About INDEUNIS

INDEUNIS stands for “Industrial Restructuring in the NIS: experience of and lessons from the new EU Member States”, an international research project based on the co-operation of ten research institutes from Austria, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. INDEUNIS will last from 2005 to 2007 and is being funded by the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme.

The principal aim of INDEUNIS is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the recent experience with economic transition, industrial restructuring and integration in both EU New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS) and the selected Newly Independent States (NIS: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova), in particular with respect to the role played by trade 2integration, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and European integration (institutional aspects). It will draw policy conclusions related to restructuring in the NIS, address the challenges of their WTO accession and evaluate prospects for a closer integration between the enlarged EU and NIS neighbour states, as well as for a regional integration in the NIS. The additional aims are to intensify the cross-border research cooperation and the knowledge transfer between partners from the EU and NIS. By disseminating the research results to both scientific community, policy makers and to a broader public the project will stimulate expert discussions and help to raise the general understanding of topics concerned.

Within 6 scientific work packages, the research consortium will investigate the following key topics: Patterns of industrial restructuring and trade specialization in the NMS and the role played by Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and EU integration. Are there any country- or industry-specific features of NMS’ restructuring and what are their key determinants? How has restructuring in the NIS proceeded and what are the reasons for differences compared to NMS? What are the emerging industry, employment and trade specialization patterns of NIS? What are the obstacles and prospects for the future EU-NIS trade? What lessons can be drawn from the experience of NMS regarding restructuring, trade specialization, FDI and integration for the NIS? Are there specific innovation strategies of firms in the NMS and NIS? What are the social impacts of FDI, especially in terms of know-how transfer and employment? How is the EU integration affecting EU-NIS economic relations and what are the prospects and policies regarding the regional integration of the NIS and for the between the enlarged EU and NIS?

Recent news

INDEUNIS note in The Parliament Magazine, issue 251, 10 September 2007

INDEUNIS Paper on Kaliningrad by Nataliya Smorodinskaya (IERAS) was published in Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, Fall 2007

Press conference on policy recommendations, Moscow, 18 May 2007, 10 a.m.

INDEUNIS Press release on policy recommendations in English and Russian, May 2007

INDEUNIS Research Papers and Policy recommendations are available for download

Press release published on 31 October 2006


Last update May 2007