Foundation for European Studies

National Network
Poland
Address

ul. Bałuckiego 1/16
Wrocław
Poland

Telephone
0048691848309
E-Mail
kmlynczak@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
a.tomaszewska@feps.pl
E-Mail (3)
k.bachmann@feps.pl
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Research
General Information
Foundation for European Studies (FEPS) is based in Wroclaw, Poland. Projects carried out by the Foundation are financed by the following institutions: Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Batory Foundation, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. The Foundation manages a budget of around 200 000 PLN a year with an increasing tendency. The Foundation consists of a two-person Executive Board and Foundation Council and is run by the Director. The Foundation constantly cooperates with two project managers. The main partners of projects conducted by FEPS are: Heinrich Boell Foundation, Weiterdenken Dresden, Batory Foundation, the Center for International Relations Warsaw, DemosEuropa Centre for European Strategy, UNESCO Initiatives Center and chosen Polish, German and Balkan universities. FEPS is concentrated on projects concerning media monitoring, enhancing the development of civil society in Poland and Eastern neighbors as well as on studies of German history and politics.
Mission and Objectives

FEPS was founded in order to enhance and facilitate high quality interdisciplinary research in Social Sciences and Humanities, to promote new methodological approaches and to link academics, ambitious students and practitioners. This way, FEPS also contributes to the bottom-up reform of the Polish system of higher education - by promoting best practices and connecting ambitious researchers from Poland with their counterparts in other countries.
FEPS works in four main areas: the contemporary German studies, media and public opinion, the condition of the European Union, and Transitional Justice. All our programs are interdisciplinary and engage political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians and social psychologists, but we also welcome contributions from other disciplines. Beyond these the Foundation runs activities aimed at improving the think tank environment in Poland.

Main Projects / Activities

Currently FEPS leads projects connected with monitoring activities as well as publishing and holding workshops and conferences. One of the most important ones that just has been finished was to reveal the shortcomings of information to the public from the media regarding the social impact of Polish intervention in Afghanistan. Another monitoring project concentrates on specifying and improving the exchange of information and the level of coordination between the different local, regional and national representatives of Poland (members of the EU’s Committee of the Regions, of the Sejm’s Committee for European Affairs, the regional MPs and NGOs and the local and regional administration). Another important project named ‘Think Tank Generator’ aims to attract Polish and German students to write texts suitable for Think Tanks requirements. FEPS runs also variety of projects concentrated on supporting non-formal education, from August 2011 there are seminars run in Belarus among youth workers, educators and teachers.

Contact (1) Full Name
Katarzyna Mlynczak
Head of the organisation
Klaus Bachmann
Contact (2) Full Name
Anna Tomaszewska