Network Sponsors
Assessing Accession - Central & Eastern Europe in the EU is grateful to a number of organisations and institutions for their support. If you are associated with a research centre or organisation that works on issues relating to the study and/or evaluation of the EU's eastern enlargement then please consider becoming a linked partner with Assessing Accession, either as a funding sponsor or in a non-funding supporters capacity. For further information please send an email to Assessing Accession using our Contact Us form.
Funding has been provided by:
UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies)
UACES provides an independent forum for informed debate and discussion of European affairs. It is directly involved in promoting research and teaching in European Studies.
UACES is one of the world’s premier European Studies associations. The Association has an expanding membership, with more than a quarter based outside of the UK. Since 1969, UACES has brought together academics involved in researching and teaching on Europe with practitioners active in European affairs. It encourages the involvement of people from a variety of disciplines which have a European emphasis. UACES sponsors numerous events and hosts its own annual research conference. It also has an active student body (UACES Student Forum) and publishes the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) and the JCER | Journal of Contemporary European Research. It also publishes, in association with Routledge, the Contemporary European Studies (CES) interdisciplinary book series.
For more information please contact Sue Davis or see the UACES Website.
Department of Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow
CEES is recognised as one of the World's leading centres for the study of Russian, Central & East European region. In the most recent UK Research Assessment Exercise the Department came top in Scotland is ranked joint fifth in the UK among European Studies Departments with 85% of its research recognised as being of international, internationally excellent or world leading quality. CEES is also acknowledged by the Economic & Social Research Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council as a centre of excellence.
CEES offers a number of Undergraduate (Joint & Single Honours) and Postgraduate Degree programmes, including its new International Masters in Russian, Central & East European Studies.
CEES publishes Europe-Asia Studies, which is the principal academic journal in the world focusing on the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former 'communist bloc' of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. At the same time, the journal explores the economic, political and social transformation of these countries and the changing character of their relationships with the rest of Europe and Asia. CEES also currently hosts the Journal of Baltic Studies and the JCER | Journal of Contemporary European Research.
For more information please contact Maggie Baister or visit the CEES website.
Centre for Russian, Central & East European Studies (CRCEES)
CRCEES is a new inter-institutional Centre of Excellence established under the Language-Based Area Studies initiative supported by the ESRC, AHRC, Scottish Funding Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The CRCEES network is made up of 8 UK universities, including Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham, St Andrews, Strathclyde & West of Scotland. International partners include Charles University (Prague), Corvinus University (Budapest), Jagellonian University (Kraków), Tartu University (Estonia) & Ul'ianovsk State University (Russia).
CRCEES has provided funding to support the 1st and 2nd Assessing Accession Annual Research Symposiums.
For more information please contact CRCEES Director Mr Richard Berry or visit the CRCEES website.
BASEES (British Assocation for Slavonic and East European Studies)
BASEES is the UK's main association for Slavonic and East European Studies. It exists to 'advance education for the public benefit in the UK in the humanities and the social sciences as they relate to the former Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe'.
BASEES holds its annual conference in late March/early April in Cambridge. BASEES is also active on behalf of its members in dealings with government, with other associations and with individual universities. It was involved in the discussions that led to a series of new HEFCE-sponsored appointments in 1995 and works with other area studies associations in the Co-ordinating Council for Area Studies Associations. BASEES is also associated with the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
For more information please see the BASEES website.