Foteini Asderaki is a Professor of European Integration Theory and European Education Policy and a Jean Monnet Chair on European Union’s Education, Training, Research and Innovation Policies at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece. She is the Chair of the European Doctoral School for the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Security and Defence College, European/External Action Service, in Brussels. She holds a PhD with distinction in Political Sciences issued by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her thesis was awarded the Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Greece in memory of Theodoros Karatzas by the Hellenic University Association for European Studies in 2008. She has been awarded with Greek and European scholarships and grants (Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation-IKY, Erasmus Program). She is the director of the Laboratory on Education Policy, Research, Development, and Interuniversity Cooperation of the University of Piraeus and the Co-director of the Regional Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EXCELEM. She has served as a Board member and Vice Chair of the Steering Committee for the Group I-Western Europe and North America at the International Bureau of Education, Unesco, Geneva, 2016-17, as a Bologna Follow-Up Group Member, 2004-09 and as a member of various national, regional, and bilateral committees in education (Member of the Committee for Intercultural Education; Cluster on Modernization of Higher Education; Greek-French committee; Greek-German committee). She is an evaluator of European research programmes and awards. She has been the academic coordinator of several European programmes and the European Parliament School Ambassador Programme in Greece.
Sara De Vido is an Associate Professor of international law at Ca’ Foscari university of Venice, Italy, and affiliate to the Manchester International Law Centre, UK. She was vice-director of the Centre for human rights in Ca’ Foscari from 2014 to 2018. She has extensively written on international human rights law, including migration issues, persecution on the basis of gender, and reflected on the role of the European Court of Justice on the protection of migrants’ rights. She is an expert at European level of the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention.
