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International Scientific Conference/European Union and it' s New Neighborhood: Addressing Challenges and Opportunitie s/October 18-20, 2006/Vilnius

International Scientific Conference

European Union and it's New Neighborhood: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities



October 18-20, 2006

Vilnius




The objective of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is to share the EU's stability, security and prosperity with neighbouring countries in a way that is distinct from EU membership. It is designed to prevent the emergence of new dividing lines in Europe by offering neighbouring countries closer political, security, economic and cultural co-operation.

Pursuing the ENP will call for major economic and political reforms in our partner countries, which the EU will support through financial and technical support, opening of markets and providing access to Community programmes where possible.



Mykolas Romeris University organizes 3d International Scientific Conference of Junior Researchers "EU and its' New Neighborhood: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities". It aims to explore the political, economic, cultural, legal, trade, security and spatial aspects of broadly understood new neighborhood, from different scientific perspectives.



The event will take place in the capital of Lithuania Vilnius on October 18-22, 2006. The number of participants is expected to reach 50 - 70, coming from the universities of EU members and EU new neighbors. The participants will be able to choose from six thematic workshops, each exploring a different aspect of the main theme of the conference:



1 Workshop
Political reform: strengthening democracy, good governance and dialogue on human rights;



2 Workshop
Economic reform: including promoting a good business and investment climate;



3 Workshop
Trade, market and regulatory reforms: promoting trade and helping partner countries to integrate into the global trading system, encouraging partner countries to apply the standards of the EU's internal market;



4 Workshop
Cooperation in the field of justice, liberty and security: judicial reform and migration issues;



5 Workshop
Infrastructure networks (energy, transport and telecommunications, information society) and cooperation on the environment;



6 Workshop
People-to-people contacts: education, research and development, culture, civil society, the opening of certain Community programmes.



Since the presentation of the first European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action Plans in 2004, the policy is proving its worth as a key instrument to promote good governance, economic and social development in countries around the EU's land and sea borders. The ENP aims to build a zone of increasing prosperity, stability and security in the EU's neighbourhood, in the interests of both the neighbouring countries and of the EU itself. It offers partners a relationship that goes beyond cooperation to include closer political links and an element of economic integration, as well as assistance with reforms to stimulate economic and social development. In turn, ENP partners accept precise commitments to strengthen the rule of law, democracy and the respect for human rights, to promote market-oriented economic reforms, to promote employment and social cohesion and to cooperate on key foreign policy objectives such as counter-terrorism and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction



Conference Participation





We invite Ph. D. students, junior and also senior researchers to participate and present their papers in the International Scientific Conference "EU and its' New Neighborhood: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities".



For more information and in order to register for participation in the conference you should send an abstract by email to Saule Maciukaite-Zviniene doktor@mruni.lt c.c. Jolanta Grigaliunaite jgrigal@mruni.lt Your e-mail should contain the following information: name, surname, address, phone and (if available) fax number, affiliation, fields of interest, e-mail address. Save the abstract in RTF-format (alternatively with MS-Word, version 7.0 or earlier), using your surname as the file name. Use Times Roman / Times New Roman in the body text, single spacing, 12 point font. Abstracts exceeding the word limit 250-350 will be returned to the sender. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, June 5th, 2006. Those candidates, whose papers will be accepted, will be notified not later than Monday, June 30th, 2006, and asked to submit the final version of their draft paper not later than Monday, September 4th, 2006. The best papers will be published as a conference proceedings. The papers will be edited by editorial staff and scientifically acknowledged.



Reimbursement

It is possible to apply for reimbursement of accommodation and travel expenses. As the number of reimbursed participants is limited, strong preference will be given to those presenting papers and registered at the earliest. Please, add to your abstract an application for reimbursement.

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