Workshops on the study of the civil service in Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova
Facts
- Contact person:
- Michel Vincent Anderlini
- Financer:
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- Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) - The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences
- Responsible at MaU:
- Michel Vincent Anderlini
- Project members at MaU:
- External project members:
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- Igor Sikorsky – Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Kyiv Ukraine
- Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev (Professor of Social Sciences) - Kyiv School of Economics
- Gennady Korzhov and Igor Sikorsky – Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
- Oliver Reisner (Professor) - Ilia State University in Tbilisi Georgia
- Archil Abashidze (Associate Professor) - Ilia State University
- Giorgi Khishtovani (Associate Professor) - Ilia State University
- Mariana Iatco (Associate Professor) - State University of Moldova in Chisinau Moldava
- Victoria Bevziuc (Associate Professor) - State University of Moldova
- Natalia Putina (Associate Professor) - State University of Moldova
- Olga Burdila (PhD Student) - State University of Moldova
- Time frame:
- 01 September 2025 - 30 April 2026
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About the project
The project aims to plan and organise four workshops to define and delimit a new line of research on the public service of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova and its role(s) in the European integration of those countries.
Those four workshops aim at establishing a network of key researchers that will serve two different purposes:
- Create a new conceptual foundation on how to study the role(s) of the public service in implementing EU-supported reforms and
- Collaborate on a future, larger-scale application, notably an ERC Starting Grant.
This new research line is both timely and necessary. Indeed, the successful implementation of reforms needed for the future EU accession of the three countries is of crucial importance for the entire region, but to date, little is known about how civil servants understand their mandate in this process. For example, do they perceive themselves to be working for the state and the public interest, and/or for the elected politicians?
All of the four workshops will be organised in 2025/2026 at Malmö University in hybrid mode (to facilitate the participation of Ukrainian scholars) and will discuss how to initiate such new research line: conceptual tools to study post-soviet public administrations (workshop 1), methodological opportunities and challenges (workshop 2), practical tools to conduct this new research (workshop 3) and preparation for a larger research fund application (workshop 4).