The Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) is pleased to announce the recent selection of six researchers for the International Visegrad Fund Research Grant Programme.
Dr. Klodiana Beshku is Lecturer at University of Tirana, Albania. She will visit the Archives to pursue research concerning the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. Klodians’s research will focus on the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts to offer a new analysis of the EU's response and preventive diplomacy towards the Western Balkans Region.
Tea Cvetanovska is a Master’s student enrolled in the European and Global Studies programme at the University of Padua, Italy. Her research project relates to her Master’s thesis on the origins and the development of the European Parliament’s external policy towards Yugoslavia during the last decades of the Cold War (1970s to 1990s), focusing on human rights, democracy, and integration.
Dr. Bence Kocsev is research fellow at the Otto von Habsburg Foundation in Budapest, Hungary. He will consult archival holdings at the HAEU to develop a comprehensive and detailed picture of Otto von Habsburg himself by consulting in particular the European Parliament fonds, where Otto von Habsburg served as a MEP for twenty years.
Dr. Maciej Serovaniec is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. With his research project on‘Democratic Legitimacy in the Post-Crisis European Economic Governance’, he will consult the HAEU holdings to explain accountability mechanisms in EU Economic Governance and to map the mechanisms of holding national and EU executives accountable.
Dr. Nataša Simeunović Bajić is Assistant Professor at the University of Niš, Serbia. She will visit the HAEU to pursue her research on the institutionalization of transnational television and its effects on the formation of a European cultural identity, focusing on the role of TV Europa and TV Eurikon.
Varga Timea is a PhD candidate at University of Pécs, Hungary. She will conduct her research at the HAEU to investigate the historical roots of British skepticism towards European integration by analyzing influences on political decisions in the 1950s.
The International Visegrad Fund (IVF) and the European University Institute (EUI) launched the IVF grant programme in 2021 as a pilot project to support and encourage early career scholars from Central and Eastern Europe to develop archival research projects using the primary sources held at the HAEU. In 2022, the two organizations signed a partnership agreement confirming the grant programme at the HAEU. A total of 16 IVF grants have been awarded at the HAEU since the grant programme’s inception.