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22 January 2025

Webinar: Defining Pro-Russian and Anti-Western Narratives in the Black Sea region

Webinar: Feb 7th – 8am-9:30 am (PST) – 17:00-18:30 CET European Time Registration link The disinformation phenomenon has become a large-scale international process and part of the coordinated foreign policy strategy of malicious actors. However, efforts to counter it remain very limited to a micro-level perspective. As the beginning of the year is a perfect time to reflect on...

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19 September 2024

NATO’s inland sea: security in the Baltic Sea Region after the enlargement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization- Institute of Central Europe Panel at the XXXIII Economic Forum in Karpacz / September 4th, 2024

The Institute is hosting a panel discussion titled “Nato’s inland sea security in the Baltic Sea Region after the enlargement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization “scheduled to take place September 4th ,2024, at 6:25 pm as part of the XXXIII Economic Forum in Karpacz. Moderator: Dr. Damian Szacawa, Institute of Central EuropePanelists: Niklas...

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10 September 2024

Damian Szacawa participated in the opening event of the Polish Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region in Warsaw / 10 September 2024

Damian Szacawa, Senior Analyst in the Department of the Baltics at the Institute of Central Europe took part in a panel entitled ‘Security, resilience, disinformation, civil protection and support to Ukraine – What impact will they have on all Policy Areas’ at the opening event of the Polish Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region. The event, which was...

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3 September 2024

Difficult times, necessary steps- debate on security in Central Europe-Institute of Central Europe Panel at the XXXIII Economic Forum in Karpacz / September 3rd, 2024.

Difficult times, necessary steps- debate on security in Central Europe-Institute of Central Europe Panel at the XXXIII Economic Forum in Karpacz / September 3rd, 2024. The Institute is hosting the panel discussion, “Challenging Times, Necessary Steps – A Debate on Security in Central Europe,” which will take place on September 3rd, 2024, at 3:30 PM as part of...

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19 July 2024

Jesteśmy partnerem XXXIII Forum Ekonomicznego w Karpaczu, 3 – 5 września 2024 r.

Już 3 września 2024 r. w Hotelu Gołębiewski w Karpaczu rozpocznie się XXXIII edycja Forum Ekonomicznego – jednego z największych wydarzeń gospodarczo-politycznych w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej. Forum, podczas którego spotykają się liderzy o decydującym wpływie na losy Polski, Europy i Świata, organizowane jest przez Instytut Studiów Wschodnich. Głównym...

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11 July 2024

IEŚ POLICY PAPERS: THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY IN THE VISEGRÁD COUNTRIES – CURRENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVES. REDAKCJA: JAKUB BORNIO

IEŚ POLICY PAPERS: THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY IN THE VISEGRÁD COUNTRIES – CURRENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVES. REDAKCJA: JAKUB BORNIO Jakub Bornio, Visegrád Group defence industry: global outlook, regional needs, intra-V4 cooperationPetr Svatoň, Will the war in Ukraine revive the Czech Republic’s once great arms industry?Péter Marton, The Hungarian defence industry:...

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11 July 2024

Seminarium: NATO at 75: NATO Summit in Washington and security of Central and Eastern Europe / 15.07.2024

NATO at 75: NATO Summit in Washington and security of Central and Eastern Europe Place: Lubelskie Centrum Konferencyjne (LCK, ul. Grottgera 2, 20-029 Lublin) Time: 15.07.2024 9:30 – 9:45: Opening remarks: Beata Surmacz, Director, Institute of Central Europe9:45-11:15 Panel I: NATO Summit in Washington: Expectations and Reality11:15-11:45: Coffee break11:45-13:15 Panel...

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14 June 2024

Łukasz Lewkowicz and Marlena Gołębiowska at the conference The Three Seas Initiative as a subject of academic research: regional cooperation in Central Europe in different approaches / June 10, 2024

Analysts from the Institute of Central Europe – Łukasz Lewkowicz and Marlena Gołębiowska – participated in the conference The Three Seas Initiative as a Subject of Academic Research: Regional Cooperation in Central Europe in Different Approaches on June 10, 2024. They took part in the panel The State of Knowledge on the Three Seas Initiative in Central...

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8 May 2024

Dr Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik participated in the joint meeting of the Security and Defence Committee and the Health, Welfare and Family Committee of the Baltic Assembly / 25–26 April 2024

Dr Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik, head of the Department of the Baltics, participated in the joint meeting of the Security and Defence Committee and the Health, Welfare and Family Committee of the Baltic Assembly held on 25–26 April 2024 in Vilnius-Rukla. Dr Kuczyńska-Zonik presented an introductory report on boosting civic aspects of defence in the Baltic States during the...

