Two edited volumes and one monograph were written during the six years of the project. All of them are available open access. While the first, European constitutional imaginaries: Between ideology and utopia (OUP 2024) set the stage for the whole project and let us engage with colleagues focusing on the EU and its constitutionalism as the centre of the imaginary activity, the second was a true collective product of Jan Komárek, IMAGINE’s PI, and his three postdoctoral collaborators, Marina Bán, Birgit Aasa and Michal Krajewski.

There have been many internal discussions (which is perhaps too mild a word for sometimes heated debates among us) on how to shape the book (and the creative process that led to it). The book’s title, European Constitutionalism the Other Way Round: From the Periphery to the Centre, expresses the key ambition of the book: to “turn the tables” with our colleagues from the “old” EUrope and for once set the agenda for them, not vice versa as is usual when post-communist EUrope is being studied. We are proud that Cambridge University Press publishes this book, especially as we know that edited volumes now face hard times. But believe us: this one is more than “just” a collection of conference papers and results from the three years of work of our team. Thank you, Marina, Birgit and Michal!

The last book, Jan Komárek’s monograph, could not be written without the two previous ones – and the contributions made by countless number of colleagues (many of them friends), who commented on various drafts, working paper or articles that Jan wrote in preparation of this book. We believe that The Imaginary Factory: Constitutional Scholars and EUrope’s Constitutionalism (to be published by the Cambridge University Press) will change the way in which legal scholars think about constitutional law and theory in EUrope – and beyond.