Foteini Asderaki
Associate Professor
Foteini Asderaki is an Associate Professor of European Integration Theory and European Educational Policy at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus. She is the elected Chair of the European Security and Defence College Doctoral School, European External Action Service for a two-year tenure (2019-21). She holds a Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Policies in Education, Training, Research and Innovation issued by the European Commission in 2016. She is the Director of the Laboratory of Education Policy, Research, Development and Interuniversity Cooperation (ERDIC); she is also the director of the Bologna Resource Center and the co-director of the Regional Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (East-Med Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence-EXCELEM). She is a member of scientific associations and she has participated in international conferences (ISA, CES, ESA, ECPR, UACES). She had been a Board member of the Unesco’s International Bureau of Education, Geneva. She had been an Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs on European and issues, intercultural and inclusion of migrants affairs (2015); and she worked at the same Ministry during 2002-09. She participated in several ministerial conferences and in bilateral and European working groups. She holds a PhD with distinction in Political Sciences issued by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Law, Economic and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her Thesis, entitled as “The Formation of an International Regime: The European Higher Education Area” was awarded by the Hellenic University Association for European Studies the Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Greece in memorial of Theodoros Karatzas for the best dissertation (2004-8). She has also been awarded twice a scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation. In addition she followed four years of pedagogical studies. She has published books and articles on European integration issues.
