In this episode, we talk to professors Ramona Coman (ULB) and Zolt Enyedi (CEU), as they share with us some of the initial findings and questions of their respective Horizon Europe-funded collective research projects, respectively RED-SPINEL and AUTHLIB.

Ramona Coman, who leads the RED-SPINEL project, is a professor of political science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. She is also a former director and president of the Institut d’études européennes (IEE) and she studied political science, comparative politics, and European studies in Brussels. Her research interests include EU institutions, the EU decision-making process, the Rule of Law, democratic transitions, and comparative politics.

Zolte Enyedi, who leads the AUTHLIB project, is a professor at the Department of Political Science of the Central European University. He studied comparative social sciences, history, sociology, and political science in Budapest and Amsterdam. His research focuses on party politics, comparative government, church-and-state relations, and political psychology.

Throughout the episode, both Principal Investigators generously share how they came to set up their respective research agendas, and what the projects have allowed for so far. Overall, this is a particularly timely episode as it comes in the run-up to the June European election, and it explores among others how research imperatives and agendas intersect with political ones.

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"Making sense of EU" is a podcast created and produced by the Institut d’études européennes (IEE) of the Université libre de Bruxelles, in which scientific research sheds light on the pressing issues of EU affairs. Its 2nd series, RED-SPINEL, focuses on the challenges liberal democracy is facing in the European Union.

This serie is a product of the Horizon Europe Research project RED-SPINEL and is co-funded by the European Union.

ULB Podcasts, les podcasts de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.

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