The global objective of the proposed project is to advance awareness, knowledge and understanding of the EU in the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation by promoting education, training, research, academic links and outreach activities in the fields of EU law, EU economy, general and interdisciplinary studies on EU integration, migration and borders as well as EU-Eurasia-Russia relations.The main tasks of this project include: based on the achievements EU Centre VOICES, to develop scientific and educational activities to promote the experience of the EU in the region of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Volga district. The focus in research and education is supposed to put on issues of regional dimension of the European integration and relations between the EU and the Eurasian space.The project provides activities to conduce research and educational cooperation through academic networking, field research and teaching aimed at promotion of interdisciplinary approach to EU–Russian-Eurasian border, social policiy and migration policies and to disseminate the results of the project through different-type discussions, targeted to multiple-aged, both to academic and non-academic audience.The long-term task of the proposed Centre consists in supporting a team of scholars specializing in international relations and political science, legal and cultural studies, arranged at the interdepartmental platform of the Centre of Excellence in European Studies at Kazan Federal University, which will work successfully in research and educational fields of EU-Russian-Eurasian borders studies and migration.The proposed activity include a set of field work research, workshops, debates, summer schools and conference, educational courses and lectures, publishing newsletters, articles and books.