Center for Eastern European and International Studies

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The Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) gGmbH ( English Center for East European and International Studies ) in Berlin is a study center supported by the Federal Foreign Office , which is supposed to analyze developments in the post-Soviet space and advise decision-makers ( Der Tagesspiegel ).

Gwendolyn Sasse has been the director since 2016 . The newly established center in the Berlin district of Mitte is comparable to the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne - Ehrenfeld , which in 2000 was dissolved. The initiative to found the German Center in Berlin comes from the German Society for Eastern European Studies (DGO), whose president Ruprecht Polenz promoted it. According to a report by the Tagesspiegel in 2015, 500,000 euros were earmarked for the center in the budget of the federal authority , and 2.5 million euros each for 2016 and 2017. According to this, the center should

“Delivering social science expertise that has to be available quickly, is the motto in Berlin. It is not about basic research, but about "application-related knowledge". On the other hand, DGO managing director Freitag calls the pillars of the new center “contemporary basic research”, “promoting young talent in cooperation with universities and political advice.” "

According to the website of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society , founded as a non-profit association in Berlin in 2016 , the Center

"Study contemporary political, economic, cultural and social processes in Russia, the Eastern Partnership countries and Central Asia, make its findings available to a wider public and provide policy advice supported by academic research. It will undertake collaborative research in economics and the social sciences and also cultural and legal studies within the scope of a multidisciplinary regional approach. / dt. examine contemporary political, economic, cultural and social processes in Russia, the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Central Asia and make its results available to a wider public and offer political advice supported by scientific research. It will conduct cooperative research in economics and social sciences as well as cultural and law sciences as part of a multidisciplinary regional approach. "

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. dgo-online.org (Activity Report 2016)
  2. ^ A b Claudia Von Salzen: New Center in Berlin: More Knowledge About Eastern Europe. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 5, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ German-Ukrainian Academic Society supports young researchers and promotes German-Ukrainian scientific cooperation - uni-regensburg.de (accessed on February 20, 2019)
  4. ↑ GERMANY, Berlin: The Center for East European & International Studies (ZOIS) is launched - ukrainet.eu , July 4, 2016 (accessed on February 20, 2019)

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Center for Eastern European and International Studies (alternative names of the lemma)
Center for Eastern European and International Studies; Center for East European and International Studies; ZOiS

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '43.6 "  N , 13 ° 23' 8.4"  E