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European political agenda, showing how they affect European
democracy. It also draws attention to the individual
publications of EUDO researchers, making their findings
accessible to the wider community.
Apart from the activities mentioned above, much time is
also devoted to streamlining EUDO’s efforts to become a
leading and well known hub in EU democracy research.
EUDO is rapidly becoming one of the leading sources
that academics, policy-makers and ordinary citizens turn
to when they look for information and research on democracy
in the EU. In order to achieve this, the inter- and
multi-disciplinary character of EUDO will continue to be
fostered to create ever more synergies and to conduct joint
research projects and studies. Linked to these internal efforts
will be external activities, such as inviting more external
scholars and research centres, politicians and policy
makers as well as civil-society representatives to join the
EUDO network and to cooperate with other leading actors
in the field.
Further information on EUDO is available at
www.eui.eu/Projects/EUDO
AcIt: AccESS to cItIzEnSHIp And ItS IMpAct
on IMMIGrAnt IntEGrAtIon
In January 2012, EUDO CITIZENSHIP launched ACIT, a
new research project financed by the European Fund for
the Integration of Third-country Nationals. In 18 months,
ACIT will generate indicators for citizenship laws, their
implementation, acquisition rates and their impact on
immigrant integration in all 27 EU Member States and
accession candidate and EEA countries (Croatia, Iceland,
FYROM Macedonia, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey).
ACIT will also organize stakeholder dialogues and produce
citizenship handbooks in 10 EU member states
(Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom). Academic re-
4 roBErt ScHuMAn cEntrE For AdVAncEd StudIES
Alexander
trechsel, director
of European
union democracy
observatory
searchers, governments and civil society will obtain data,
comparative analyses and practical guidelines on how to
evaluate policy outcomes, set targets and good governance
standards, and will assess the prospective impact of policy
changes. ACIT will contribute to more effective policies
and practices for integration and citizenship acquisition
by creating authoritative, comprehensive and easy-touse
databases, which will foster European information
exchange and cooperation. The five consortium partners
who will jointly carry out the project are: the European
University Institute, the Migration Policy Group (Brussels),
University College Dublin, University of Edinburgh
and Maastricht University.
FrAcIt: ElEctorAl rIGHtS And pArtIcIpAtIon
oF tHIrd-country nAtIonAlS In Eu
MEMBEr StAtES And oF Eu cItIzEnS
In tHIrd countrIES
An EUI-led team will prepare a report for the Committee
on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament. The
report will examine electoral rights and the participation
of third-country nationals in EU member states and of EU
citizens in third countries, including external voting procedures
in national and EP elections. The FRACIT project
will also discuss problems of the diplomatic protection of
EU citizens in countries where their states of origin do not
have representations. Research for FRACIT will broaden
the thematic coverage of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory
from citizenship status to voting rights. EUDO
CITIZENSHIP will collaborate in this project with Edinburgh
University, University College Dublin, Sussex University
and a network of national experts.
puzzlEd By polIcy
EUDO is part of a larger international consortium that won
a tender in the framework of the European Commission’s
rainer Bauböck,
co-director of
Eudo observatory
on citizenship