Aya Renaud
Freelance journalist, editor, web consultant. Worked for various international organizations and media outlets, including UNDP, UNEP, RFE/RL. Currently, assists non-profit organizations in building their corporate identity, online presence, strengthening communities in social media. Has been involved in EUCAM since 2009. Studied International Journalism at the Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt (Germany).
New Strategy – similar challenges: EU-Central Asia security cooperation
On 5 June EUCAM, the European Neighbourhood Council and the Egmont Institute organised in Brussels the roundtable New Strategy – similar challenges: EU-Central Asia security cooperation.
The event was attended...
Meetings in the Netherlands and Belgium
EUCAM research fellow Khurshid Zafari and EUCAM coordinator Jos Boonstra visited Baarle-Nassau (The Netherlands) and Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) to have meetings with representatives of both municipalities as well as a...
Study visit to The Hague
On 2 May, EUCAM fellows visited The Hague and had an opportunity to talk with representatives from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the office of the OSCE...
Become an EUCAM Fall 2019 Fellow: Call for Applications
The Europe Central Asia Monitoring (EUCAM) initiative of the Centre for European Security Studies (CESS) is open to applications for its civil society fellowship programme. Over the course of...
EUCAM fellows do Brussels
From 8 to 12 April our EUCAM fellows visited Brussels for a series of meetings with EU officials and training by ENC and EUCAM partners on EU institutional mechanics...
Former and current fellows meet in Brussels
In mid-November Anastasiya Ten and Sabrinisso Valdosh travelled to Brussels with EUCAM coordinator Jos Boonstra for several meetings organised by Andreas Marazis of the European Neighbourhood Council. They also...
Fellows’ impressions of The Hague meetings
On 10 and 11 October, the EUCAM fellows visited various institutions in The Hague discussing their research and Central Asia developments as well as getting an insight into Dutch...
Groningen-Brussels
In their EUCAM fellowship ‘research week’, Anastasiya, Gulnura and Sabrinisso conquered Brussels. In their meetings, they sought input for their individual research projects that are mostly focussed on EU-Central...
Central Asian trainers
In the second week of their fellowship, the three EUCAM fellows took part in a Training-of-Trainer workshop organised in-house at the Centre for European Security Studies in Groningen. The...
Uzbekistan opening? Warming to democratic reform and neighbours
EUCAM together with the European Neighbourhood Council and the Open Society European Policy Institute held a roundtable on Uzbekistan’s democratic reform prospects. Keynote speaker EUSR Peter Burian and Eucam...