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She graduated at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Firenze, PhD at the European University Institute, many post-Phd grants at the European University Institute, the University of Firenze and CNR.

Her main research field is the history of the European integration, with a special focus on the political history of CAP and the external relations of the European communities.

She taught at the Florence Campus of some American universities and from 1997/98 to 2003/04 she taught History of the European Integration at the University of Florence, Faculty of Arts (Jean Monnet Module). Since 1997/98 she taught at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, History of the International relations, Contemporary History and History of the European Integration.

Since September 2004 she is President of the Scientific Committee of Punto Europa Forlì (Europe Direct Centre of European Commission since 2007 and Jean Monnet centre of Excellence since 2014)

JM Chair in History of the European Integration at the Faculty of Political Sciences “R. Ruffilli” of the University of Bologna (2005-2010). JM Chair ad personam (since 2010)

He has achieved a PhD in "Institutions, Ideas and Political Movements in Contemporary Europe", at the University of Pavia, with a research project on “the Birth and the development of the information policy of the European Communities (1952-1967)”. He has attended several courses on Euro-project management and reporting. He completed his training with courses on politics and decision making in the public administration. 

Manager of Punto Europa Forlì since December 2000. Punto Europa has become in 2007 an Europe Direct Information Centre of the European Commission, in 2014 has been recognized by the European Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and in 2018 as an European Documentation Centre. He has always worked in the field of European project management and reporting, taking part to several funding calls (many of those were granted from the European institutions). He is very experienced in teaching euro-project management in Italy and abroad.

She is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Director of research at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War in Florence, and Resident Member of the Bologna Institute for Advanced Studies. She has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and participant in the International Visitors Programme of the US Department of State. Her areas of expertise include the EU foreign policy and external image, European security, NATO, European identity and Foreign Policy, Migration and Global Justice. She is Team Leader in the project GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice(2016-2020; Horizon 2020); and has been Lead Scientist in the project PREDICT (NATO grant); in the Network of Excellence GARNET (EU VI FP) and in the Research project EU-GRASP (EU VII FP). She has also received grants for individual research projects form NATO, the Volkswagen Stiftung, the Ministry of foreign Affairs and the Institute for International Affairs in Rome.

Dra. Paulina Astroza Suárez

Lawyer (Universidad de Concepción, Chile). Ph.D. (2016), LLM and Diploma degree in Political and Social Sciences (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium). Currently Jean Monnet Chair with the project "Knowing Europe from the end of the world" (2017-2020), one of the few chairs granted to Latin American academics. Professor of International Law and International Relations at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile). Responsible for the Jean Monnet project "Relations between the European Union and Latin America: Future scenarios in a changing world" (2018-2020).

One of the most recognized specialists in Chile in European studies. Former manager of the Jean Monnet module (2010-2013). She is the Vice-president of ECSA-Chile. She was the co-coordinator and academic chair of several Alpha Dikia projects. Part of various EU multilateral projects (Bologna, Oradea, Siegen). Dictated conferences on European subjects in Latin America and Europe. She has taught classes in several universities in Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Italy, Germany and Spain. She has published articles in Chile, Argentine, Italy, Belgium and Romania on relations European issues. Invited by AECEA to participate as an exhibitor at EU-Latin America Seminar (Peru, 2016), at the Jean Monnet Cluster Meeting "Trends and Developments in European Studies" (Belgium, 2013) and invited for the JM conference to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome (Italy, 2017). She has run the PEE from 2002 and made this program the only permanent, interdisciplinary program on European Studies in Chile.

He holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Erriko Unibertsitatea. His dissertation analyzed Cross-border Paradiplomacy in MERCOSUR. He also holds a Master degree in Global and Regional Economic Integration, a Master in Economic Integration Law, and a B.A. in International Relations.

 He is Head of Promotion and Exchange of Regional Social Policies Department at the Social Institute of MERCOSUR (ISM) in Paraguay. Previously, he has served as Regional Advisor in Business Environment and Regional Value Chains at the Center for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprise (Cenpromype/SICA), in El Salvador. From 2012 to 2017, he focused his professional activities in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, leading the value chains component of the project “Inclusive Growth, Rural Industrial Policy and Participatory Value Chains in Latin America and the Caribbean” conducted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). During his professional career he has collaborated with the InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB) in El Salvador and Honduras, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Mozambique, the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV) in Mexico, the Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas (UIM) in Spain, and the Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI) in Italy.

