The Center for EU Enlargement Studies is pleased to announce the launch of its new online journal entitled “EU Frontiers Student Paper Series,” which is specifically geared towards students and young experts of European foreign policy. Interested readers will be able access the publication in an independent sub-menu on the website.

As a policy research institution, CENS is dedicated to contributing to the debate on the future of a “Wider Europe” by exploring the results and lessons of previous EU enlargements, assessing the developments concerning the enlargement policy in the Western Balkans and Turkey as well as the neighborhood policy towards the EU’s Eastern neighborhood. With its activities, CENS seeks to widen the network of experts who deal with the issue of EU enlargement broadly understood. In doing so, the Center is committed to serving as an international hub for young talents –both professional and academic—for discussing the road that lies ahead for Europe, and how previous enlargements have pushed the limits of the European project.

For the “EU Frontiers Student Paper Series”, we welcome publications that discuss European enlargement and neighborhood policy vis-à-vis the Western Balkans, the Eastern neighborhood and Turkey; as well as works dealing with the lessons of previous enlargements.

The first volume of the online journal features papers on EU relations with Turkey, Serbia, Kosovo, Belarus, Ukraine, and on the EU’s common foreign and security policy.

Those who aspire to test their analytical and writing skills on pressing issues of EU enlargement and neighborhood policy are welcome to submit manuscripts to the annual call for papers. The next call is expected to be out in December 2013.