The Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISP PAN) has established the Research Centre of the Three Seas Initiative. The unit will carry out analytical work on both individual countries and the international system as a whole.
The Three Seas Initiative brings together 12 Central European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Its aim is to work on economic development, but also other issues that should be crucial for this international format were highlighted at last year’s Three Seas Self-Government Congress. One of these issues is science and education, especially at the university level. Among other things, the congress discussed the establishment of a network of universities from the Central European area, along the lines of European universities.
The establishment of the Research Centre of the Trilateral Initiative aims to extend cooperation to the scientific and expert level. The unit will serve to popularise and develop scientific knowledge and research on the Initiative. It is the intention of the initiators of the Centre to be the foundation of an international network linking research actors with each other and with other institutions operating in the socio-economic sphere of the Three Seas region.
“In a broad sense, our research will cover the economic, political and social dimensions of the Three Seas Initiative. In a narrower perspective, we intend to focus on energy, infrastructure, digital and security issues of the region, including social policy”, announces project leader Dr Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek from the Department of Central and Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Studies of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In addition to researchers from the Institute of Central Europe and the Centre for Eastern Studies, the Centre will also involve researchers from other institutions, including the Institute of Central Europe and the Centre for Eastern Studies.
Arkadiusz Słomczyński