REDEMOS - REconfiguring EU DEMOcracy Support ? Towards a sustained demos in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

REDEMOS代表了对欧盟东部邻国民主化进程的遗产和潜力的独特、平行的调查。REDEMOS分析了欧盟的行动和东部邻国的反应，平衡了资金、改革和民间社会支持对十年来静态和倒退结果的影响，基于对邻国民主化面临的国内和地缘政治挑战的评估，以及双方重新参与所需的进步实践。REDEMOS以其高度原创的、四阶段的演示周期，开辟了新的领域，展示了如何恢复理解规范和价值观的方法，以及加强程序和实践的实施，可以完全将态度和结果从被动的民主促进转变为积极的民主合作。因此，REDEMOS弥合了2010-2022年间出现的众多分歧，并将重点放在重建东方伙伴内部可行的“demos”的总体需求上，考虑到相当大的政治变化，包括邻国内外对民主化实践的彻底反对。REDEMOS的愿景将人们的态度从对价值观、规范和程序的排他性关注转变为通过公民赋权实现包容性民主实践。REDEMOS以女性主导的工作结构为特色，在11个高质量的东欧和西欧合作伙伴的公平平衡基础上，提出了一系列开创性的里程碑和可交付成果。它的地理构成代表了东部邻国，每个伙伴都专注于提供先进的工具，使欧盟及其东部邻国能够在国家和非国家环境中重置民主。REDEMOS平衡了国家改革、公民社会、边缘化和地方观点及其有影响力的传播模式，有效地在学术、政策和公民社会领域内部和之间建立了新的联系，以促进欧洲东部邻国的民主化。

REDEMOS represents a unique, parallel investigation of the legacy and potential of democratization processes in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. Analyzing both EU actions and eastern neighbours' responses, balancing the impact of funding, reforms and civil society support against a decade of static and regressive outcomes, REDEMOS is grounded upon an appraisal of domestic and geopolitical challenges facing neighbourhood democratization, and progressive practices needed for both sides to re-engage. With its highly original, 4-phase demos cycle, REDEMOS breaks new ground in demonstrating how revived approaches to understanding norms and values, and reinforced implementation of procedures and practices can fully transform both attitudes and outcomes from passive democracy promotion to active democracy collaboration. Hence, REDEMOS bridges numerous divides emerging between 2010-2022 and focuses on the overarching need to reconstitute a workable ‘demos’ within Eastern partners in light of sizeable political changes including outright opposition to democratization practices from within and beyond the neighbourhood. REDEMOS’ vision shifts attitudes beyond an exclusionary focus on values, norms and procedures, to inclusive democratic practices through citizen empowerment. Featuring a work package female-led structure, REDEMOS presents a series of pioneering milestones and deliverables, based on an equitable balance of 11 high-quality East and West European partners. Its geographical composition is representative of the eastern neighbourhood, with each partner focused on providing advanced tools by which the EU and its eastern neighbors can reset democracy in state and non state environments. Balancing state reform, civil society, marginalized and local perspectives, and its impactful dissemination modes, REDEMOS effectively co-creates new links within and between academic, policy and civil society domains to boost democratization in Europe’s eastern neighborhood.