To effectively withstand external disinformation campaigns, capacities of the Visegrad and Eastern Partnership countries to prevent, detect and effectively respond to them should be monitored and continuously enhanced. The project will contribute to achieving this goal by conducting a systematic study of the exposure of respective countries and societies to external information operations and their readiness to handle them. It will review the changes in the operational landscape since 2018 and find out to what extent the recommendations provided in the past have been implemented by state institutions, journalist communities, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustain able regional cooperation in Central Europe.
The project is coordinated by the Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center), an independent, interdisciplinary think-tank focused on post-Soviet and east European studies.
Other project partners include:
◉ Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
◉ Political Capital Ltd., Hungary
◉ STRATPOL–Strategic Policy Institute, Slovakia
◉ Media Reforms Center, Ukraine
◉ ”WatchDog.MD” Community, Moldova
◉ Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), Azerbaijan
◉ Centre for Policy Studies, Armenia
◉ Foundation “Liberal Academy-Tbilisi”, Georgia
