Brussels – Applications are open until 15 November for the new call for the selection of 15 diplomats under the EU Diplomatic Programme for the Enlargement Region (EUDP), which aims to foster regional cooperation and strengthen understanding of EU affairs among junior diplomats and officials from the ten EU enlargement partners.
The EU Diplomatic Programme for the Enlargement Region – funded by the Directorate-General for Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood (DG ENEST) and implemented by the College of Europe – was first launched in 2025 and comprises six editions, running until 2028. The fifth edition of the programme is expected to take place from 2 February to 2 July 2027.
The initiative is specifically tailored to junior diplomats working in the fields of foreign policy and EU accession from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and Türkiye. The programme primarily targets staff from Ministries of Foreign Affairs, as well as other ministries and state institutions, with between one and three participants selected from each EU enlargement partner.
The EU Diplomatic Programme for the Enlargement Region is a five-month, full-time residential programme delivered by the College of Europe at its Bruges campus in Belgium.
Each edition is structured around four months of classroom teaching and study visits to the European Commission and other EU institutions involved in EU enlargement policy, including one week of study visits in Poland, organised by the College of Europe’s Natolin campus in Warsaw, and one week of visits to EU institutions in Luxembourg and Strasbourg and to the diplomatic academies of EU member states. This is followed by one month of job shadowing at the participants’ respective Permanent Missions in Brussels.
More information about the call for applications for the fifth edition can be found here.
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