Living Integration from the Academy. Technical Assistance Programme for Strategic Planning in Central America (EU-SICA)
- Country: Central America
Start date: 25/11/2019
End date: 29/06/2020
Applicant(s): Fundación ETEA
Funder: Programa Asistencia Técnica para el Planeamiento Estratégico de Centroamérica ATEPECA (European Union and SICA)
Funding: 115.000,00 EUR
The project aims to strengthen the connection between university and research centres’ research on Central American regional integration and the needs of regional institutions.
Specifically, it aims to contribute to defining positions in global and regional debates, to strengthen, deepen and disseminate knowledge, as well as to analyse objectives, instruments and impacts of policies, programmes and action strategies, with a special focus on the achievements and potentials of the EU-Central America Association Agreement.
This initiative provides for results in two complementary components:
- Component 1: Promotion of research on Central American integration and the progress of the Association Agreement
- Component 2: Generation and installation of capacities and knowledge on Central American integration and the progress of the Association Agreement in universities and centres of thought and research
Outstanding activities and products
- Call For Papers: Central American Integration towards the Bicentenary of Independence and the 30th Anniversary of the Central American Integration System (SICA)
- Competition for virtual research stays
- Seminar “Determinants of Central America’s development in the framework of the regional integration process and the Association Agreement with the EU”
- Toolbox on regional integration and the Association Agreement between Central America and the EU (Spanish)