Transforming the Balkans

13/01/2025

17/12/2024

On November 27, 2024, the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS) hosted the third webinar in the SMIDGE Project series, “Extremist Narratives in Play: Ga...

22/10/2024

02/08/2024

📚 New publication ‼️

📌 Eda Gemi and Bledar Feta produced the annual report for the OECD Network of International Migration Experts. It maps out and analyses the 2022 – 2023 development in migration movements and policies in 🇬🇷 while providing insights into emerging trends. It also examines the latest statistical information on immigrant stocks and flows, including their size and socio-demographic features, labour market participation, and migration policies in the country.

➡️ You can read the working paper here: https://bit.ly/4fC3qEi

31/07/2024

🌐Gaming Ecosystem as a Multilayered Security Threat updates ‼️

📌 The 2nd GEMS Consortium Meeting brought together partners from across Europe to discuss the progress and future directions of the project.

📌 Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (lead WP6) team, was represented in this meeting by Ioannis Armakolas and Bledar Feta, implemented a exercise between January-May 2024 with the aim to map the activities of five categories of : state-level stakeholders, non-state stakeholders, academic institutions, European and regional organisations, and gaming world stakeholders.

➡️ Read more here: https://bit.ly/4fycvxZ

17/07/2024

The GEMS project was present at the yearly Projects to Policy Seminar event organised by the European Research Executive Agency (REA), the European Commission (DG Home) and the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS) in Brussels, on June 25-26, 2024. This annual event inv

21/06/2024

📺 Media: ABC News Albania

📌 Bledar Feta appeared on “Ballkan”, a current affairs show broadcast by ABC News Albania, where he discussed the current challenges and domestic issues that are acting as barriers to and in the Western Balkans with the journalist Linda Karadaku.

➡️ You can watch the interview in Albanian by clicking on the link in the comments.

07/06/2024

We are pleased to announce the release of the initial two comprehensive reports under the auspices of the GEMS project: the "Gaming Stakeholders Mapping Report," authored by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) pursuant to Work Package 6 (WP6), and "Extremism across the....

13/05/2024

📌 Bledar Feta presented the Gaming Ecosystem as a Multilayered Security Threat project in the EU-HYBNET fourth Annual Workshop, organized by the EU-HYBNET network in Valencia. The EU-HYBNET is a Pan-European network of security practitioners, stakeholders, academics, industry players, and SME actors across EU collaborating with each other to counter .

📌 As part of his presentation, Bledar Feta provided a pitch on the work that project is doing to tackle the pressing issue of within the ecosystem.

📌 We would like to thank the EU-HYBNET for providing us with the opportunity to be part of such an important event. More information is availble on the link in the comments.

07/05/2024

On April 24, 2024, the GEMS project was featured at the EU-HYBNET consortium's 4th Annual Workshop in Valencia, Spain. Bledar Feta from South-East Europe Programme/ ELIAMEP delivered a presentation on GEMS' latest research findings. The event, organized by the Policía Local Valencia (Valencia Local Police), aimed to enhance collaboration among European security stakeholders.

The workshop facilitated vital discussions on hybrid threats and provided a platform for networking, contributing to potential future collaborations. The outcomes and insights from this event are available on the EU-HYBNET website and its social media channels.

GEMS website news update: https://www.projectgems.eu/post/gems-eu-hybnet-valencia-spain
EU Hybnet website: https://euhybnet.eu/upcoming-events/eu-hybnet-4th-annual-workshop-aw-453-352/?occurrence=2024-04-24
EU Hybnet X: https://twitter.com/EuHybnet

13/02/2024

📌 You can visit the social media accounts of Gaming Ecosystem as a Multilayered Security Threat and its website in order to watch Bledar Feta's presentation of the project on the TV show Σύνορα of the Greek Public Television.
ℹ️ The video is provided with encoded English subtitles.

The GEMS project was presented for the first time on the TV show “SYNORA” of the Greek Public Television in the context of project’s communication strategy which aims to communicate its goals and objectives to wider audiences. In his discussion with journalist Kalli Zarali, Bledar Feta, P/CVE ...

05/01/2024

05/12/2023

Ana Krsitnovska and Bledar Feta wrote a research paper on China’s Influence on the Western Balkans’ EU Accession Process. This study examines the influence of China’s presence and activities on the European Union (EU) integration process of the Western Balkans. Since the Thessaloniki Summit...

16/11/2023

🌍 Introducing our new 🇪🇺 HORIZON EUROPE project 𝐆𝐄𝐌𝐒 – 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭
📌 GEMS is an interdisciplinary, mixed-method and cross-sectoral project bringing together academic researchers, AI specialists, policy experts and a range of police authorities from across Europe which aims to minimize, if not eliminate, online radicalization and especially extremist recruitment at its roots, particularly in in-game communication platforms.
📌 Learn more about the projects' hypothesis and rationale in the graph 👇

🌍 Introducing our new 🇪🇺 HORIZON EUROPE project 𝐆𝐄𝐌𝐒 – 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭

📌 GEMS is an interdisciplinary, mixed-method and cross-sectoral project bringing together academic researchers, AI specialists, policy experts and a range of police authorities from across Europe which aims to minimize, if not eliminate, online radicalization and especially extremist recruitment at its roots, particularly in in-game communication platforms.

📌 Learn more about the projects' hypothesis and rationale in the graph 👇