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12 April 2024

Seminar: Security of the Baltic Sea Region after Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO / 16 April 2024

Seminar Security of the Baltic Sea Region after Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO: 9:00-9:15 Opening remarksdr hab. Beata Surmacz, prof. UMCS, Dyrektor Instytutu Europy Środkowejdr hab. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG, Dyrektor Instytutu Politologii UG9:15-9:45 Presentation of the Institute of Central Europe and the Institute of Political Science University of...

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12 April 2024

SEMINAR BY INSTITUTE OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND INITIATIVE FOR PEACE (I4P): DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / APRIL 16, 2024

Seminar by Institute of Central Europe and Initiative for Peace (I4P): Domestic and International Challenges for European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Date: April 16, 2024 Time: 10.00 AM Place: Solidarity Fund PL in Moldova office in Chisinau, Sfatul Țării 27 st., of. 45 Alexandru Flanchea, Initiative for Peace (moderator)Adrian Ermurachi, Institute for...

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2 April 2024

REPORT: A WORLD ORDER IN TRANSFORMATION?: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR AND REACTIONS TO THESE CHANGES IN THE REGION / April 2, 2024

Analysts from the Institute of Central Europe: Dr. hab. Tomasz Stępniewski, Dr. Jakub Bornio, and Dr. Damian Szacawa co-authored this year’s report, published by Södertörn University, Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), titled “A World Order in Transformation?: A Comparative Study of Consequences of the War and Reactions to These Changes in the...

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13 February 2024

Serhii Plokhii in Conversation with T. Stępniewski: Russia-Ukraine War, and Poland-Ukraine Relations

Serhii Plokhii in Conversation with T. Stępniewski: Russia-Ukraine War, and Poland-Ukraine Relations Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine....

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1 December 2023

On November 14 Spasimir Domaradzki participated in the Violent Right-Wing Extremism in Bulgaria and Hungary

On November 14 Spasimir Domaradzki participated in the Violent Right-Wing Extremism in Bulgaria and Hungary organized by Counter Extremism Project and GLOBSEC. The seminar focused on the conclusions of the joint GLOBSEC and Counter Extremism Project Report “Mapping Right-Wing Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe“. Spasimir Domaradzki explored the far-right...

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18 November 2023

We invite you to watch the webinar: “Burning Bridges to the Past: Battles for Historical Memory in Central and Eastern Europe” / 30 November 2023

We invite you to watch the webinar “Burning Bridges to the Past: Battles for Historical Memory in Central and Eastern Europe” ParticipantsProfessor Rasa Čepaitienė, Lithuanian Institute of History Professor Georgiy Kasianov, Head of the Laboratory for International Memory Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin Associate Professor Yurii Latysh, European...

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10 November 2023

Jakub Olchowski participated in the Ukrainian Central European Forum 2023 in Lviv

Jakub Olchowski participated in the Ukrainian Central European Forum 2023 in Lviv on November 7-8. EU Enlargement: Obstacles, Lessons Learned, Achievement  Moderator:  Hennadiy MAKSAK, Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” (UA) Speakers:  Jakub OLCHOWSKI, Head Of Department of Institute of Central Europe (PL)  Dmytro...

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13 October 2023

Dr Hanna Bazhenova participated in the International Scientific Conference “Genocides: the Reality of the Past and the Present”, 29 September 2023.

On 29 September 2023, Dr Hanna Bazhenova from the Eastern Team of the Institute of Central Europe participated in the International Scientific Conference “Genocides: the Reality of the Past and the Present”, organized by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania in Vilnius. During the conference, Dr Hanna...

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25 September 2023

Webinarium: Russian disinformation and war in Ukraine how to become immune to propaganda / 14 September 2023

Centre for Europe of University of Warsaw, Institute of Central Europe and Centre for International Relations invite you to a webinar Russian disinformation and war in Ukraine: how to become immune to propaganda?. The webinar is part of a project entitled “Polish Experience in Combating Disinformation – Inspirations for the Western Balkans”. This is a public task...

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8 September 2023

Marlena Gołębiowska and Łukasz Lewkowicz at the Three Seas Summit and Business Forum 2023 in Bucharest

Analysts from the Institute of Central Europe, Marlena Gołębiowska and Łukasz Lewkowicz, were present at the Business Forum during the 8th Summit of the Three Seas Initiative in Bucharest, accompanying a study visit organized as part of a project Three Seas Initiative Research Center.In the two-day event (September 6 and 7), they participated in a presidential panel, where the...

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13 July 2023

2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES

2023  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES THE JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN, POLANDBUCAK FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, BURDUR MEHMET AKIF ERSOY UNIVERSITY, TURKIYEINSTITUTE OF CENTRAL EUROPE, POLAND  14th July 2023, 12:00 PM (Time in Warsaw, GMT+2) Welcome speech Bartosz JÓŹWIK, Rafał LIZUT, Osman AKIN, and...

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