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dr hab. Agnieszka Dudzińska
Project Manager. Sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw. Research interests: sociology of law, legislative process, political opposition, public policies, and social research methodology. Collaborates with governmental and local government institutions.
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dr hab. Ryszard Balicki, prof. UWr
Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at the University of Wrocław. A graduate of law at the University of Wrocław. Member of the Polish Association of Constitutional Law, the Polish Association of European Law, the IUS Social Contract Incubator Association, the National Electoral Commission, and the Committee on Legal Sciences. Awarded the Silver Cross of Merit and the Medal of the National Education Commission. Research interests include human rights and freedoms, executive power in states, and the constitutional aspects of European integration.
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dr hab. Jarosław Flis, prof. UJ
Professor at the Jagiellonian University in the Department of Mediatization Research. His research interests include: political behavior, electoral systems, public communication, social conflicts and local government. Three projects he led received NCN grants: "Studying the scale of the gerrymandering phenomenon in Polish elections to municipal councils in 2014", "Paths of success, paths of retreat - patterns of electoral career and elite circulation in the Polish multi-level system of electoral competition" and "Ordinance for Poland. Methods of forecasting the political consequences of introducing a mixed electoral system". The publication "Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method" (1.9), which he co-authored and which appeared in the renowned journal "Public Choice", received the "Duncan Black Prize" for the best text in this periodical in 2020. He was an expert of the Sejm's extraordinary commission preparing the electoral code adopted in 2011. His project of the "Proportional-Local Ordinance" was adopted
as the official proposal of the Parliamentary Team for Changing the Electoral Ordinance to the Mixed Ordinance in 2023.
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prof. dr hab. Monika Florczak-Wątor
Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at Jagiellonian University. Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies at Jagiellonian University, and Director of the Doctoral Interdisciplinary Program Society of the Future at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University. A graduate of law and political science, as well as postgraduate studies for translators in English and Czech. Co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and the Democracy in Practice Association. Research interests include comparative law, constitutional axiology, constitutional theory and interpretation, constitutional judiciary, and human rights protection.
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dr hab. Kaja Gadowska, prof. UJ
Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University. A graduate of sociology at Jagiellonian University and the Society and Politics program at Central European University and Lancaster University. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Stanisław Ossowski Prize and the Klemens Szaniawski Competition Award. Currently a president of European Sociological Association for the term 2024–2026 and a member of the Main Board of the Polish Sociological Association. Her research interests include the public sphere, Poland’s post-1989 transformation process, democracy, political-economic-administrative relations in post-communist countries, sociology of law, and the functioning of the coal mining industry.
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dr Ihor Hurak
Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science, and International Relations at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk. Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information and the Visegrad Fund. Member of the Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration (APREI). Research interests include the Ukrainian question in the foreign policy of Russia, the EU, the USA, and Poland, as well as international security and integration processes in Eastern Europe.
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prof. dr hab. Antoni Kamiński
Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. A graduate of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Member of the National Development Council under the President of Poland. Co-founder of the first Polish branch of Transparency International. His research interests include political and economic institutions, international security, and strategic analysis.
dr Nataliya Kononenko
Leading researcher at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. Lecturer at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and the Kyiv Aviation University. Graduate of the Faculty of History of the Kyiv National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Dragomanov. Member of the Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences (APSU).
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dr hab. Tetyana Lyashenko
Works at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. Member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
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dr Michał Mistygacz
Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. Prosecutor of the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, member of the Codification Commission of the Judiciary and Prosecutor's Office. His research interests include: legal protection bodies, the constitutional and procedural position of the prosecutor's office, and the legislative process.
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prof. dr hab. Svitlana Sytnyk
Works at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. A graduate of the Faculty of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her research interests include political analysis, European integration, public policy, governmental institutional capacity, and the institutional architecture of post-war reconstruction.
prof. dr hab. Galyna Zelenko
Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. A graduate of the Faculty of History at Drahomanov National Pedagogical University in Kyiv. Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and Aspen Ukraine. Correspondent at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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Marta Bogacka
Website Administrator.
A student in the Bachelor’s program at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Alina Titovska
Project Manager’s Assistant.
A student of European Studies - European Integration at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. A law student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Eliza Trofanovych
Assistant Project Manager.
Student of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. Member of the Young Diplomats Forum. Public Relations Specialist at Model European Union Berlin 2025.