University of Tartu is offering a free, online course in “Understanding EU-Russia Relations: Foreign Policy Actors, Institutions and Policy-Making.” Read the course description below.
The course is organized into five issue specific modules, which discuss such topics as
- historical and institutional framework of EU-Russia relations;
- EU and Russia’s relevant foreign policy actors and institutions;
- contested areas of EU and Russia’s interactions in shared neighborhood
- EU-Russia energy relations
The course provides students with both theoretical knowledge (which is delivered through explanatory audio podcasts, video round-table discussions and academic commentary) and guest interviews from various practitioners coming from HEIs, NGOs and EU institutions such as members of the European Parliament, representatives of the Union of European Federalists, Estonia -Russia CBC programme and Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation. At the end of the course, students will also be able to apply their acquired knowledge in practice through completing a short mini-project, focused on media analysis of sources dealing with state of EU-Russia affairs. \
For more information, click here. The deadline to register is January 30, 2020.