Founding director of Austrian-based Oikodrom, a pioneer in integrated sustainability research related to human settlements. Heidi Dumreiche works in theory and practice on the future of the city, contributing to the Aalborg Charter, the foundational European document on urban sustainability...

Inès Safi is a CNRS researcher in quantum physics at the Paris-Saclay-Orsay campus. She develops pioneering theories widely spread internationally and inspiring many successful experiments. In parallel, she contributes, through fora and conferences, to rehabilitate the place of science, feminity...

Cultural manager and university lecturer. Coordinator of the Culture 2000 programme in Poland (2003-2005), coordinator on the European Affairs Unit in the Ministry of Culture since 2005. Currently chief specialist in the International Cultural Centre in Kraków; coordinator of the...

Jody Jensen is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and assistant professor in international economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest. She is also the founder of the Institute of...

Former High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Initiative which aims to improve understanding and cooperative relations among nations and peoples across cultures. Jorge Sampaio is also the former President of the Republic of Portugal from1996 to...

Director of the Chair for Research in Social Sciences and Security at the European University of Madrid. For over 35 years Diez-Nicolas has chaired the Universities of Malaga, Autonomous of Madrid, UNED, and the Complutense of Madrid. At present he...

Professor at Cracow University of Economics. Pedziwiatr's expertise lies in Sociology of migration and religion, social movements, Islam and Muslim communities in Europe, Islamism in MENA countries, immigrants in Poland and Polish migration policy. Recently he has been involved in...

Professor of Sociology and Public Policies at the European University of Tirana. Barjaba received a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2005, and has been an elected Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences...

Larbi Sadiki is a Professor in Arab democratisation at the Department of International Affairs, Qatar University. Previously based at the Political Science Department, University of Exeter, UK, and taught at the University of Westminster subjects ranging from IR to politics...

Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Valencia. Navarro's research focuses on media and migrations in the Euro-Mediterranean space, and lecturer in the master 'Intercultural Mediation and Citizen Participation' (University of Valencia, Spain). She has worked also in the...