Common Europe

The Foundation continued to produce the policy papers aimed to present the position of Polish independent analysts and non-governmental organizations on important international issues related to EU enlargement and relations with Poland’s eastern neighbors. In 2002 we published another three policy papers from a series launched in the year 2000. These were:

Policy Paper 6: New Neighborhood – New Association. Ukraine and the European Union in the Early 21^st Century, developed by Bogumiła Berdychowska, Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, and Grzegorz Gromadzki. The papers was developed in a joint effort of the Batory Foundation, Department of International and Policy Studies of the Łódź University, and the Polish–Ukrainian Forum; it was published in the Polish, English and Ukrainian languages.

Policy Paper 7: An Overview of European (In)Security, developed by Olaf Osica and Grzegorz Gromadzki, in collaboration with the Centre for International Relations. The paper was published in Polish and English.

Policy Paper 8: Between Need and Dependency. Russian Gas in the Energy Balance of the Enlarged EU developed by Grzegorz Gromadzki, in collaboration with a panel of experts from such institutions as the Centre for Eastern Studies, and the Polish Oil and Gas Company. The report was published in Polish, English and Russian.

Launched in 2002, the Enlarged European Union and Ukraine: New Relations project aims at developing a collection of political, social and economic analyses (recommendations included) on the new EU policy towards Ukraine and necessary changes to be introduced in Ukraine to facilitate the European integration, a new approach towards Ukraine to be developed by Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. Research results will be presented in a report to be published in the second half of 2003. The project is implemented in collaboration with Ukrainian partners (mainly the Renaissance Foundation), and Polish and foreign institutions; financial support has been provided by the Polish-American- Ukrainian Co-operation Initiative (PAUCI).

In 2002, two seminars took place: a seminar in Warsaw (April 12^th – 13^th) launched the works on the report, and was devoted to the selection of the ultimate list of issues to be described in the report as well as the appointment of the task forces. During the Kiev seminar (October 24^th – 26^th), task forces’ work effects were discussed, with tentative analyses offered by the experts. Both seminars were attended by specialists from Ukraine, and from EU candidate and member states, including: Olexiy Haran’ (Kiev-Mohyla Academy University), Hryhorij Nemyria (Centre for European and International Studies, Kiev), Oleksandr Sushko (Ukrainian Centre for Peace, Conversion, and Foreign Policy), Aleksander Duleba (Slovak Foreign Policy Association), Zsuzsa Ludvig (Hungarian Institute for World Economy, Budapest), Małgorzata Jakubiak (Centre for Social and Economic Analyses CASE, Warsaw), Joanna Konieczna (Institute of Sociology of the Warsaw University), Joanna Kurczewska (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski (Łódź University), Michael Emerson and Marius Vahl (Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels), and Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham).

The third study visit to Poland and Ukraine was attended by 16 journalists from 11 European Union member states (November 4^th – 11^th, Warsaw, Lublin, Narol, Tomaszów Lubelski, Korczowa, Lviv, Kiev). The purpose of the visit was to present participants with the dynamics of Polish–Ukrainian relations, issues of Poland adopting Schengen agreement requirements, migration, cross-border trade, and closer co-operation in the field of cultural heritage in the border area. In Warsaw, attendants met among others Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Minister of For- eign Affairs, and Marek Siwiec, one of the Ministers in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. In Lublin, they met Archbishop Józef Życiński, and visited a refugee centre. In Kiev, they attended a meeting with Anatolij Zlenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukraine’s Ombudsman Nina Karpacheva, and representatives of the opposition (i.a Julia Timoshenko and Boris Tarasyuk). The visit to a border crossing and walk along the green border were the high points of the tour. As a follow-up to the visit, the European press published a number of articles on Poland and Ukraine, and on relations between the two states in light of European Union enlargement.

This Project was organized in collaboration with the Renaissance Foundation of Kiev, Ji, an independent Lviv magazine, and the Ukrainian-Polish Forum of Kiev.

