Welcome to the website of the ENRI-East project!

ENRI-East is an international research effort undertaken by a network of eleven teams embracing more than 50 scientists from ten EU and CIS countries.  We work closely together to acquire new knowledge and achieve a deeper understanding of the interplay of European, national and regional identities evolving along the new eastern borders of the European Union.

Project News

ENRI-East at conference held in Brussels by the European Commission

21.12.2011

ENRI-East Principal Investigator, Prof. Hans-Georg Heinrich, is invited to attend the conference “The Development of European Identities: Policy and Research Issues” to be held in Brussels in February 2012.
This conference will address this extremely timely question for Europe and the European Commission, especially in the current context of financial, economic and social crises. The conference will be centred on projects in the field of European identity/identities (like ENRI-East) and will bring together those currently active in European identity/identities research and those involved in policy-making at the European level. NGOs and citizens are also welcome to join in and to voice their opinions on the suggested topics.
For further information and registration please contact rtd-ssh-events@ec.europa.eu

ENRI-East at the ASN Joint Conference in Moscow

13.10.2011

On 29 September - 1 October 2011 the ASN joint conference “Twenty years later (1991-2011): The reshaping of space and identity” took place in Moscow, Russia. ENRI-East experts participated in the panels “European, National and Regional Identities in CIS and Neighboring Post-Socialist Countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland)” and “Structure and Dynamics of National and Regional Identities in Russia and the CIS”. Download the Conference Programme here (PDF).

ENRI-East at the 10. ESA Conference

6.09.2011

Many ENRI-East experts take part in the 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association “Social relations in turbulent Times”, 7-10 September 2011 in Geneva (CH). Prof. Claire Wallace (University of Aberdeen) organises the research stream “European, National And Regional Identities” which accommodates several papers, inclusive ENRI-East papers Abstract Book (RS 22).

Website News

ENRI-East Final Open Events

8.04.2011

We invite practitioners, representatives of the policy and legislative communities as well as representatives of the civil society and the academic sphere to take part at our final project events:

  • ENRI-East Final Open Conference in Brussels, Belgium
  • Date: 26 September 2011
    Location: European Economic and Social Committee
    Start: 09:30 h

  • ENRI-East Regional Workshop in Trnava/Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Date:16 and 17 June 2011

  • ENRI-East Regional Workshop in Riga, Latvia
  • Date: 26 and 27 May 2011

    ENRI-East Steering Committee Meeting in Yalta/Ukraine, Sept. 2010

    25.11.2010

    See pictures from the last ENRI-East Steering Committee meeting in Yalta/Ukraine 21-26 September 2010.

    New pictures available

    13.06.2009

    New pictures from the last Steering Committee meeting in Budapest 4-6 June 2009.