The call for the WEASA2025 Peer-to-Peer Meetings is open now !

We are pleased to announce that the call of WEASA2025 P2P Meetings is already open!

The aim of the initiative is to satisfy the requests and recommendations of our alumni who want to get to know one another better. It promotes the interaction between alumni members by providing them support for visiting their peers, researching a field of interest, holding interviews, or other professional initiatives. This year we are able to sponsor several alumni members by providing reimbursement for travel and/or accommodation for 2-4 days in a host country. The budget per visit is up to 500 EUR.

This year the funding is only for the EaP representatives, though the hosts can be from the Western Balkans.

Whom to visit

We have registered host individuals/organisations who are eager be a part of the P2P exchange. Additionally, you are welcome to look for a host within our alumni members on your own if you do not find it in the list. It can be both an individual and an organisation of the alumni who agrees to host you!

It’s worth to note that each individual / organisation should host only one WEASA alumni member. But the alumni are encouraged to meet other organisations and/or other alumni members, which will be considered as an advantage for the selection.

The interested alumni members are invited to review the list of the hosts placed on the WEASA Communication Platform (or on the WEASA all editions Facebook group), where the details about the host institutions and the contacts of the host alumni members can be found.

How to apply

Please, get in touch with one of your peers in the list or find one on your own, discuss your needs, make sure that the individual / organisation is ready and available to host you, and agree on a time frame. Only after that you can apply for the programme by sending your motivation letter to contact@weasa.org.

The motivation letter should include:

the aim of the visit;
the reasons for choosing the WEASA host;
the draft plan of the visit along with proposed dates;
the outcome(s) of the visit;
the proposed budget.

The reimbursement will be made after the visits upon presenting the proof of the expenses and the report of the visit. Please, make sure to organise the visit preferably by the end of November.

The deadline for submitting the application is 20 September 2025.

The selection process will be carried out together with our partners based on the relevance and the outcome of the visit.

Here are the summaries of the previous year P2P meetings:

WEASA2024

WEASA peer-to-peer story of Roman Karapetyan: a crossroad of collaboration: exploring European integration of Armenia and North Macedonia – WEASA

WEASA peer-to-peer story of Jetnor Kasmi: bridging lessons in anti-corruption and decriminalisation between Albania and Georgia – WEASA

WEASA peer-to-peer story of Sossi Tatikyan: what to learn from Serbia – WEASA

WEASA2023

WEASA P2P Meeting of Giorgi Iashvili: Improving the cyber resilience of the State Election Commission of North Macedonia

WEASA P2P Meeting of Vlada Ciobanu: Data visualisation skills taken from Georgia to Moldova

WEASA P2P Meeting of Nino Samkharadze: Researching how Georgia is different from Albania in terms of European integration

WEASA2022