ul. Bałuckiego 1/16
Wrocław
Poland
- Research
FEPS was founded in order to enhance and facilitate high quality interdisciplinary research in Social Sciences and Humanities, to promote new methodological approaches and to link academics, ambitious students and practitioners. This way, FEPS also contributes to the bottom-up reform of the Polish system of higher education - by promoting best practices and connecting ambitious researchers from Poland with their counterparts in other countries.
FEPS works in four main areas: the contemporary German studies, media and public opinion, the condition of the European Union, and Transitional Justice. All our programs are interdisciplinary and engage political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians and social psychologists, but we also welcome contributions from other disciplines. Beyond these the Foundation runs activities aimed at improving the think tank environment in Poland.
Currently FEPS leads projects connected with monitoring activities as well as publishing and holding workshops and conferences. One of the most important ones that just has been finished was to reveal the shortcomings of information to the public from the media regarding the social impact of Polish intervention in Afghanistan. Another monitoring project concentrates on specifying and improving the exchange of information and the level of coordination between the different local, regional and national representatives of Poland (members of the EU’s Committee of the Regions, of the Sejm’s Committee for European Affairs, the regional MPs and NGOs and the local and regional administration). Another important project named ‘Think Tank Generator’ aims to attract Polish and German students to write texts suitable for Think Tanks requirements. FEPS runs also variety of projects concentrated on supporting non-formal education, from August 2011 there are seminars run in Belarus among youth workers, educators and teachers.