Borders, Security and the Common European Perspective. Fundamental rights, free movement and the migration crisis - GovArt2024

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Sociology
16 Jul 2024 to 21 Jul 2024
Oinousses
  1. Prof. Panagiotis Grigoriou, European and International Institutions, University of the Aegean. Holder of Jean Monnet European Chair since 2002. Director of 2 Master's Programmes : Management of Refugee and Migratory Flows in Europe and European Integration & European Societies. He published recently : Studying Europe, Eurasia, Athens, 2024 and nternational law through the institutional developments of the European Union.New perceptions of the international and EU legal order, Kallipos Publications, 2024
  2. Prof. Foteini Asderaki, Professeor of European Integration Theory and European Education Policy at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece. She holds a Ph.D. with distinction in Political Sciences issued by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is currently 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
  3. Prof. Andrea Rea, Full professor in sociology at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Andrea Rea founded and is a member of the research centre Group for studies on Ethnic Relations, Migrations and Equality (GERME). His research focuses on migration studies, in Brussels and Belgium. He also works together with the Universities of Geneva and Montreal. Since 2018, he is the President of the Press.
  4. Prof. Michel Catala,Professor of contemporary European history at the University of Nantes and Director of the Institute of European and Global Studies Alliance Europa. A specialist in the history of international relations in the 20th century, his work also focuses on the history of European integration. A member of the Research Centre for Atlantic and International History (CRHIA), he is the director of the LabEx EHNE research theme “Europe, Europeans and the World”.
  5. Prof. Arnauld Leclerc,Professor of Political Science, Head of the Mission Démocratie Universitaire Chaire Jean Monnet "Telos, Ethos, Nomos de l'Europe", Member of Droit et Changement Social (UMR n°6297) Co-Head of the Master 2 Science Politique de l'Europe (Political Science of Europe)
  6. Prof. Philippe Grieu, Université de Toulouse, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Attaché de coopération scientifique et universitaire à l'Ambassade de France en Grèce
  7.  Prof. Andrea Rea,  Full professor in sociology Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Vice Dean of the Faculty of social and political sciences
     Member of the research centre : Group for studies on Ethnic Relations, Migrations and Equality - GERME
  8. Prof. Aris Georgopoulos,
    Professor in European and Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Nottingham and Head of the Innovation, AI, Strategic and Defence Procurement Research Unit of the Public Procure­ment Research Group (PPRG). He is also Co-lead of the Research Unit Public Procurement Human Rights and Social Sustainability. He has been Global Governance Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) of the same Institution. He has been also a Grotius Fel­low at the Law School of the University of Michigan, Visiting Fellow at the University of Castilla la Mancha and at the University of Neuchâtel. He has acted as expert advisor to companies in the area of public/strategic/defence procurement compliance and to national authorities, international organisations and institutions (such as the OECD, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, The European Court of Auditors, The European Trade Union Institute and the USAID,) in the areas of public/defence procurement regulatory reform. His research interests lie in the area of public law, EU Law, public pro­curement law and policy and the intersections of these fields with new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. He has taught at Universities in the United States, Brazil, China, Colombia, Italy, Ma­laysia, Serbia and Turkey. He is a member of the editorial board of the Public Procurement Law Review and member of the scientific committee of the Revista Digital de Derecho Administrativo. He has published widely in the fields of public procurement, strategic procurement, including COVID-19 healthcare procurement, defence procurement law and policy, public law and EU law.
  9. Author and editor of 350 publications (books, articles, comments etc.) on International Law, European Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, International Organizations and Hellenic Foreign Policy, published in Greece and abroad.
    Director of the Cahiers de Droit International et de Politique Internationale, the first electronic journal in the field of International Law and International Relations
  10. Professor Emeritus, Pierre Vercauteren is a political scientist and professor of political science who teaches at UCLouvain FUCaM Mons. He has a degree in international relations and public administration (UCLouvain, 1984), a degree in European studies (UCLouvain, 1984) and a doctorate in political and social sciences (ULB, 1998) 2 He is mainly known for his interventions in various Belgian media including RTL-TVI, RTBF, La Libre Belgique, Le Soir, etc. Like other Belgian political scientists, he has been a regular consultant on television programmes since the negotiations for the formation of a Belgian government in 2003, 2007 and 2010, as well as in their various activities. From 2000 to 2008, he was a guest lecturer at the Free University of Brussels where he taught the « Global Governance » course. He is Secretary General of the international research network REGIMEN (Réseau d’Étude sur la Globalisation et la Gouvernance Internationale et les Mutations de l’Etat et des Nations). He is a member of the LARGOTEC research laboratory at the University of Paris Est, guest lecturer at IEP de Fontainebleau and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  11.  Dr Evangelia Vlachou, Post-doc Researcher in European Public Law at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and academic Staff of the Laboratory of Social and Political Institution of the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean and a collaborator at the Jean Monnet European Chair (Prof. Dr.Panos Grigoriou). Management positions in Public Administration in Greece for over 20 years (public and european law). Lecturer at the University of the Aegean (and at the Hellenic Open University. Teaching at the National School of Judicial Officers and the National School of Public Administration and Local-Government.
  12. Dr Eleftheria Ftaklaki, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean, Lesvos (Greece). Title of PhD thesis: “The impact of the European regional authorities on the Europeanisation of cooperation in external policies:
    Case study - the Cotonou Partnership Agreement
  13. Dr Lorena Calvo Mariscal,llenic
    Doctor by the Universidad de Cádiz with the thesis Inmigración, desterritorialización de controles migratorios y derechos humanos el caso de Libia y la responsabilidad de la unión europea 2023. Assistant Lecturer in International Public Law and European Union Law, University of Cadiz. Academic Coordinator and Research Member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Migration and Human Rights at the External Borders of Europe", directed by Dr. Alejandro del Valle Gálvez. Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module "Identity and European Values in the External Borders: Russia and the EU neighbourhood. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean (EUBALMED)" (2022-2025). Member of the Research Group "Centro de Estudios Internacionales y Europeos del Área del Estrecho" -SEJ 572-, of the Andalusian Research Plan, directed by Dr. Alejandro del Valle Gálvez. Graduate in Law and two Master's Degrees: Master's Degree in Law (University of Cadiz) and Master's Degree in International and European Studies (University of Granada). Lecturer in the Official Bilingual Master's Degree in International Relations and Migration at the University of Cadiz, in subjects related to Public International Law and European Union Law, Migration and Borders, Asylum and Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Recent publications address the externalisation of EU border controls and the management of migration and asylum through cooperation with third states.
  14. Andreas Karagiorgos, HEAD OF BORDERS PROTECTION DIVISION / HELLENIC POLICE HEADQUARTERS HELLENIC POLICE Responsible for Monitoring the National Frontex Point of Contact, Monitoring the utilization of EU Funds related to border management, Monitoring the smooth and effective information exchange (strategic and tactic) with stakeholders, Monitoring the coordination of all border services (BCPs and BCUs) of the Hellenic Police on border management activities. Monitoring and supporting the implementation of Operational Activitional in the frame of the cooperation with EUROPOL, under the EMPACT activities package. Monitoring and supporting the implementation of Joint Operations of Frontex in Greece, as well as any other Frontex activity (trainings, field visits, etc. Monitoring and supporting to the Schengen Evaluation Mechanism (European Commission) and the
    Vulnerability Assessment Procedure (Frontex) for Greece. He ensures the implementation of EU projects related to border management and fundamental rights. He supports the decision making process on measures to be taken at the borders. He is Member of EBCGA (FRONTEX) Management Board
  15. Dr Grigorios Tsioukas,Deputy Fundamental Rights Officer, Frontex