The main purpose of this project is to examine the potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy to upgrade the relations between the enlarged EU and CIS countries in the spheres of trade, investment, labour movement, technical cooperation, and to speed up economic and governance reforms in NIS, with special attention given to mutual interdependence between these areas.

ENEPO is composed of 14 workpackages carried out by 11 research institutions from the European Union, European Economic Area, EU candidate and CIS countries:

• CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw (consortium leader)

• Center for Economic and Financial Research CEFIR, Moscow, www.cefir.ru

• Center for Social and Economic Research CASE-Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, www.case.elcat.kg

• Center for Social and Economic Research CASE-Transcaucasus, Tbilisi, www.case-transcaucasus.org.ge/

• Center for Social and Economic Research CASE Ukraine, Kiev, www.case-ukraine.kiev.ua

• Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales CEPII, Paris, www.cepii.fr

• Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, www.ceps.be

• Foundation for Social and Economic Research CASE Moldova, Chisinau, www.case.com.md

• Institute for Market Economics (IME), Sofia, www.ime.bg

• Kiel Institute for the World Economics (IfW), www.uni-kiel.de/ifw

• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), www.nupi.no

Marek Dabrowski is Project Coordinator, Maryla Maliszewska – Deputy Project Coordinator and Sebastien Leclef – Project Administrator.

A kick-off meeting gathering the workpackage coordinators and disucssing the detail project research agenda and time schedule will be organized in Kiev on June 30 and July 1, 2006 and will be hosted by CASE Ukraine.

The main developments of the project will be available on the ENEPO sub-page [link: http://enepo.case.com.pl ].