Athina Fatsea

Athina Fatsea is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) of the Ionian University (IU). She works as Research Assistant to the Director General of ELIAMEP, as well as Project Manager of the Greek version of the Transatlantic Periscope (Bertelsmann Foundation). She serves as a Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage (IU), the Laboratory for Political and Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas (NKUA), the Institute of International Economic Relations (IDOS/IIER) and the Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses (GeoLab).

She has worked on translation projects for the institutions of the European Union and other international organizations and think tanks. She holds an MA in International and European Governance and Politics from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, NKUA. She has graduated with a first class honors degree as class valedictorian from DFLTI (IU). She has participated as a Researcher in the Program “Greece 2021: Bicentennial of the Liberal Revolution” of the Greece 2021 Committee and NKUA. She was also a member of the jury committee for the “Choix Goncourt de la Grèce 2020” and an intern at the Institute of International Relations (IDIS), the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, the Hellenic Mediation and Arbitration Center, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic.

She has received scholarships and awards from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), the Ionian University Rectorate (IU), Maria Stai Foundation (NKUA), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Greece and Cyprus, and A.G. Leventis Foundation. She is a Founding Member and Co-Coordinator of the EU Youth Hub (ELIAMEP), a Board Member of the Association for International and European Affairs (ODETH), and serves on the European Heritage Label Bureau Youth Advisory Board and the Mediterranean Youth Council. She is also a Member of Europa Nostra, ESACH, the Balkan Museum Network, the Europeana Network Association, and the Society of Kytherian Studies. She has participated in conferences in Europe and Africa, and has contributed with publications to collective volumes, scientific journals and conference proceedings. She speaks Greek, English and French.