Projects

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PD-PCF experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Sharon Pardo (BGU, Israel), Dr Hila Zahavi (BGU, Israel)

Early career researchers at UC: Alexander Malkov (PhD Candidate, NCRE, UC, NZ), Daniela Grimberg (PhD Candidate, Department of Media and Communication, UC, NZ), Dr Suvo Bandopadhyaya (Department of Media and Communication, UC, NZ)

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13-country project “External Perceptions of the EU and EU Policies: Update Study 2021” commissioned by the European Union

PD-PCF UC is in the Core Team leading the 13-country project on external perceptions of the EU “Continuity and Change. The Update Study 2021” commissioned by Foreign Policy Instruments Division (FPI) of the European Commission in collaboration with European External Action Service (EEAS) Public Diplomacy division, a highly contested tender (total funding $1,184,000). The project is a consortium led by B&S Europe of Belgium (management /backstopping team) and implemented by Research Institute PPMI of Lithuania and PD-PCF UC. Professor Natalia Chaban, PD-PCF Director, is a Team Leader. Dr Iana Sabatovych and Dr Pauline Heinrichs, PD-PCF UC Adjuncts, are Methods Leads. This 9-months project is commissioned by the EU as a part of the consultation process to shape the next programming cycle of the EU Public Diplomacy globally. It studies framing of the EU in traditional and social media, among the general public, educated youth and national policy- and decision-makers.

The research team is 36 experts.

See the full list of the involved researchers:

CORE TEAM:

Natalia Chaban, Team Leader, PD-PCF UC
Haroldas Brožaitis, Core Team Coordinator, PPMI
Iana Sabatovych, Core Team Member, PD-PCF UC
Pauline Heinrichs, Core Team Member, PD-PCF UC
Manon Huchet-Bodet, Core Team Member, PPMI
Elizabete Vizgunova-Vikmane, Core Team Member, PPMI
Eigirdas Sabaliauskas, Core Team Member, PPMI
Tamas Toth, Core Team Member, PPMI
Ekaterina Bobrovnikova, Core Team Member, PPMI
Kateryna Pryschepa, Core Team Member, PPMI
Vilius Raišuotis, Core Team Member, PPMI
Justinas Didika, Core Team Member, PPMI

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE EXPERTS:

Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
Ole Elgström, University of Lund
Michèle Knodt, Technical University Darmstadt
Jan Melissen, University of Antwerp

COUNTRY EXPERTS:

Brazil: Dr. Andrea Ribeiro Hoffman, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; Dr. Paula Sandrin, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Canada: Dr. Antoine Rayroux, CESO Development Consultants; Alix Vuitton, University of Montreal
China: Dr. Thomas Christiansen, Luiss University; anonymous Chinese researcher
Colombia: Dr. Eric Tremolada Alvarez, Externado de Colombia University; Andrea Quiroga, freelance research assistant
India: Dr. Karine Lisbonne de Vergeron, Global Policy Institute; Dr. Preeti Dibyendu Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Sheetal Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Indonesia: Dr. Paramitaningrum, BINUS University
Japan: Dr. Michito Tsuruoka, Keio University
Mexico: Dr. Roberto Dominguez, Suffolk University
Russia: Dr. Elena Ananieva, Russian Academy of Sciences
South Africa: Dr. John Kotsopulous, Global Affairs Canada
South Korea: Dr. Sae Won Chung, Pukyong National University; Hoyoon Jung, Pukyong National University
US: Dr. Babak Bahador, George Washington University; Dr. Roberto Dominguez, Suffolk University
Nigeria: Dr. Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling; Dr. Grace O'Donovan, University of Edinburgh

The Final Report was submitted to the FPI and EEAS in November 2021. In October Prof Chaban co-led with PPMI the Project’s Core Team in three virtual presentations delivering results and policy recommendations to the EU external relations practitioners at Brussels EU HQ from European Commission, EEAS and different Directorate-Generals, as well as EU Delegations around the world.

On October 5, 2021, Professor Chaban of PD-PCF organized and led the COST Virtual Panel “External perceptions of the EU as times of global crises: Continuity and Change?” within the Research Week events of the COST Action ENTER. The panel unites PD-PCF members (Natalia Chaban, Ole Elgström, Michele Knodt, Sonia Lucarelli, Karine Lisbonne-de Vergeron, Iana Sabatovych, Pauline Heinrichs) with scholars of the “EU External Perceptions Update Study 2021” outside of the Forum.

See the programme

The panel is one of research outputs of the COST ENTER Work Package 2 “Perceptions and Communication” (PD-PCF’s Director Professor Chaban is its Vice-Leader).

