The Baltic Centre for Advanced Study and Education
(BaltMION)

The Baltic Centre for Advanced Study and Education (BaltMION) Russia and Europe: Past, Present and Future was set up at Kaliningrad State University in 2001. The project is supported by ISE-Centre (Information. Scholarship. Education.), the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Kennen Institute of Advanced Russian Study (USA), Carnegie Corporation of New York (USA), John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation (USA), the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation in Russia).

Searching for new forms and methods of co-operation with the European Union in politics, economy and education is a top priority task for Russia. The contemporary integration processes such as the EU enlargement, the accession of Lithuania and Poland to the EU are the factors determining political, economic, social and cultural trends in the Kaliningrad region.

The co-operation between the Kaliningrad region and the European Union is to become a source of good practice and useful precedents for the development of international relations between the EU and Russia

Baltic CASE Staff

Director
Dr. Vladimir N. Bryushinkin, Professor, Vice-rector for Research
Phone: +7 (0112) 466313
Fax: +7 (0112) 466313
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Director for Research
Dr. Andrei P. Klemeshev, Rector
Phone: +7 (0112) 465917
Fax: +7 (0112) 465813
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Project Manager
Yulia Bardoun
Phone: +7 (0112) 538281
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Research coordinators
Dr. Leonard A. Kalinnikov, professor
Phone: +7 (0112) 555338

Dr Gennady M. Fedorov, professor
Phone: +7 (0112) 432434
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Dr Anna V. Chabanova
Phone: +7 (0112) 434941
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BaltMion Main Research Area

The influence of European philosophy on the development of Russian philosophy: philosophical comparative

Study Research Priorities:

• the methodology of philosophical comparative studies;
• Western European philosophy in the history of Russian philosophy;
• rationality models in Western European and Russian philosophy;
• comparative study of argumentation systems in European and Russian philosophy
• Kant's philosophy and the development of Russian philosophy;
• philosophic foundation of Russian and European identity

Historic background, economic, political and legal aspects of the EU enlargement and its influence on social development processes in Russia

Research priorities:

• the study of political, economic and legal consequences of the EU enlargement for Russia;
• the EU enlargement and cross-border co-operation;
• the elaboration of regional co-operation models in Europe and Russia;
• the migration of the population and changing geopolitical environment: historical experience and the contemporary epoch;
• integration processes and social development;
• political, economic and spatial aspects of Russian and European identity.

Research levels:

• the EU  Russia relations;
• the Baltic Sea Region;
• the Kaliningrad region as part of the Baltic Sea Region, the role of the region in the EU  Russia relations

Education in Russia and Europe in the context of globalisation

Research priorities:

• the influence of globalisation on Russian and European education;
• the formation of the common European education space and prospects for international co-operation with Russia in higher education;
• the modernisation of Russian education in the context of globalisation and European integration;
• the co-operation of the Baltic sea region countries in higher education
• Russian and European identity: education issues

An overview of BAltMion actitvities in 2002

BaltMion held nine research conferences and seminars in 2002:

1. Workshop International projects in education: expectations and results, organized within the framework of the international conference Russia and Europe: modernization and integration in higher education. EuroFaculty project in Kaliningrad State University (April 2527, 2002.)
2. Seminar The Methodology of Comparative Studies in the History of Philosophy held in Kaliningrad State University and in Svetlogorsk (May 1617)
3. Seminar The problem of Kaliningrad in the Context of the EU- Russia Relations, organized within the framework of a series of seminars Russia and Europe: the Prospects for Political, Economic and Cultural Co-operation. The series of the seminars was organized with the support from the Open Society Institute
4. Seminar The Kaliningrad Region of Russia under the conditions of the EU Enlargement. Geopolitical, Economic and Cultural Aspects of the Development of the Kaliningrad Region (September 911, 2002), Svetlogorsk
5. Conference The Rurick family and Russian Stateness (September 2425, 2002)
6. Seminar The Methodology of Comparative Studies in the History of Philosophy  II (October 1618, 2002) Svetlogorsk
7. Seminar European and Russian Identity: the Frontiers of Russian and Europe (October 30-November 1, 2002)
8. International conference The Kaliningrad Region of Russia and the EU Enlargement. The Problems of European integration (November 2223), 2002
9. Seminar The Comparative Analysis of the Transformation Processes in Higher Education in Eastern European Countries in the context of the Pan-European Integration (December 45, 2002)

Publications

• The Kaliningraders in the European context
• A book of selected articles on The Comparatives Studies in Eastern European and Russian Philosophy: Kant, Nietzsche, Soloviev
• Analytic report The Kaliningrad Region of Russia and the EU Enlargement. The problems of Pan-European Integration (January, 2003)

BaltMion Action Plan for January-May, 2003

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