EUNOIA / Team

Project Team

An interdisciplinary team connecting EU studies, international relations, political economy, economic security, social inclusion and multilingual governance.

Yannis Stivachtis

Coordinator · Trainer

Professor of Government & International Affairs at the School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA) of Virginia Tech. He holds Virginia Tech’s Jean Monnet Chair and directs the Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies (CEUTS). He also coordinates the Graduate Certificate in Europe & Transatlantic Relations and serves as Deputy Director of the Research Institute for European & American Studies (RIEAS). His scholarship and teaching span European integration, international relations and transatlantic affairs.

Dimitris Tsarouhas

Trainer

Scholar of European politics, political economy and public policy with more than twenty years of university teaching, policy research and European policy engagement. He is Affiliate Faculty in Political Science at Virginia Tech and affiliated with CEUTS. His work covers European integration, EU economic governance and the Eurozone, the European social model, enlargement and conditionality, migration, EU external relations and EU–Turkey relations. He previously held a Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics.

Volodymyr Tokar

Trainer

Ukrainian Doctor of Economic Sciences (Doctor Habilitated) and Professor at the Department of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity of the State University of Trade and Economics (SUTE), Kyiv. His project experience includes multiple Jean Monnet and Erasmus+ initiatives in EU economic security, gender equality, migration policy, economic resilience and transatlantic graduate education. He is founder and organizer of the international SECS conference.

Natalia Teslenko

Trainer

Candidate of Philological Sciences (PhD-equivalent), Associate Professor at the Department of Modern European Languages, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International Trade and Law at SUTE, Kyiv. She is an expert of Ukraine’s National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education and has project experience in Jean Monnet teaching, migration policy, inclusive university climate, EU economic security and transatlantic graduate education.