Work Group 2 “Perceptions and Communication, EU Foreign Policy Facing New Directions (ENTER), COST Action, European Commission

2018-ongoing

ENTER

https://foreignpolicynewrealities.eu/

https://foreignpolicynewrealities.eu/about/working-groups/working-group-2-perception-and-communication/

PD-PCF experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Michèle Knodt (TUD, Germany), Prof Patrick Muller (Vienna University, Austria), Professor Šarūnas Liekis (VMU, Lithuania)

Main publications led by PD-PCF within the COST ENTER Work Package 2:

Chaban and J. Headley (eds.) (2021) Special Section “Perceptions of the EU in its Eastern Neighbourhood, 30 Years on from the Collapse of the Soviet Union”, European Foreign Affairs Review, 26(4).
N. Chaban, J. Osicka, V. Zapletalova and P. Heinrichs (2020), Special Issue “Changing realities, changing narratives? A narrative reading of EU perceptions in a changing Europe”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 12(3).
N. Chaban and J. Headley (eds.) (2021) Special Section “Perceptions, Narratives and Attitudes: New Perspectives and Geographies in the Study of External Perceptions of the EU”, European Foreign Affairs Review, 27(1)

Project European solidarity in Covid-19 public debates: Constructing expectations in the media
(Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden and Poland)

2020-ongoing

PD-PCF experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Michèle Knodt (TUD, Germany), Professor Patrick Müller (Vienna University, Austria), Professor Ole Elgström (Lund University, Sweden), Associate Professor Sonia Lucarelli (Bologna University, Italy), Dr Natasza Styczynska (Jagellonian University, Poland)

Youth Opinion and Opportunities for EU Public Diplomacy: Youth Narratives and Perceptions of the EU and EU-Ukraine Relations in Ukraine and the three Baltic States (E-YOUTH) supported by Erasmus+, European Commission

2018-2021

https://jeanmonnet.nz/eyouth/

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Šarūnas Liekis (VMU, Lithuania), Professor Linda Jean Kenix (UC, NZ), Associate Professor Donald Matheson (UC, NZ), Professor Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, UK), Professor Alister Miskimmon (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

Special Issue: Reimagining Europe? Youth Narratives and Perceptions in Ukraine and the Baltic States with Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 29(4) 2021

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Linda Jean Kenix (UC, NZ), Associate Professor Donald Matheson (UC, NZ), Professor Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, UK), Professor Alister Miskimmon (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Dr Pauline Heinrichs (PD-PCF UC), Dr Iana Sabatovych (PD-PCF UC)

What Makes the Narrative Psychologically Strategic: Ukraine on Russian E-News Platforms. Intertextuality, intermediality, multimodality

2019-ongoing

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Michèle Knodt (TUD, Germany), Professor Svitlana Zhabotynska (Cherkasy National University, Ukraine)

Contested narratives of climate change

2018-ongoing

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, UK), Professor Alister Miskimmon (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Dr Babak Bahador (UC, NZ/GWU, USA), Dr Iana Sabatovych (UC, NZ), Pauline Heinrichs (Royal Holloway, UK)

EU Foreign Policy from the ‘Outside In’ Perspective: EU external reception, perceptions and communication
(Jean Monnet Chair by Professor Natalia Chaban)

2018-2020

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Michèle Knodt (TUD, Germany), Professor Ole Elgström (Lund University, Sweden), Professor Helene Sjursen (University of Oslo, Norway)

EU changing global perceptions post-Brexit referendum

https://uacesoneurope.ideasoneurope.eu/2018/08/01/external-perceptions-of-the-eu-after-brexit-event-report/

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Arne Niemann (Mainz University, Germany), Johanna Speyer (Mainz University, Germany)

The EU as a Public Diplomacy Actor in Ukraine: Images, Perceptions and Narratives of the EU in Ukraine

2015-ongoing

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Michèle Knodt (TUD, Germany), Professor Ole Elgström (Lund University, Sweden)

30 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union: Perceptions and Narratives. Case-study of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia and the EU
(Special Issue published in 2021 with New Zealand Slavonic Journal)

2019-2021

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Professor Henrietta Mondry (UC, NZ), Associate Professor Evgeny Pavlov (UC, NZ)

Perceptions of the EU in its Eastern Neighbourhood, 30 Years On from the Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Special Issue Section with European Foreign Affairs Review forthcoming 2021)

2019-2021

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Associate Professor James Headley (Otago University, NZ), Iana Sabatovych (PD-PCF UC)

Narratives and Perceptions of the EU in the EU
(Special Issue published in 2020 with Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies)

2019-2020

Experts collaborating: Professor Natalia Chaban (UC, NZ), Dr Jan Osička (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Dr Veronika Zapletalová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Pauline Heinrichs (Royal Holloway, UK)

EU-Canada Relations: The EU and Canada in Dialogue