Papageorgiou Ioannis

Associate Professor

School of Political Sciences

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Jean Monnet Chairholder

Ioannis Papageorgiou studied law at the University of Athens. He holds postgraduate degrees in comparative politics from Paris I University and in developmental cooperation from The Free University of Brussels, from which he also received his PhD in the field of regional integration. He has worked at the University of the Aegean and has been teaching at the Aristotle University since 2004. His subject area is “International Relations: International and European Politics” and he teaches courses related to European policy and institutions, comparative politics and subjects of international relations. His research deals with issues of European political integration, refugee policy and international humanitarian and refugee law. He is a lawyer, and served as Director of the Greek Refugee Service, and in 2012 he was chairman of the working group (more…)

Andreou George

Assistant Professor

School of Political Sciences

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

George Andreou studied political science and international relations at the University of Athens and at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and received his PhD in political science and public administration from the University of Athens (2001). He has worked as adjunct lecturer at the School of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of the Peloponnese. He has also taught at the Postgraduate Programme ‘European and International Studies’ of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens and at the National School of Public Administration as well as at the School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University (more…).

Gaitenidis Nikolaos

Lecturer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Nikolaos Gaitenidis is a lecturer under contract at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  He has completed his PhD studies in the department of International and European Studies (University of Macedonia). He holds a BA in International and European, Economic and Political Studies, and an MA in International and EU Law.  He is a research associate at the Centre of International and European Economic Law, responsible for the design and implementation of several research and institution building projects.  He has also been involved in several Jean Monnet Projects. His research interests and publications focus on the protection of human rights in Europe, social and cultural rights, equality policies and the fight against discrimination, and the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities. He has published in collective volumes and Journals and he has participated in numerous academic conferences, roundtables and events (more…).

Dr. Bouroutis Andreas

Dr. Andreas Bouroutis is an economist and political scientist (degree Economics from the National University of Athens, MA in Political Analysis from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). His PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki dealt with the different communities of Thessaloniki in the 19th and 20 century and their relationship with the European school institutions in the city.

He has taught in the Department of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, (Modern Diplomacy and Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Political Systems in the Balkans), where he also gives the lecture on migration and refugee issues for the Erasmus course “Greece Today”. Currently he is the Scientific Program Leader of the research program “Post-war transformation of Thessaloniki and the fate of the Jewish assets” and a Research Fellow of the program “Business in a transforming city. Entrepreneurship and social process in Thessaloniki (1919-1939)” (more…).