Author, co-author and editor of several books on paradiplomacy, cross-border cooperation and value chains published in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and Portuguese. Nahuel Oddone has been recognized as one of the main voices of paradiplomacy in Latin America.

Mario Torres Jarrín is Director of the European Institute of International Studies (Sweden), Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer in Regionalism in Latin America in the Chair of International Business and Society Relations with focus of Latin America at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He is Executive Secretary IBERO-EURO-AMERICA Consortium of Universities, Institutes and Institutions (Spain), Member of the Bi-Regional Council of the Latin America and Caribbean-EU Academic Forum and Member of the Task Force “The future of work and education for the digital age” G20/T20 Summits. Member of the UNESCO Chair in Social Sciences, Public Policies and Democratic Governance I-Global / FUNGLODE (Dominican Republic).

 Previously, he was Scholar Associate, Lecturer in Regional Studies and Research Associate in the Institute of Latin American Studies, as well as, Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University (2010-2018). He has been a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Bergen and University of Oslo (Norway), University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania), University of Salamanca (Spain), University of Economics and Anglo American University (Czech Republic) and Institute of Foreign Service of the Nation (Diplomatic Academy of Argentina).

 He holds a PhD in History, a Master in European Union Studies, and a BA in Business from the University of Salamanca (Spain). His research interests include international relations and diplomacy, EU Foreign affairs and security, EU & Latin America and the Caribbean relations, European and Latin American integration history, theories of regional integration and interregionalism, international political economy, global governance.

 Currently, he is Member of the Jean Monnet Project “Relations between the European Union and Latin America: Future scenarios in a changing world”. Approved project in July 2018, by Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency of the European Commission (EACEA). Research period is 3 years (2018-2020), this project is led by University of Concepcion (Chile) in coordination with the European Institute of International Studies (Sweden). Research Group Member at Jean Monnet Module on International Private Law in the Research Center for International Private Law at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Research Group Member at Jean Monnet Project “Over the Atlantic. EU and Latin American Relations: Between Diplomacy and Paradiplomacy”, project led by University of Bologna (Italy). Approved project in July 2019 by EACEA. Research period 2019-2021.

Guirao has been acting as a Jean Monnet professor since 1995 (ad personam chair since 2013). He has long experience with and wide expertise in Jean Monnet activities. He has been teaching EU-related courses mainly in the BA programmes in Business, Economics, Humanities and Political Science at Pompeu Fabra University. Guirao has also taught EU-courses at other Barcelona academic centres (Autonomous University, Centre for International Studies and the public schools for International Trade and Public Administration) and internationally (Soul and Nantes universities). Guirao is also active in presenting European Integration to public opinion through innovative channels: 1/ A 6-week Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) which Guirao offered twice (April and June 2016) through the UK-based FutureLearn platform. The first edition registered 7,037 students and the second 4,271. 2/ An exhibition on the 30^th anniversary of Spain’s accession to the European Communities, Ara fa 30 anys, which toured throughout Catalonia during 2016 (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona).

Since 2010, Professor Carlos E. Pacheco Amaral has been a Jean Monnet Chairholder in Regionalism and Political Organization at the University of the Azores. Coordinator of the Research Unit Portugal and The Seas |Europeism and the Transatlantic Relastionship, of the Center for Humanist Studies of the University of the Azores he is also co-coordinator of the Research Group Europeanism, Atlanticity and Globalization of the Interdisciplinary Centre for 20^th Century Studies of the University of Coimbra. He is tutor of various Master and PhD dissertations at the University of the Azores on Political Philosophy and European Studies and well as of a post-doctor in Federalism and integration. Member of the Scientific Council of the Master in European Studies lead by the University of Siena, in Italy, he integrates the Gropu of Independent Experts of the Congress f Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

Professor of Contemporary History of European Study at the University of Nantes, he is Director of Institute of European and global Studies Alliance Europe. Specialized in history of International relationship of Twentieth Century, and in European Integration History, he is member of CHRIA, Center of research in International and Atlantic History where he manages the research about “« L’Europe, les Européens et le monde ».  In charge of Master in “Ingénierie en projets européens et internationaux” and of axe 4 du Labex EHNE, « Ecrire une nouvelle histoire de l'Europe » « Write a new European History ».