In co-operation with NATO’s Press and Information Office, a workshop for young political scientists accompanied by experts from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Russia was organized (Warsaw–Brussels, April 22^nd – 29^th). Workshops concerned matters of international security, North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s co-operation with candidate countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), and the US-Russia and NATO-Russia relations in the context of the planned NATO enlargement. Visits to the NATO Headquarters in Brussels and to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Mons formed part of this workshop project.

The project of monitoring Poland’s eastern border was prepared jointly with the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation; non-governmental organizations engaging in international co-operation have been invited to partake. During the period of March through September, nearly 50 non-governmental organizations from all over Poland participated in a questionnaire study involving guests from beyond our eastern border. From July until September, volunteers from the Kętrzyn-based Forum of Local Initiatives, the Polish Scouting Union Regiment Command in Suwałki, the Youth Parliament Association of Przemyśl, and the Pro Academia Narolense Foundation held questionnaire studies at border crossings. In 2003, we will use all the data collected to draft a report on the openness of Polish borders – the future borders of an enlarged European Union.

We began a series of meetings on cultural property moved to the territory of other states in the aftermath of war, occupation or a shift in national borders. At the outset, we organized a conference entitled Displaced Cultural Property. The West European Case vs. Problems of Central and East European Countries in the 20^th Century (Warsaw, January 25^th – 26^th). Panelists invited to speak made an effort to present the above problems against the broader backdrop of national attitudes to cultural heritage, and of the role of national identity in defining cultural heritage and changes to the field over the recent decades. The group of speakers included: Ewa Bieńkowska (culture historian, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw), Mark Bogusławski (lawyer, Institute of State and the Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Nawojka Cieślińska– Lobkowicz (art historian), Hans-Martin Hinz (historian, President of the German – International Council of Museums [ICOM] Committee, Berlin), Zigmantas Kiaupa (historian, Institute of Lithuanian History, Vilnius), Serhij Kot (historian, manager of the Centre for Studies on Problems of Cultural Property Return and Restitution, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, Kiev), Wojciech Kowalski (lawyer, Ambassador ad personam at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw), Aleksandr W. Lipatov (Polish language specialist, Institute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Krzysztof Pomian (philosopher, historian, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Paris), Stefan Turner (lawyer, Research Institute for International Cultural Property Protection, Saarbrücken).

The Gazeta Wyborcza daily assumed media patronage over the conference. The second meeting in Kazimierz Dolny (December 12^th – 13^th 2002) with Polish archivists, librarians and museum custodians concerned cultural property lost to Poland following the war, and relations of Poland with East and West European states and the US in this area. Additionally, issues of private property and of displaced museum collections in Poland during and after World War Two were discussed. The speakers included: Zofia Bandurska (art historian, the National Museum, Wrocław), Lidia Karecka (art historian, the National Museum, Warsaw), Hanna Łaskarzewska (librarian, the National Library, Warsaw), Andrzej Mężyński (historian, the Library of the Sejm - Lower House of the Polish Parliament, Warsaw). The problems of displaced cultural property in the international context were addressed by Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz, Forum for Displaced Cultural Property of the Art Historians’ Association, Warsaw, and the recent Polish disputes of the issue were presented by Piotr Kosiewski, Stefan Batory Foundation.

Co-operation in the Region

The Journalists’ Club project – targeting regional press journalists from Belarus, Poland and Ukraine – comprises a series of study tours to the purpose of establishing a contact network and information exchange, thus raising the number of press articles on conditions prevalent in states of the region, and serving to overcome any existent prejudice and stereotypes.

The first study visit (May 20^th – 24^th, Warsaw, Lublin, Wojcieszków) for journalists from regional Belarus press was organized in collaboration with the Belarus Regional Press Development Foundation. It offered journalists a glance at the Polish situation on the eve of Polish accession to the European Union, and at the potential consequences of the event for Belarus.

