CASE Network

CASE has capitalized on its institutional experience by helping to co-found a network of independent research institutes across post-communist countries:

• CASE-Belarus (Poland)
• CASE-Kyrgyzstan
• CASE Moldova
• CASE-Transcaucasus (Georgia) 
• CASE Ukraine
• IPM-CASE Research Centre (Belarus)
• Institute for the Economy in Transition (Russia)

The network represents our continued efforts to increase the range and quality of economic information available to decision-makers and the public across the post-communist world, as well as to foster vibrant civil sectors in these societies.

External Networks

CASE is an institutional member of six external networks:
 
ENEPRI - The European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes brings together 24 leading national economic policy research institutes from most of the EU-27 countries. The goals of the network are to foster the international diffusion of existing research, co-ordinate research plans, conduct joint-research and increase public awareness of the European dimension of national economic policy issues.  ENEPRI is one of the primary avenues through which CASE participates since its membership in 2002 in pan-European research projects focused on health and social policy issues.  In 2007, our researchers worked alongside ENEPRI partners in the AHEAD and AIM projects.  ENEPRI is coordinated by the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).  

EUROFRAME-EFN: EUROPEAN FORECASTING NETWORK (EFN) brings together ten of the most respected economic forecasting and research institutes in Europe to produce twice-yearly reports on the euro area for the European Commission's Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs.  The reports include economic forecasts, policy monitoring and coverage of special policy topics.  CASE joined EUROFRAME-EFN in late 2007 after contributing to specific EUROFRAME-EFN projects from 2005 onward.  The network is coordinated by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin. 

FEMISE - FORUM Euro-Méditerranéen des Instituts Économiques is a Euro-Mediterranean network which brings together more than 70 independent economic institutes from across the European Union and Middle East and North African regions to conduct socio-economic analysis of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.  CASE joined FEMISE in October 2006 and began to actively participate in FEMISE activities in 2007.  FEMISE is coordinated by the Institute for the Mediterranean in Marseille and the Economic Research Forum in Cairo.  

ERAWATCH is a European web-based service that supports evidence-based policy making in Europe and contributes to the realization of the European Research Area (ERA).  The ERA aims to create a more coherent science and technology environment across the European Union through improved coordination of existing and future member states' national scientific and technology capacities.    The overarching objective of this network covering 43 countries is to provide knowledge and a better understanding of national and regional research systems and of the environment in which they operate.  CASE is an associate member of ERAWATCH.  The network is a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorates-General for Research and Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville, Spain, in collaboration with CORDIS.

ARETT - The Association of Russian Economic Think Thanks was created in 2002 in Moscow to bring together scientific and research institutes and not-profit organizations, as well as teams of researchers studying economic policy.  CASE joined ARETT in the fall of 2004 as an observer.

PASOS - The Policy Association for an Open Society supports the development and strengthens the outreach and impact of its 31member policy centres and five Associate Members.  Since its establishment in 2003 in Prague, members provide policy advice to the European and Central Asian decision-makers and international organisations on issues as diverse as human rights, economic development, legal reform, management of governmental reforms, social policy, education, health, religion, international co-operation, small enterprise development, public participation and public sector management.  CASE joined in 2007.

In 2007, we continued to support the Association of Polish Non-Governmental Organizations known as 'Grupa Zagranica'.  This is a group of 40 Polish organizations which are united by the international scope of their work and by their aim to educate and inform Europeans about the needs of people living in developing countries.  Grupa Zagranica in turn gave us valuable support in developing the concept behind the Fostering Global Responsibility project that we launched in the beginning of 2008 and that focuses on increasing understanding of the European Union's international development agenda in the new member states.