-democracy.eu/