NAVIGATOR

“The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation”

NAVIGATOR is a 4-year research project, coordinated by Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (Oslo), set to examine how the EU shall navigate the increasingly complex – and conflict-laden – institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order.

^{Consortium members and external experts at the 2nd expert groups meeting in Berlin, March 2025} 

What factors should be emphasized when considering which institutions to strengthen, which to reform, and which to by-pass when revitalising multilateralism?
NAVIGATOR’s main objective is to answer these questions and deliver a ready-to-use “search mechanism” and associated pathways of action that the EU and its member states can use as it seeks to strengthen a rules-based international order.

To achieve this, NAVIGATOR comprises a strong, global and inter-disciplinary team of researchers that explores institutional variation on six policy issues – climate change, digitalisation, finance/tax, health, migration and security – to identify what institutional mixes that enables the EU to have optimal impact in a given policy issue. The IEE-ULB's team is particularly involved in the activities related to migration as well as in the dissemination activities of the project.