Zdzisław Mach is a professor of sociology, social anthropology and European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies. Founder of the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and one of the main authors of the European Studies curriculum in Poland. He also holds the UNESCO Chair for Education about the Holocaust. His research interests cover issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the development of European citizenship, migration, cultural construction of identities, collective memory and cultural heritage as well as the development of the idea of Europe. Professor Mach has been leading teams of researchers in the Polish National Science Centre and EU supported projects, including 6th Framework  Programme and a Horizon 2020.

Publications:

Symbols, Conflict and Identity. Essays in Political Anthropology. Albany: State University of New York Press 1993,

Between old Fears and New Challenges. The Polish Debate on Europe [in:] K. Nicolaidis, and J. Lacroix (eds.), European Stories. How National Intellectuals Debate Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010: 221-240 (with M. Góra),

 “Situating the demos of a European democracy” [w:] E.O.Eriksen and J.E.Fossum (eds.), Rethinking Democracy and the European Union, London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 159-178. (with M.Gora and H-J. Trenz),

Democtarization and the Struggle for the Recognition of Memory and Heritage in the European Frame of Reference, in: K. Kowalski i B. Tornquist-Plewa (red.) The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden. Kraków, Jagiellonian University Press, 2016: 265-271

Local Community, Power and European Integration (ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang 2017.

Natasza Styczyńska holds a PhD in Political Science from the Jagiellonian University and since 2007 she is teaching at Institute of European Studies. Her doctoral thesis tackled the issues of European discourse of Polish political parties and Euroscepticism. Her academic interests include transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, party politics, nationalism, populism and euroscepticism in the CEE region and the Balkans, as well as identity issues on the borderlands and Austro-Hungarian heritage in Central and Southern Europe.

She was involved in teaching and organising numerous workshops (some in cooperation with UACES, Europaeum or Coimbra Group) and summer schools (financed by LLP Erasmus Programme, CEEPUS and Visegrad Fund). Dr Styczynska has a degree from a Pedagogical  University, where she studied how to teach politics to school and university students. She has experience in conducting traditional form of teaching such as lectures and seminars but also with the ones that involve students to work in a groups (Oxford debate, role playing, problem based learning). So far she has been a visiting professor at:

University of Vienna (Austria), Deusto University w Bilbao (Spain), Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (Hungary), Kliment Ochridski University w Sofii (Bulgaria), University of Pecs (Hungary), Matej Bel University (Slovakia), University of Montenegro, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku and UNAM in Mexico City. Dr Styczyńska is also researcher in the project entitled "Democratic control and legitimisation in European Foreign Policy. The case study of EU Enlargement Policy and European Neighbourhood Policy" that is funded by the National Research Centre, Poland and in EUROMEC European Identity, Culture, Exchanges and Multilingualism (Jean Monnet Erasmus+).

Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University

is a PhD candidate (PhD defence scheduled for May 2018) and a young researcher working on EU Foreign and Security policies, currently involved in a research project on contestation and legitimisation of the EU Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy. His doctoral research focuses on the contestation of EU and national security policies in the regions, where a violent conflicts break out. So far he has been a visiting scholar in Zagreb University and Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica. He has also designed curricula for two international summer schools on peace and security in Europe organised in Kraków and financed by the Polish Ministry of Defence.