Advancing Reforms in Armenia with Visegrad Four’s Know-how
On 16 June 2021 CPS held the closing event of the project. It was concluded with a reception and informal discussion with the Deputy Head of Mission of the Slovak Embassy Pavol Popjak and the First Counsellor of the Polish Embassy Krzysztof Bartczak.
The project focused on topics set among reform priorities by the Armenian government and the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement. It consisted of five modules:
- Central European countries’ policies and support to reforms in the Eastern Partnership region;
- civilian security sector reform;
- healthcare reform;
- renewable energy sector development;
- IT sector, e-governance and information society development.
Each of the modules included webinars with policy experts from Visegrad Four countries. After each module, a policy paper with recommendations (in Armenian) was prepared by CPS staff and affiliated experts, and public discussions were organised.
Grant #22010376
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The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
PROJECT LIBRARY
Module 1: Central European countries’ policies
1. Polish perspective on the Eastern Partnership webinar with the editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight Wojciech Przybylski (3 July 2020): video, presentation and the publication mentioned in it.
2. Czech perspective on the Eastern Partnership webinar (13 July 2020): video with address by the Deputy Head of Mission of the Czech Embassy in Armenia Jan Plešinger and report by Věra Řiháčková, Associate Research Fellow of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.
3. Slovak perspective on the Eastern Partnership webinar with address by the Ambassador of Slovakia in Armenia Miroslav Hacek and report by Prof Alexander Duleba, researcher at the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (22 July 2020): video, presentation.
4. Hungarian perspective on the Eastern Partnership webinar (24 July 2020): video with report by András Rácz, senior fellow of the Robert Bosch Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.