11.06.2025 / News Between June 12–15, Bucharest will host the TEFF Alumni Event 2025, bringing together former participants of the Türkiye Europe Future Forum (TEFF), alongside leaders, experts, and decision-makers from across Europe and the Republic of Türkiye. The event is organized in collaboration with the Stiftung Mercator – Istanbul...
Prepare to embark on a journey into the dynamic world of Sub-Saharan Africa-Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) relations with an exciting introductory course this August. Led by Dr. Stefan Cibian, this program is tailored for students and individuals passionate about international relations, foreign affairs, and development. Participants will gain valuable...
26.06.2023 / Perspectives Author: Stefan Cibian Ph.D. Image designed by rawpixel.com This article was first published by Alliance on 30.09.2022. Alliance granted FRI the permission to share this article. 24 February 2022 is a date history will remember as the start of another European war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine...
26.06.2023 / Case studies Authors: Stefan Cibian Ph.D. and Georgi Georgiev Ph.D Candidate Download publication Image designed by Freepik “The quality of democracy decreased in Hungary. We have seen the biggest attacks on NGOs by the Government between 2016 and 2019-2020.”1 The civil society movement in Hungary faces unprecedented systematic...
18 July, online, ora 17.00 – 18.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 27 July, online, ora 18.00 – 19.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 1 August, online, ora 17.00 – 18.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 13 August, CALBOR – ora 12.00 (Romanian time, in person, in English) The course...
Hybrid (in person and on Zoom), August 31, 2021, 10.30-13.30 (Romanian time, in English) The workshop is focused on historical thinking and the art of storytelling. Few days before the workshop all participants will receive access to a set of textual, visual, and audio archival sources created in Romania, Bulgaria,...
Online (Zoom), August 12, 2020, 16.00-18.00 (Romanian time, in English) Looking back at controversial historical episodes has become a widely spread reference point in nowadays public debates and politics. Recently, monuments of figures like Christopher Columbus were targeted and destroyed during protests against racism in the US. Another example is...
Online (Zoom), August 10, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) The webinar is an invitation to explore differences and similarities between the lived experiences of colonialism & postcolonialism, as well as totalitarianism and the transition to democratic regimes in Africa and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In more specific terms,...
Online (Zoom), August 8, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) In Romania and Eastern-Europe the Z generation started with kids born in and after 2000. The first cohorts are already entering university and the whole public education system is filled by this active generation, born in the online world, Instagram...
Turkey – European Union (EU) relations are at an all times low. The transformation of the Turkish political regime in the aftermath of the failed coup against President Erdogan puts significant pressure on the vision for a common future. Essentially, Turkey’s EU integration process is stalled. The importance of trade...