On February 18, ten new members were officially welcomed to the EDP Network in a virtual online conference. More than doubling its strength in members to a total of 18 participating scholars from 16 European research institutions, the network can from now on draw on a much broader basis of expertise on various aspects of democracy promotion and enlarged regional expert knowledge.

Besides getting to know one another, the participants discussed the next steps of accessing new funding, as well as ideas for joint research and knowledge transfer projects in the future.

We are thrilled to welcome:

Julia Bader, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam
Sarah von Billerbeck, Associate Professor at the University of Reading
Inken von Borzyskowski, Assistant Professor at the University College London
Dorothea Gädeke, Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University
Felix Haass, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo
Leonie Holthaus, Research Associate at the TU Darmstadt
Seraphine Maerz, Assistant Professor at the University of Goethenburg & V-Dem Institute
Benjamin Schütze, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Freiburg & Research Associate at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institut (ABI)
Brigitte Weiffen, Senior Lecturer at the Open University (OU) Great Britain
Amélie Wurl, Doctoral Fellow at the Free University (FU) Berlin (Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies & SCRIPTS)