The second study visit (September 30^th – October 4^th, Warsaw), with Polish, Ukrainian and Belarus regional press journalists, concerned problems of political and employment migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Our guests attended meetings with experts and representatives of Polish authorities. They visited also an illegal job centre exchange, a deportation custody jail, a refugee centre, and a company offering legal employment to Ukrainians. On day one, journalists attended an international seminar entitled From Censorship to Free Market. The final day involved a summary of the visit, and the drafting of texts describing the situation of immigrants in regions of the journalists’ origin.

We also received a group of Russian journalists (June 21^st – 27^th) representing St. Petersburg and Moscow newspapers (among others Kommersant, Trud, strana.ru), and media from Kaliningrad. The purpose of the visit was to present the Polish situation after more than ten years of change. The agenda involved meetings with representatives of politics (the Parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense), economy, and culture. The visit was co-organized with the Institute for Eastern Studies.

The Towards Regional Partnership project aims at promoting co-operation between organizations from neighboring regions: the Warmia and Mazurian province partnering with the Kaliningrad district. The final part of the project involves internships for 25 representatives of organizations from Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk and Baltijs, co-organised by the Elbląg Association to Support Non-Governmental Initiatives, and the Borussia Cultural Community (March- July, Elbląg, Olsztyn). As part of their internship, our foreign guests were exposed to the everyday work of their Polish colleagues, and drafted plans for future joint work.

Since the year 2000, we have been operating a scholarship program for young scientists from Belarus in the fields of economy, law, and sociology, enabling them to attend internships at Polish universities and research institutions. Each intern is obliged to write an article; top papers are rewarded and published. Internships are to help prepare the community of young Belarusian scientists for reform in their own country.

A number of institutions joined the program on the Polish side: the Institute of Legal Sciences (Warsaw and Wrocław), Jagiellonian University (Institute of Sociology), Warsaw University (Faculty of Microeconomics and Faculty of Political Econom ics), European Institute for Regional and Local Development), Wrocław University (Criminal Law and Forensics Department), Warsaw School of Economics (Faculty of Local Government Economics and Finance), the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), the Institute of International Economic Relations and the Banking Faculty), the Police Academy, the Agency for Industrial Development (Department of Regional Development Support Instruments), the Center for Social and Economic Analyses CASE, and the Constitutional Tribunal.

The following interns enrolled in the program: Andriej Afiarowich (Minsk), Aleksandr Bahdanau (Minsk), Volha Bezukladava (Minsk), Kiryl Dziamidau (Minsk), Julia Hurskaja (Minsk), Andrei Ignatiuk (Minsk), Yulia Minchankava (Gatovo), Aleksey Nistiuk (Dzerzhinsk), Ihar Osipau (Minsk), Irina Paliashchuk (Grodno), Dzianis Pepik (Minsk), Yauheni Rassokha (Minsk), Alena Semchanko (Minsk), Maryna Sluka (Lida), Irina Triachkova (Minsk), Sviataslau Valasyuk (Briest), Maryna Yaromenka (Minsk) and Siarhei Zikracki (Minsk).

All internships were co-funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Poland, MATRA Small Grants Program.

In 2001, we began organizing a series of lectures on Roads to Democracy and the Free Market at universities of Belarus, to debate issues of economic and system transformation in countries of the region. In 2002 lectures on the Polish privatization experience were delivered by Janusz Lewandowski, former Minister of Privatization (May 30^th – May 1^st). Further lectures (December 19^th – 21^st) held by Elżbieta Skotnicka-Illasiewicz and Jakub Konecki (Office of the Committee for European Integration) concerned the Polish road to the European Union, the schedule and history of our negotiations, and the economic and social consequences of Poland joining the European Community. Furthermore, lecturers and panelists attended meetings with students of the Economic University, the Belarus State University, the European University of Humanities, the Institute of Legal Sciences, as well as with politicians and journalists.

All lectures have been organized in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Minsk.

Reforms for Belarus are a new project initiating joint work of independent Belarus expert communities on suites of recommendations concerning the desired fields of change in Belarus. The project comprises a series of seminars, to result in a publication presenting the possible scenarios of future reforms in Belarus.

