A $2 million grant to the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (through the Eurasia Foundation) will continue to fund the Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC), a network of resource and training centers established in the capital cities of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The centers, which partner with local universities, offer scholars and practitioners stable opportunities for integrated research, training and collaboration in the region. Academics supported through the centers have helped to strengthen social science research and public policy analysis in the South Caucasus.
Over the past seven years, more than 100 promising young scholars have received research support from one of the three Caucasus-based centers through fellowship programs. And, the network of regional centers has sponsored workshops, conferences and seminars in social science research methods as well as on policy-relevant topics in fields such as sociology, legal studies, economics, demography, political science, public policy, and environmental studies. The CRRC centers have assembled public access libraries and IT labs, created print and electronic publishing resources and have also offered training in quantitative research methods and statistical analysis.
“Eurasia Foundation’s partnership with Carnegie Corporation over several years has enabled us to create something entirely new in the Caucasus-an international-caliber academic network covering the entire region,” said William Horton Beebe-Center, President, Eurasia Foundation. “The regional network advances the skills of participating students and researchers, connects them with international colleagues in the neighborhood and beyond, offers scholars viable career paths in their native country, and provides a fact-based foundation for policymakers throughout the region to steer their countries in directions that improve the lives of ordinary citizens.”
One of the Caucasus Research Resource Center’s core programs has been the large-scale data collection and analysis of local and regional developments known as the Data Initiative. A response to the dearth of reliable, up-to-date and accessible data on social, political and economic issues, the Data Initiative collects household and other data on issues such as poverty, employment, education, migration, and crime across the Caucasus region. Please Learn More here…
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15 March 2012
Eurasia Partnership Foundation, in cooperation with swisspeace and Bosch Foundation are going to organize a seminar “South Caucasus : Dark Spots & Bright Spots in a Peacebulding: Civil Society’s Role” that will be held in Bern, Switzerland on March 27, 2012.
23 February 2012
EPF and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Istanbul-based independent non-governmental think-tank, analyzing social, political and economic policy issues facing Turkey are going to organize a seminar Turkey’s South Caucasus Agenda: Roles of State and Non-State Actors on March 2, 2012 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Please see the agenda and confirm your participation with Aybars Gurgulu at aybars@tesev.org.tr
12 January 2012
Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in cooperation with the European Policy Centre and the Robert Bosch Foundation held international seminar about EU’s role in the South Caucasus in Brussels, Belgium on 14 December 2011.
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