Media partners

Le Courrier d’Europe Centrale

Le Courrier d’Europe Centrale is the Francophone reference media in Central Europe. Based in Budapest, it relies on a wide network of correspondents in the region to offer daily news, interviews, and reports on Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Romania.

Kafkadesk

Founded in 2018, Kafkadesk is a news and feature online media covering Central Europe and Visegrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary). Its network of writers and contributors are dedicated to fostering a better understanding of a region that receives little international attention.

New Eastern Europe

New Eastern Europe is the exclusive bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs published by the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław. The editorial offices are located in Kraków, Poland. The mission of New Eastern Europe is to shape the debate, enhance understanding, and further the dialogue surrounding issues facing the states that were once a part of the Soviet Union or under its influence. New Eastern Europe is not a scholarly journal, but takes a more journalistic approach with commentary/analysis from journalists, experts, analysts, writers, historians, as well as leaders and political figures from the East and the West.

Voices on Central Asia

Voices on Central Asia is a new platform for scholars, authors, and journalists interested in Central Asia. It provides them with innovative visual tools with which to interact with a worldwide audience. Research insights, policy discussions, fieldwork recollections, photos, charts, and data—all are made available in an appealing and concise format, engaging viewers and inviting opinions from around the globe on everything that matters for and about Central Asia.

Lazy Women

Lazy Women is an open platform created by young women to amplify the voices of those identifying with womanhood all over the world. Lazy Women consists of a growing team of writers and creatives, from a wide range of nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds and lived experiences.

osTraum

osTraum is a German online journal founded in 2016 in Berlin by Maria Gerasimova & Aleksej Tikhonov. The idea behind osTraum was and is to compensate the deficit of cultural topics from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus, and Central Asia in German media. With several hundred articles and a team of around 20 authors, osTraum is today the most-read German online medium in this range of topics. 

Academic partners

Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

CRCEES brings together specialists in a wide variety of research areas within the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, who have the requisite knowledge for understanding the legacies and problems of the post-communist world, and who are acquainted with the principal theoretical frameworks relevant to this region.

Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (JSIPS), University of Tartu, Estonia

JSIPS combines both top-level scholarly research and an international learning environment at all three levels of higher education. The research areas within JSIPS encompass the main subfields of Political Science (Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory) as well as area studies (Russian and East European Studies, European Studies). It belongs to the top 10 best departments of Politics in the Nordic-Baltic region and 101-150 Politics & International Studies departments worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2019).

Other partners

Euro Créative

Based in Paris since 2019, Euro Créative is an independent and non-profit think tank focused on Central and Eastern Europe. Given the lack of specialized actors working on this region in France, Euro Créative has the ambition to become the most important French organization regarding the multi-thematic and transdisciplinary study of Central and Eastern Europe. Our platform of reflection will thus play a role in stimulating relations between France and the countries of the region.