The first seminar (September 6^th – 8^th, Minsk) involved the drafting of a tentative outline of topics and issues by a group of Belarusian experts. The Polish specialists participated in the session included Prof. Dariusz Filar (economist) and Dr. Tomasz Żukowski (sociologist). Experts from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine will be invited to partake in follow-up works. The project is co-funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.

The Extracurricular Education project aims to boost the community involvement and improve the professional skills of Belarusian teachers, as a group with considerable capacity for impacting the process of establishing the civic society in Belarus.

On February 23^rd – 24^th we organized a conference on Extracurricular Education in Poland in Minsk. It was attended by Belarusian teachers (former participants of six 2001 study visits to Poland), representatives of Belarusian Teacher Colleges, non-governmental organizations, and the press. The conference was an opportunity for exchanging experience, as well as for a debate on problems relating to educating young people, and on options of resolving such problems in trilateral co-operation involving schools, non-governmental organizations, and local authorities.

We also prepared three consecutive study visits for thirty teachers from Belarus (May 5^th – 12^th, May 19^th – 26^th, June 2^nd – 9^th). The objective of those visits was to present forms of extracurricular work with children and young people, and to adopt state-of-the-art methods in didactics. In the course of the pro- gram, our guests from Belarus visited private and public schools, as well as community culture clubs and non-governmental organizations working with children and young people. A crucial element of the visit involved a presentation of local community options for co-operation between central and local government agencies, non-governmental organizations, schools, teachers and parents.

Teachers attending study visits were offered internship opportunities with one of the three institutions applying a variety of methods in their work with young people: the Raft Association from Olsztyn, the Castle Museum in Malbork, and the Monar Association in Gdańsk. Fifteen teachers participated in the internship program (November 5^th – 15^th).

The Alternative History project was launched in 2000 jointly with the editing office of the Mówią Wieki [Speak Ages] monthly magazine to promote innovative methods of teaching history in schools.

During the period of 2000-2001, four meetings with secondary schools students and teachers from Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were organized; three brochures (Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Lithuanian, and Polish-Belarusian) containing meeting materials were published.

In 2002, a fourth brochure was published, entitled Alternative History. A Teachers’ Meeting (quadrolingual: Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian) containing material and papers from meetings attended by teachers heading all the student groups from four countries. The introduction to the brochure was written by the historians: Rafał Jaworski of the Warsaw University, and Jarosław Krawczyk and Bogusław Kubisz of the Mówią Wieki. In 2002 a Polish-Russian meeting was organized (Warsaw, Kazimierz Dolny, December 4^th – 7^th 2002), attended by student and teacher representatives of the Stanisław Wyspiański Secondary School (Biecz), the 9^th Secondary School (Bydgoszcz), the Electronics and Power Engineering School (Wałbrzych), School no. 40 from Kaliningrad, and a school from Rostov-on-Don. Following the pattern of previous workshops, students from each school were to draft short papers on selected events from their common history (on the basis of What if format). Those papers were later discussed and assessed by workshop participants. The Velikaya Smuta period was chosen as a theme for the Polish-Russian workshop. Breakout sessions were preceded by lectures delivered by historians and political sciences experts: Aleksandr Lavrentiev (State Historical Museum, Moscow), Andrzej de Lazari (Łódź University), and Tomasz Bohun and Rafał Jaworski (Warsaw University).

Transatlantic Co-operation

The seminar entitled From Censorship to the Free Market – New Threats for Journalism in Eastern Europe (Warsaw, September 30^th) was attended by foreign journalists – former western (chiefly American) correspondents in Poland in the eighties, and by journalists from Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. The debate focused on two topics: Government and the Media – Partners or Opponents? Journalists and Publishers – Service or Profit? Eugene Patterson (St. Petersburg Times, Pulitzer Prize winner) and Maciej Łukasiewicz (editor-in-chief of the Rzeczpospolita daily) delivered keynote addresses. The panelists included: John Darnton (The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner), Michael Dobbs (The Washington Post), Grzegorz Gauden (President of the Presspublica, and president of the Polish Chamber of Books, Bradley Graham (The Washington Post), Wiktor Osiatyński (lawyer and columnist), Victoria Pope (US News and World Report), Wanda Rapaczyńska (President of Agora S.A.), Doug Stanglin (USA Today), John Tagliabue (The New York Times), Maciej Wierzyński (editor-in-chief of Nowy Dziennik), Mariusz Ziomecki (editor-in-chief of Profit), and Jacek Żakowski (columnist).

