About the Agreement
Three Seas initiative (3SI) unites 12 countries of Central Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. The target of the initiative is to act for the economic development of countries located among three seas, namely: The Baltic, The Adriatic and The Black Sea. Apart from cooperation in areas of economy and energetics, education ought to be the priority of the international format. Especially the academic part of education.
The subject of the 3SI is not only „soft” cooperation but there are many more activities supporting economics. It can be obtained by analyses, researches, conceptions and science support. All these actions would lead to the synergy of science and business. An area of the 3SI universities is an enormous intellectual potential among cultural and historical commonwealth with collective research infrastructure, new research program, innovations or partnership with The United States.
The Three Seas Initiative is a generational project which is oriented for the future. Education is the most significant factor of the initiative, since this branch of science is responsible for solutions of the most crucial socioeconomic challenges. As a consequence, cooperation would be strengthened and growth of Central and East Europe would be increased. Coherent and stable partnership among the countries can be achieved by such cooperation.
It is not a coincidence that the initiative was raised in Lublin. Lublin is an enormous academic area which aspire to the role of the 3SI leader. The city has an opportunity to connect countries of the region and to be a place which is traditionally opened for Ukraine and Lithuania. The 3SI reaches good cooperation practices as the following: Via Carpathia Polytechnic Network, Eastern-European University Network of John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Institute of East Central Europe, Lublin Universities Association, The Lublin Digital Union, Collegium Carpaticum.