University of Tartu Joins a Major International Project to Boost Ukraine’s R&I Capacity

The recently supported BRIDGE project, “Building Resilient Innovations in Democracy, Governance, and Excellence,” aims to strengthen deliberative and digital democracy as well as policy-making and effective decision-making in the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine by enhancing research, innovation, communication, and organisational capacity of the Kyiv School of Economics.

Within this initiative, University of Tartu partners with leading European Universities – Berlin University of Technology (Germany), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), as well as the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) as beneficiaries and the Center for Innovations Development (Ukraine) as an associated partner.

At the University of Tartu, the project is implemented jointly by the Grant Office, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, and the University of Tartu Ukraine Centre. Core project team is comprised of Hector Pagan, Dmytro Khutkyy, and Viktoriia Biliaieva.

The BRIDGE project aims to boost the innovation capacity of the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) with particular attention to research-to-policy transfer over a pressing policy problem: the role of decision support and deliberative formats for citizen participation (citizen assembly) in the reconstruction of housing and infrastructures, destroyed by the Russian war against Ukraine. The project fills broader gaps in public administration theories and practice on how to blend representative and participatory models of democracy during crisis situations to achieve efficient and legitimate policy outcomes in democracies.

The project budget is almost 1.5 million euros, and the project duration is from 1 September 2024 through 31 August 2027. Please see project description here!

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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