In June 2010 Robert Bosch Stiftung, Eurasia Foundation (EFC members) and the German Association for East European Studies will organise a conference about the EU and Civil Society in Southern Caucasus in Berlin, Germany.

The conference will consider the role of civil society within the new peace-building landscape. It aims to take stock of the institutional setting which civil society organisations are facing. This would serve as a basis to identify opportunities for confidence-building initiatives suitable to reduce mistrust, to hold governments accountable and to support the EU’s conflict resolution activities in particular.

In May 2009 the EU launched the Eastern Partnership (EaP) with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Building on the European Neighborhood Policy, the Eastern Partnership is the new framework under which relations between the EU and the six Eastern neighbours will be developing. It includes a bilateral dimension between the EU and each country and a multilateral dimension involving all Partners, the latter being accompanied by a Civil Society Forum which first met in November 2009 in Brussels.

Venue: Representation of Sachsen-Anhalt (Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt)Luisenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin