E-Platform for Neighbourhood

The E-Platform for Neighbourhood will be a free of charge e-learning platform which will offer short courses on EU policies, European Neighbourhood Policy, EU-ENP relations, and related best practices. The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Natolin Campus of the College of Europe.

E-Platform will be open for all the interested users. In particular, it will be useful for civil servants, local authorities, students, members of the academia, think tanks, journalists and civil society of the ENP countries.

The E-Platform will consist of:

+ The distance learning component of 10 knowledge-based modules and 5 professional skills modules. Completion of 10 modules in total (7 knowledge-based and 3 skills-based) will make a participant (ENP national) eligible to be considered for participation in face-to-face sessions.
An Information Database System (IDS) which will collect systematised public information and documentation on the EU, ENP, EU-ENP relations, and best practices.

+ An online Expert Forum to enable participants’ discussions with one another, as well as with practitioners and scholars working on, or interested in the European Union- and ENP-related matters for exchange of professional knowledge and experience.

Apart from these three E-Platform components, a comprehensive glossary will also be made available.

The E-Platform will be launched in March 2016.

In addition to the online learning tool, 150 best performing participants (75 from ENP-East and 75 from ENP-South) will be invited, free-of-charge, to take part in face-to-face sessions/workshops which will take place in Poland in late August 2016.

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was developed in 2004, with the objective of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and our neighbours and instead strengthening the prosperity, stability and security of all. It is based on the values of democracy, rule of law and respect of human rights.

This ENP framework is proposed to the 16 of EU’s closest neighbours – Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key Source: European Neighbourhood Policy http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-european-neighbourhood-policy/

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