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TRIGGER Project

The Euro Mediterranean Economists Association – EMEA is a partner of the “Trends in Global Governance and Europe’s Role (TRIGGER)” project. TRIGGER is led by the Centre for European Policy Studies.

Trends in Global Governance and Europe’s Role (TRIGGER) project aims at providing EU institutions with knowledge and tools to enhance their actorness, effectiveness and influence in global governance. Developing new ways to harness the potential of public engagement and participatory foresight in complex governance decisions.

TRIGGER specific objectives are:

  • Advance the state of the art in understanding global governance;
  • Evolution of the EU’s interaction with global governance, in particular so-called “actorness” and “effectiveness” of the EU;
  • Understand how global governance and emerging technologies interact, and what role the EU plays in this respect, in particular as “regulatory superpower”;
  • Identify emerging trends that strengthen / loosen deeper global governance and cooperation;
  • Build capacity for strategic foresight and public engagement inside EU institutions.

EMEA will contribute to the EU-Africa economic partnership.

For more information please visit https://trigger-project.eu/

Publications

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The Role of International Cooperation and Development Aid in the EU-Africa Partnership: Governance, Actorness and Effectiveness Analysis
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EMEA webinar report: EU-Africa Partnership: Is the EU still a relevant actor for development policy in the continent?

Related Activities

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Africa Initiative

The EMEA Africa Initiative brings together leading economists and high-level international and local experts to think for the future of the Euro-Mediterranean and Africa policy and economic relations.
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Entrepreneurship and MSMEs

EMEA Entrepreneurship and MSMEs initiative aims to: Perform surveys and research with the focus on high-value added start-ups, social business, creative cultural sectors;
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Foresight and Policy Analysis

EMEA develops new models and scenarios and proposes new applications for the region, sub-region and countries.

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Governance and Institutions

EMEA engages in research and targeted initiatives to develop new indicators to monitor governance and institutional performance and to suggest policy proposals for the region and for Europe to strengthen global governance.

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Money and Finance

Building on EMEA Founder research activities on money and finance, EMEA continues to enlarge the research on financial architecture, financial inclusion, stability and sustainability, crisis management in the Mediterranean and Africa.
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Digitalization & AI

Digitalization and AI have great potential in revamping education, research, and economic sectors. EMEA is developing e-research platforms aimed at enhancing collaborative research
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Socio-economic Development

EMEA developed the innovative “TRIS” concept for socio-economic development in the Mediterranean. TRIS stands for “Transparent”, “Responsible”, “Inclusive” and “Sustainable”. This new concept can be enlarged in other regions of the world including Africa.

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Regional Integration

EMEA developed a new vision for regional integration, inspired by the blue transition first introduced in MEDPRO and later developed in EMNES. This regional integration concept is called the “Blue Transition Vision” which is build on complementarity between regions and sub-regions