The second edition of the MAXCAP newsletter will present the recent research activities including both MAXCAP publication reports and partner publications. Besides these publications, the newsletter will provide insights from the Policy Briefing on the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, which took place on December 3, 2013 in Berlin. In this context Klaudijus Maniokas, a MAXCAP Advisory Board member, will comment on Ukraine in the wake of the Vilnius Summit. Also, a MAXCAP Resource Database compiling data links on EU enlargement and the EU’s neighborhood relations as well as an overview about the European Commission’s Open Access Policy and requirements will be presented.