Equipe
Giorgio Grimaldi
is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at Link Campus University. PhD in History of federalism and European unity (University of Pavia), he was a researcher at the Center for Studies on Federalism of Moncalieri (Turin) and research fellow at the University of Turin, the Sant’Anna High School of Pisa and the University of Genoa. He was a contract professor of History of international relations at the University of Valle d’Aosta (2006-2016) and, subsequently, at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Genoa, of some supplementary courses (History of international environmental policy and European Union; History of ecological thought; Green parties in Europe: origins, developments and impact in contemporary society) and of the annual history and institutions of the countries of the Middle East. Between 2013 and 2015 he was project manager of the European education projects aimed at the EU@School “Hopeurope” and EU@School “Hopeurope 2” high schools at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Genoa. Since 2018 he has been a contract professor of the Economic-Political Geography course of the European Union at the eCampus University. He has been qualified as associate professor (sector SPS/06 – History of international relations) since 2014. He has collaborated with CesUE (Centre for studies, training, communication and planning on the European Union and global governance), a spin-off of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, of which he is a member of the Scientific Committee. Author of various publications – including the monographs Federalism, political ecology and green parties (Milan, Giuffré, 2005) and The Italian Greens between national politics and European projection (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020) – he has participated as a speaker at various conferences scientific.
Filippo Maria Giordano
is associate professor of Contemporary History at the Link Campus University of Rome, where he teaches Contemporary History, History of Contemporary Culture and Contemporary History and Media History. At the same University, he holds a “Jean Monnet” Chair on European Cinema and History (Ciak-EU! – EU-rope through films: History, Identity, and Policies). He has taught History of European integration at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna (Campus of Forlì) and History of International Relations at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, where he was also of a “Jean Monnet” module on the religious factor in European integration (R4EU). For years he has collaborated with the Centro Studi sul Federalismo in Turin, he is a member of TO-EUrope. European Studies Center of the University of Turin and La.S.P.I. – Laboratory of History, Politics, Institutions of the DiGSPES Department of the University of Eastern Piedmont. He is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal De Europa – European and Global Studies Journal and editor of the “research” section of the scientific journal Labsus – Laboratory for subsidiarity. He is the author of volumes and essays on the history of the European integration process, on European identity, on Euroscepticism and on the pro-European and federalist movements.
Tommaso Visone
is Associate Professor of History of Political Doctrines (SPS/02) at the Link University, teaches Political Thought for Colonization and Decolonization (SPS/02) at the Sapienza University of Rome and is a research associate at the Institute for Research on Population and the Social Policies of the CNR. PhD in Political Science, he was a research fellow for four years in the History of Political Doctrines at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and for two years in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Roma Tre. He has also conducted research activities at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, CesUE (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa), A.R.E.L.A. and the Center for Studies on Federalism in Turin. His research interests mainly concern the history of the idea of Europe in the twentieth century, the thought of Albert Camus, the history of federalist thought, decolonial thought and the history of democracy. He has taken part in research projects and teaching activities at the Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, the University of Cyprus, the University of Cambridge, the University of Hong Kong, Universitatea din Bucuresti and the Federico II University of Naples. In 2019 he was Visiting Professor at the Université El Manar in Tunis. He directs the Social and Political Theory and Research series at the Altravista publishing house in Pavia and was director of the United States of Europe magazine for the Fondazione Critica Liberale. He is a member of the editorial board of Euractiv.it.
Federico Castiglioni
works as a researcher in the “EU, politics and institutions” program of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). In 2019 he obtained his PhD in European Studies at the Roma Tre University, presenting a reconstruction of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq from the point of view of the European Union. From 2019 to 2020 he worked at the European Parliament as a policy advisor in the Defense Commission (SEDE), following the initial negotiations of the European Defense Fund. From 2020 to 2022 he was employed by the consulting firm Zanasi&Partners, specialized in European security and defense projects. In the academic year 2021-2022 he was a contract professor of “European Governance” at the Orientale University of Naples and a Jean Monnet professor at the Link Campus University of Rome. He is part of the editorial board of International Spectator and collaborates with various popular magazines (Ants, Difesa online, Eurocomunicazione) mainly dealing with European politics.
Cristina Natili
she is a sociologist and expert on migration and human rights. He currently works as a project officer of Jean Monnet projects at Link Campus University.
He worked for more than three years in the field of reception and integration of refugees and asylum seekers, collaborating with the “CIR- Italian Council for Refugees” and with the “CEIS- Don Mario Picchi”.
Member of the European Federalist Movement, she has always dealt with issues related to the reception and functioning of the European Union.
Bleona Shkullaku
Bleona Shkullaku has been educated in the fields od cultural mediation, foreign languages,international cooperation and governance at the Univerity of Padua and at Sapienza, University of Rome. She covers positions of collaboration and docency under the Chair of Political Thought for Colonization and Decolonization at Sapienza, University of Rome and the Chairs of European Integration Processes and Contemporary History, both at Link Campus University. She is in charge of coordinating and participating as Project Officer in several Jean Monnet projects based at Link Campus University.
Her most recent studies cover the European Integration Dynamics in the Western Balkans. She previously worked on South Sudan, especially from the standpoint of its economic history and institutional change. Her main interests include programming, investment, development frameworks in the countries of the ‘New Europe’ (e.g. Western Balkans)