Team

President of the Ukrainian European Studies Association (UESA), PhD in Law, Associate Professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘Western Ukrainian Research Centre for European Studies’ and scholarship holder at the University of Augsburg (Germany). Administrative coordinator of the EU-CARE project.

Academic coordinator of the EU-CARE project, UESA Board Member, Director of the Sustainable Development Center at Dnipro University of Technology, PhD in Economics.

Coordinator of international projects including HIVE ‘HEI Innovation for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship’ (Horizon Europe), the NAWA project ‘Green Transition in Ukrainian Universities’, the Erasmus+ project ‘Universities-Communities: strengthening cooperation’ and the UNDP/EU project ‘Community-Based Approach to Local Sustainable Development’.

More than 20 years of scientific, educational and organisational experience in international economic relations, the SDGs and higher education. Coordinator of the UNDP/EU Sustainable Development Network, Vice-Head of the Sectoral Expert Council at NAQA, member of the Young Scientists Council of MESU and of the Board of the NGO ‘Innovation University’, expert of the Quality Agency for HE (Latvia) and expert at the External Quality Board of the Erasmus+ project UTTERLY.

PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor, Acting Head of the Department of European and Regional Studies, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine).

Expert in the political and economic aspects of European integration, the common policies of the EU, EU enlargement, EU tourism policy, EU-Ukraine relations, the educational policy of the EU and international project management. Part-time expert of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine).

Coordinator of the Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE project ‘University - Communities: strengthening cooperation’ (UniCom, 2022-2027) and of the Jean Monnet Module ‘EU Common Policies: alignment strategies for Ukraine’ (EUCPASU, 2022-2025). Senior Research Fellow at the IFNUL Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘Western Ukrainian Research Centre for European Studies’ since 2018, member of the NGO ‘Innovative University’ since 2019 and of UESA since 2010. Senior Sectoral Policy Fellow on the EU project ‘Support for the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’ (Association4U, 2017-2019). She has advised the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on approximating Ukrainian legislation to EU norms and standards and on implementing the Bologna process.

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Security and Strategic Studies, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and Head of the Centre of Northern European countries at IFNUL. Research interests: resilience, EU foreign and security policy, EU migration policy, regional cooperation and the Baltic-Black Sea region.

In August 2024 she completed a research internship at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, within the NAWA programme ‘Solidarity with Ukraine’. Team member of the Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building project ‘Universities-Communities: Strengthening Cooperation (UNICOM)’ and the Jean Monnet Module ‘EU Common Policies: Harmonization Strategies for Ukraine’.

Head of the Centre for International Cooperation and Lecturer at the Intercultural Communication and Translation Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Team member of the joint projects ‘Learnopolis’ (2019-2021) and ‘Learnopolis+’ (2021-2023) between Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the University of Bayreuth, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Initiator and coordinator of the DAAD ‘East-West Dialogue’ project ‘Between Apocalypse and Breakthrough: The War in Donbas in Ukrainian Crisis Literature’ (2021), team member of ‘Sophie Scholl. 100 Years Since Her Birth’ (2021-2022, Hanns Seidel Foundation in Ukraine) and coordinator of ‘Chemnitz-Lviv Learning Bridge’ (2022) and ‘Chemnitz-Lviv Learning Bridge 2.0’ (2023) in the DAAD ‘Digital Ukraine’ programme.