Introduction 1. This research notably involves the ongoing consultation of the private archives of the Werner family, focusing on various specific topics. The CVCE has been granted privileged access to these archives through a partnership agreement signed with the Werner family. These archives, compiled by a figure who actively participated in three decades of European integration, had long remained unexplored.
They have already yielded a host of original documents that shed new light on various aspects of the European integration process and also on the role of Luxembourg and its European policy.
The first stage of the research project focuses on the plan for the establishment by stages of an economic and monetary union in the Community more widely known as the Werner Report or the Werner Plan , drawn up by a group of experts chaired by Pierre Werner and officially presented on 8 October in Luxembourg. At the end of each stage of the project, the results will be structured and presented in the form of digital research corpora, 2 the first of which focuses on the Werner Report and is geared towards the academic community.
They will be subject to a peer review process by a steering committee of external experts prior to publication in the dedicated research space of the site www. The creation of a subject file for educational purposes is also in the pipeline, as is the organisation of an academic event based on the general theme of the project.
These will both be subject to a peer review process. Corpora are aimed at the research community and are geared towards intensive research and the analysis of specific research questions. In addition to sources and resources, research corpora also include two further dimensions: tools and academic expertise. It is also intended that the two research corpora and the subject file should incorporate and exploit a diverse range of other documentary resources, including sound, video and image archives and specific oral accounts recorded by the CVCE.
