Project

Focus and Objectives

The goal of the project is to create an EU-Korea interdisciplinary project team that explores the possibilities for further cooperation between the EU and Korea on a set of interrelated policy issues.

A central objective of this project is to investigate and promote additional opportunities for regulatory cooperation, learning, and emulation between the European Union and Korea. Another critical goal is to foster mechanisms by which their approaches to regulatory policy innovation can be more broadly disseminated. Accordingly, providing opportunities for interaction among academics, policy-makers and stakeholders represents a critical component of this project and the activities that will be organised in the context of the project.

The project will therefore mainly focus on cooperation in areas of security, economy, political development, environmental policy and cooperation in regional and international organizations.

Methodology and Deliverables

The project will draw upon the expertise of faculty from European and Korean universities, as well as business practitioners, non-governmental organizations, and policy-makers from the EU and Korea.

In order to stimulate debate experts from the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University and invited experts (via an extensive call for papers) will be commissioned to write a research paper on a selected sets of topics which are comparative in nature and contain an elaborate discussion on policy implications. See list of contributors and provisional titles.

After two workshops and one international EU-Korea Strategy Forum, with one event taking place in Korea, the project will produce an edited report of approximately twelve essays, including policy papers that explore how (regulatory) cooperation between the European Union and Korea can be strengthened.