The project aims, in particular, to enrich teaching practice in EU Studies with a new angle (Comparative Legal Approximation) and elaborate an innovative joint teaching methodology based on a comparative/regional approach and active learning. Three international COMPASS Simulations on Legal Approximation for students will be organised in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine to develop the skills of future professionals, stimulate experience sharing and cross-fertilisation between theory and practice. The partners will also implement a joint research project comparing the methodological approaches to the approximation with EU acquis beyond the EU borders. In addition, the COMPASS Database will be launched. It will contain comparable information on legal approximation in EaP countries (in English) facilitating access to the relevant empirical data. The Database is expected to serve as a useful tool for teaching, research and evidence-based policy-making.   

The project is coordinated by Dr Anna Khvorostiankina. It supplements and enriches the Jean Monnet Module “Legal Approximation Laboratory” currently implemented by Brusov State University.

This year, COMPASS became the only Jean Monnet activity coordinated by an Armenian university that was selected for funding.