Foteini Asderaki

Dr Foteini Asderaki is a Professor at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus. Since 2019 she has been Chair of the Doctoral School of the European Security and Defence College, Brussels. She was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Policies for Education, Training, Research and Innovation by the European Commission in 2016. She is Director of the Laboratory of Educational Policy, Research, Development and Interuniversity Cooperation (ERDIC) and of the Bologna Resource Center, and co-director of the joint Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (East-Med Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – EXCELEM). She is the academic coordinator of the European Parliament Ambassador School programme, the Teachers4Europe network and many other European programmes. She is a member of international scientific associations and has participated in international academic conferences (ISA, CES, ESA, ECPR, UACES). She has represented Greece and Europe as Vice-President of the Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education and has represented Greece at ministerial conferences and in bilateral and European working groups. She holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration, a Postgraduate Diploma specialising in European and International Studies and a PhD with distinction from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “The Formation of an International Regime: The European Higher Education Area”, was awarded by the Hellenic University Association for European Studies the National Bank of Greece Honorary Scholarship in memory of Theodoros Karatzas for the best doctoral thesis in European Studies for the period 2004-2008, while she has twice received a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation for her performance. In addition, she has completed four years of studies in pedagogical sciences.