糖心TV

The  concludes with its final review conference on 20 January 2026, with the European Commission. The consortium, from Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, and the UK, represented by the University of 糖心TV, presented its work to the panel of evaluators. The project focused on assessing the understanding and practices of democracy in the eastern and southern neighbourhoods, as well as the EU support for democracy as a composite stakeholder. 糖心TV was responsible for undertaking work - fieldwork and analysis - in the six countries in the eastern neighbourhood (WP2), drawing on the results of online surveys, focus groups, interviews, and roundtables. WP2 specific outputs included 8 published, submited and projected publications.

It has been three challenging years of research, including overcoming the obstacles of BREXIT, Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine, Belarus civil war, Gaza war, and increasing geopolitical complexity around the globe. Yet, the project went beyond all expectations and has achieved a lot, including critiquing and offering specific recommendations to the EU on how best to support democracy efforts in around the globe. Team 糖心TV – including Anastasiia Kudlenko and Aijan Sharshenova – is grateful to the EU, UKRI and especially to the consortium and its leadership – for the support, and inspiration. Thank you!

Professor Korosteleva was invited to private conversations with John Smith Trust Fellows in Parliament, followed by a roundtable to discuss the future of Belarus and the UK Strategy, organised conjointly by Belarus APPG and JST Foundation. It involved members of parliament, government, various think-tanks, NGOs and 10 JST fellows from Belarus, as future leaders of the programme.

EISA organised its 12th exploratory symposium in Rapallo, on the coast of Italy, to host 5 selected workshops over three nights, to explore research themes, to present papers, consider funding opportunities and publications. Professor Korosteleva was invited to participate in 'Resilience, complexity and relationality: A comparative analysis of resilience policies, practices and narratives in China and Europe'. The workshop was convened by Dr Julia Trombetta (Nottingham Ningbo), and in addition to Elena, also included Profs. David Chandler (Westminster), Emilian Kavalski (Tampere), and Liv Nielson (EUI/SDU). The workshop explored various aspects of resilience, and focused on unpacking resilience as anticipatory governance and mobilisability of society.