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Our goal is to provide academics, governments, international organisations and NGOs with information for research and evidence-based evaluation of public policies.

We do not offer information or counselling to individuals interested in acquiring the citizenship of a particular country and we do not encourage experts in our network to answer such requests.

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"This website is a critical tool for all scholars and policy makers interested in the field of citizenship"

Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Migration Law, University of Nijmegen

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"European Citizenship is meant to be complementary to Member State nationality. The one cannot be studied or understood without the other. Now the resource exists to realize that imperative"

Joseph Weiler, New York University

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Project Info: About the Consortium and Network

EUDO CITIZENSHIP is an observatory within the European Union Observatory on Democracy (EUDO) web platform hosted at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.

It is co-directed by Rainer Bauböck (EUI, Department of Political and Social Sciences) and Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh Law School).

The Consortium in charge of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory involves five partner institutions:

- European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

- University College Dublin, Dublin (Ireland)

- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (Scotland)

- Maastricht University, Maastricht (Netherlands)

- Migration Policy Group, Brussels (Belgium)

For a list of the consortium's collaborators, click here.

For a list of the Country Experts in charge of the various country reports, click here.

For an overview of EUDO's structure and activities for 2011, click here.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP is supported and internally evaluated by an Advisory Board.

For the period January 2009 – June 2010, EUDO CITIZENSHIP was mainly financed by the EUCITAC project funded by the European Fund for the Integration of the non-EU immigrants (EIF, Directorate General for Freedom, Security and Justice of the European Commission).

EUDO CITIZENSHIP has been selected by the European Fund for the Integration of non-EU immigrants for financing of our new research project Access to citizenship and its impact on immigrant integration (ACIT).

A second source of continuous support for EUDO CITIZENSHIP since 2009 has been the CITMODES project of the British Academy.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP builds on earlier projects analysing citizenship laws and policies in Europe, both in old and new member states of the EU.

Read more about EUDO-Citizenship in an interview with the project director Rainer Bauböck for EURASYLUM.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP was launched at the January 2009 conference in Florence.