Despoina Anagnostopoulou is an Associate Professor in EU Policies and Institutions at the University of Macedonia, Greece.  Since 2014 she has served as the Director of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity, a member of the UNITWIN network on Interreligious Dialogue. She has been the Jean Monnet Chairholder on New Dimensions on EU Legal Studies (2012-2015), the Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on “Research on Crucial Issues of European Integration” and the Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Project on Intercultural Dialogue, EU Values and Diversity (University of Macedonia).  In the fall of 2021, she was elected to be a member of the Board at the European Law Institute Council, in Vienna, Austria. She studied law (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and EU Law (Libre Universite de Bruxelles-ULB) and Democritus University of Thrace, Greece(PhD in EU Law).  She was awarded undergraduate and postgraduate state scholarships, a Jean Monnet 3-month scholarship (European University Institute, Florence), a distinction for her contribution in national matters (Democritus University of Thrace) and a distinction for excellent teaching at the Open University Cyprus (2021).  She has been stagiaire at the EU Commission Legal Service (also traveled to Japan), and a researcher at the Centre of International and European Economic Law (Thessaloniki), for more than 10 years. She taught EU Law: a) at the Law School of Capital University, Ohio, US (one course), b) in summer courses that had been organised by the same US University in Greece, and c) at the National School of Judges (1999-2002) and d) at the Open University of Cyprus since 2016. She also taught Racism and Xenophobia at the National School of Judges, Greece (2016-2021). Her current research focuses on EU citizenship, human rights and non-discrimination, EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and on digital economy and EU Single Market.

Roxani Frangou obtained her Master’s Degree in Public Law at the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg and in 2010 she completed her PhD studies in Public Law at the University of Strasbourg (PhD thesis: Euthanasia and the right to refuse medical treatment in respect to the evolution of European comparative law (France, Greece, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and United Kingdom)). In 2015, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (research field: Assisted reproduction and protection of the in vitro embryo). She has worked at the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Strasbourg contributing to the teaching of Public Law, Constitutional Law and Political Institutions in France and the Comparative Law (2009-2012), while from 2011 to 2014 she taught Applied Ethics. References and foundation: References in bioethics at the European Center for the Study and Teaching of Ethics (CEERE) of the University of Strasbourg. Currently, she is a legal advisor with the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), she is completing a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (State Scholarships Foundation, IKY) on the National Human Rights Institutions’ (NHRIs) contribution to the promotion of human rights and she teaches law at the Hellenic Open University, as well as at the Open University of Cyprus. She is author of several papers, studies and jurisprudence notes published in Greek, English and French peer-reviewed journals.

Nikos Gaitenidis is a graduate of the Department of International and European, Political and Economic Studies of the University of Macedonia. He completed postgraduate studies in European Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his doctorate degree in 2015 from the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia. He was an associate of the Centre of International and European Economic Law, responsible for the implementation of several research and institution building programs. He has also provided scientific services for the Greek Ministry of Justice and the Labor Institute of GSEE. He has managed successfully several European funded projects (Erasmus+, JUSTICE, Civil Justice, Europeaid, Twinning etc.), including several Jean Monnet Projects. He had taught courses on human rights and EU studies at the University of Macedonia, Panteion University, the Democretus University and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests and publications focus on the protection of human rights in Europe, social and cultural rights, equality and anti-discrimination policies, and the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.