The EU-Eastern Partnership Countries: Association Agreements and Transdisciplinarity in Studies, Training and Research

• Authors: Tatyana Muravska , Alexandre Berlin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The European Union (EU) signed Association Agreements on 27 June 2014 with Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The Association Agreement (AA) is the EU’s main instrument to bring the countries in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) closer to EU standards and norms. For the citizens of the EaP countries to benefit from these agreements, a more in-depth knowledge of the EU and the EU Member States is required to be reflected in a comparative approach to European Union studies. We examine these implications on the need to expand and adapt, the content and approach to research and teaching European Union studies, with the transdisciplinary approach becoming increasingly dominant, becoming a modern tool for research in social sciences. This contribution aims to offer insight into the implementation of transdisciplinarity in the methodology of education and research as it is determined by current increasing global challenges. This approach should serve as a means of integrating a number of main goals as part of learning, teaching and research processes: strengthening employability of young people and preparing them for citizenship. We discuss the need for modernizing European studies in the EU Member States that could serve as an example for the EU Eastern Partnership countries. We conclude that the theoretical approach to European and related studies of other disciplines and their practical implications should always be transdisciplinary in nature and benefit from direct in-situ exposure and should be fully integrated in university curricula

Keywords

EN

cooperation; European Union studies; implications of EU-Eastern Partnership; transdisciplinarity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of European Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 134-149

Dates

published

2014-10-01

online

2014-11-05

Contributors

author

Tatyana Muravska

• University of Latvia, Raina 19, Riga LV 1585, Latvia

author

Alexandre Berlin

• European Commission 121 d’Italie, Paris 75013, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bjes-2014-0020