Prof. Gian Luca Gardini

Gian Luca Gardini is full professor of History of International Relations (with focus on Latin America) at the University of Udine, Italy. He is also Jean Monnet Chair ad personam on EU-Latin America relations (2024-27). He was Carlos Saavedra Lamas Visiting Professor of International Relations at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany (2021-2023). From 2014 to 2021, he was Chair of International Business and Society Relations with focus on Latin America at the School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.

Professor Gardini holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

His main research interests cover the international relations of Latin America, foreign policy analysis, comparative regional integration, international organisation, and issues of international power, order and institutions. Among his recent books are The Redefinition of the EU Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (Peter Lang, 2023 – Claudia Castañeda award for the best book 2020-23 from the Chilean Political Science Association), External Powers in Latin America (Routledge, 2021), and The World Before and After COVID-19 (EIIS, 2020).

He also acted as a practitioner of international and EU affairs. He was project manager for several EU consulting firms, Representative to the EU of the Italian Confederation of Industry, and International Trade Advisor to EUROCHAMBRES, the European Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. In 2012, he was seconded officer to the Chilean Foreign Ministry working in the team that organised the first EU-CELAC Summit.

THE CHAIR HOLDER

Prof. Elisabetta Bergamini

Full Professor of EU Law. Expertise: EU Law, EU private international law, consumers’ rights, EU external relations and the principle of conditionality: HR protection and support for democracy.

Dr Claudia Candelmo

Researcher in International Law. Expertise: the international regime on State responsibility, the role of the EU in the international legal order, international humanitarian law, terrorism, EU sanctions.

Prof. Claudio Cressati

Associate Professor of History of Political Thought. Expertise: History of European political thought, History of European integration, and History of liberal thought.

Dr Francesco Deana

Researcher of European Law. Expertise: EU Law, Human Rights Law, personal and family statuses in EU Law, EU’s Eastern enlargement and geopolitical implications, with a focus on Russia.

Prof. Laura Montanari

Full Professor of Comparative Public Law. Expertise: EU Enlargement, in particular common values, conditionality, and cooperation policy; EU and the Balkans.

Prof. Tommaso Piffer

Associate Professor of Contemporary History. Expertise: History of Europe in the Post-War Period, and Twentieth-Century European History.

Prof. Andrea Zannini

Full Professor of Modern History. Expertise: European History from Neolithic to today and relationship between wider European dynamics and local dynamics and institutions.

Team

EU2LAC KEY STAFF MEMBERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE

Prof. Guglielmo Cevolin

Adjoint Professor of Law and professional lawyer. Expertise: Media and Information Law, Communication Law.

Prof. Gabriele De Anna

Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Expertise: Applied ethics and the moral impact of scientific advance and technology.

Dr Gian Luca Volpi

Senior Researcher in Eastern European History. Expertise: The Eastern European question: the EU, Russia and NATO.

EU2LAC ASSOCIATED STAFF MEMBERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE

Prof. Ana Bojinovic Fenko

University of Ljubljana, is an expert in foreign policy of small states and regionalism. Her research focus is on the EU external action and the EU in the Mediterranean area.

Prof. Giovanni Finizio

University of Turin, Italy and Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Argentina, is an expert in international organization and African regionalism.

Prof. Lidija Kos-Stanisic

University of Zagreb, is an expert in regional comparative studies and the international relations of Latin America. She is the most prominent Latin-Americanist in Croatia.

Prof. Jure Pozgan

University of Ljubljana, is an expert in theories of European integration and the EU external action. His research focus is on the EU in the Western Balkans and culture as a foreign policy instrument.

Prof. Millán Requena Casanova

JM Chair in EU migration policy at the University of Alicante, researches on EU migration policies, the Global Compact, and migration policies in Latin America.

Prof. Petra Roter

University of Ljubljana, is an expert in Minority Rights and international conflict management. She is also an advisor to the Council of Europe and OSCE.

EU2LAC ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL EXPERTS IN PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

EFM

Ente Friuli nel Mondo (EFM) is a private non-profit association founded in Udine in 1953 and recognised as being of regional interest by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The organisation independently promotes links with Friulians living in Italy and around the world and operates both through its own initiatives and with the help of its member associations, generally known as Fogolâr Furlan or Famee Furlane. EFM has approximately 150 active associations and over 20,000 members across the world.

IL GORIZIANO

Il Goriziano was founded in 2020 and is a free online daily news service for the historical Gorizia area, in the Friuli Venezia Region in the North-East of Italy. Since its foundation, it has had a cross-border outlook with daily news from Nova Gorica and neighbouring municipalities in Slovenia. An independent voice, it is a very young editorial office that trains young journalists.

ROTARY

Rotary is a worldwide network of professionals and entrepreneurs that promotes the ideal of service, encouraging members to use their skills to tackle problems in local and global communities, inspired by high ethical principles.

Partners

EU2LAC ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL PARTNERS & ORGANISATIONS

TELEFRIULI

Telefriuli is the leading local TV channel in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and is a point of reference for the entire Friuli community. Its first broadcast dates back to 1978. After the first images in black and white, colour transmissions began in the same year, when this was still experimental and before Rai, the Italian national television. A pioneering spirit is the trademark of the channel, which was the first local private television station in Italy to broadcast in high definition.