The seminar was organized in collaboration with InterAccess Inc., and the Rzeczpospolita daily editing office, with financial support from the US Embassy, the LOT Polish Airlines, and VISA.

We organized three visits of American GMMF scholars to Poland (Cracow- Warsaw, March 15^th – 20^th, June 14^th – 19^th, October 25^th – 30^th) to present Poland’s recent problems and achievements as well as development prospects. During the meetings Polish political and social perspective was discussed, as was the situation of the Catholic Church alongside religious and ethnic minorities in Poland; other topics encircled changes in the educational system and the non-governmental sector development.

The visit was organized in collaboration with the German Marshall Memorial Fund of the United States.

Social Diplomacy

Since the spring of 2001, a Foundation-initiated Working Group of Polish NGOs Acrtive Internationally has been in operation. In 2002, the group completed works on the Partnership for Foreign Policy document, offering suggestions on co-operation between NGOs and public authorities. The document was presented at the Social Diplomacy conference. Proposals set out in the document were approved by the Minister of Foreign Affairs; group’s representatives were invited to co-found the Council for co-operation with non-governmental organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Additionally, a paper on International Activity of Polish Non-Governmental Organizations was published, describing the Polish organizations’ work in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as youth exchange programs and cross-border co-operation between Poland and her eastern neighbors. Furthermore, a www.go2east.ngo.pl website was set up for purposes of presenting the work of Polish non-governmental organizations abroad. Working group representatives took part in the annual Economic Forum in Krynica, where achievements of Polish non-governmental organizations operating in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia were presented.

The Batory Foundation initiated a debate on co-operation between non-governmental and state institutions responsible for Poland’s foreign policy – the first meeting of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and non-governmental organizations working abroad took place in Falenty in December 1999.

On June 26^th – 27^th 2002, the conference on Social Diplomacy was organized, attended by representatives of more than one hundred Polish non-governmental organizations and state agency servants. Keynote speeches on social diplomacy were delivered by Bronisław Geremek and Cornelio Sommaruga, former President of the International Red Cross Committee. Representatives of organizations from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Canada presented their home country models of co-operation between the third sector and state institutions responsible for foreign policy.

The Partnership for Foreign Policy document drafted by the working group of Polish NGOs acrtive internationally was presented during the conference. Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs attending the conference, approved the majority of postulates presented as part of the document, supporting among others the idea of establishing consultation council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He invited the representatives of the third sector to the interdisciplinary Council for the Promotion of Poland planned by the Government, and promised to include the problems of non-governmental organizations working abroad in the curricula of training sessions for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs employees. The Minister spoke at length about the issue of introducing visas for Poland’s eastern neighbors; he also suggested support for the concept of increasing budgetary funds to be allocated for purposes of youth exchanges between Poland and countries along her eastern border.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we engaged in the process of recruiting observers of local elections in Kosovo. Moreover, we helped select non-governmental organization representatives to attend internation- al missions during elections in Montenegro, Macedonia, and the Ukraine. We have opened a web discussion group on mwolontariat@batory.org.pl, a communication forum for people interested in volunteering abroad.

Polish Non-Governmental Organizations on EU Integration

On May 9^th 2001, a group of several non-governmental organizations founded a Polish NGO Office in Brussels. The office is administered by the Association for the Forum on Non-Governmental Initiatives, the representative, chosed in an open competition, is Paweł Krzeczunowicz. Operation of the Representative Office is financed by Foundation’s grant and by membership dues paid by the signatories of the Representative Office’s Charter. The Office offers services to founding members. All NGOs have free-of-charge use of the constantly updated information bulletin accessible at www.ngo.pl. The Office works to bring Polish non-governmental organizations in the European network representing a variety of third sector fields; monitors European funding for non-governmental organizations; engages in promoting the Polish third sector in the European Union; and keeps Poles informed of European non-governmental organizations (Eulotka – for Polish organizations and institutions, and Newsletter – for foreign organizations and institutions).

