The project “Modern challenges to the European integration: international policy and legal aspects” involves comparative legal and political studies combined with the exchange of the results and opinions, and joint efforts of Spanish and Russian scholars. All these efforts will lead to a better understanding of the present state of European integration processes and of existing and potential challenges and threats to them. In the course of project the expert teams from North-West Institute of Management of RANEPA (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) will be brought together to discuss the most topical and challenging issues the European has to face in the modern world. The discussion during project events will be open for access of students and professionals so they could directly participate in it and not only recieve new knowledge and become aware of the recent state of EU studies and new challenges to the European integration, but also echange their opinions with academic experts in the field of EU studies and modern global challenges studies. this will ensure the highest possible rank of the public and target groups involvement into the project activity in particular and European studies in general.