For the second time, we organized a competition on simulations of EU accession negotiations for high school students. The Batory Foundation joined efforts with the National In-service Teacher Training Center, supported by the Junior Achievement Foundation, the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, and the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation. The competition was organized under the auspices of the Chief Negotiator of the Republic of Poland and the European Commission’s Representative Office in Poland. The Rzeczpospolita daily and the Unia & Polska magazine became media patrons for the second edition of the event.

More than 700 schools from throughout Poland stepped forward to partake in the three contest phases (school and regional competitions followed by national finals). The contest was also an opportunity for local communities to engage in debates on the Polish entry into the European Union; subsequent contest phases involved community events: festivals, European Days, referenda organized by schools in collaboration with local partners. Four teams were recognized as contest winners: Secondary School from Żagań, the School Complex from Olesno, Secondary School No. 3 from Tarnów, and Secondary School No. 14 from Wrocław. Winners received Young Negotiator Certificate, and together with the teachers-team supervisors and regional contest coordinators went for a study visit to European institutions in Brussels. Additionally, three special awards were funded by the Embassy of Spain: the Primus inter pares title went to the School Complex from Olesno; Damian Śmierzchalski, the Żagań team leader, was awarded the Talented Negotiator distinction; and the Commercial and Economic School Complex from Białystok was rewarded for the best visual presentation by young negotiators. During the finals the Jury announced the results of a mini-contest for the title of Regional Reporter of Become a Negotiator! competition: five equal prizes went to five winners.

The Negotiator’s Vademecum materials developed for the competition (student and teacher handbooks and CD-ROM) are used as a teaching aid in European education. Additionally, a ZostanNegocjatorem@ngo.pl discussion group was set up for young negotiators and teachers. Footage shot during the competition and the winners’ study visit to Brussels was used by the public TV to produce and broadcast a series of eight Negotiator educational movies.

The 3^rd edition of the competition, announced in October, focuses on the negotiations of the Polish position on reforms the European Union faces in the near future.

On the initiative of the Open Society Institute Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative and in the cooperation with Pre-accession and Structural Programs of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy the Foundation organized a workshop on European Social Fund and the implementation of monitoring system in Poland (June 5-7, Sulejówek). In the workshop conducted in a form of simulation game by the German BBJ firm participated representatives of ministries, regional labor offices, public institutions and non-governmental organizations.

We produced four booklets in a series Poles in EU: Consumers, Education, SME and a handbook for organizers of educational meetings – Europe in an Interesting Way. Our publications describe opportunities stemming from Polish European Union membership; we present EU assistance programs, and make an effort to answer difficult questions. We want our booklets to support a general debate on European issues in local Polish communities. Our publications target people active in their local communities, non-governmental organizations, mayors, journalists, SMEs, and teachers. Booklets are disseminated in collaboration with a variety of institutions including Regional European Information Centers, the SPLOT Non-governmental Organizations Support Network Centers, Foundation in Support of Local Democracy centers, County Spokespersons for Consumer Rights, the In-service Teachers Training Center, Euro-info Centers, and the Polish Agency for Entrepreneurship Development. The main partner of this project is Unia & Polska magazine.

We produced a publication entitled European Education in Polish Schools – Papers and Materials. The publication contains a suite of expert papers on the condition of European education in Polish schools, and comments by politicians.

The Foundation works with the World Bank and the Bertelsmann Foundation as part of the euintegration.net project targeting the development of valuable European Union reference material on the web, and more efficient information exchange among EU candidate countries. Our task is to encourage Polish institutions to engage in a joint effort to found a web-based library with a collection of reports, analyses and papers drafted in candidate states on selected topics concerning EU integration.

Grants to Support Partnership Programs