Lecturers of the project

Mykhailo Stanchev - Dr., Professor, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the historical faculty of the Kharkov University. For a long time worked in Sevastopol, Kharkov and Kiev universities (1975 – 1991). He trained at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (1989). He worked in the Kharkov City Council (1991 – 1997), supervised an international connections, participated in the implementation of urban projects with the EBRD, World Bank, the European program of twin cities. From 1997 to 2001 – Advisor of the MFA of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Embassy in Bulgaria. In 2001 – 2003 was Head of the Department of International and Foreign Economic Relations and European Integration of Kharkiv Regional Administration. One of initiators of creation of the Euroregion "Slobozhanshchyna" and cross-border cooperation program. Member of the Government Commission on International Cooperation and European Integration of Ukraine. The author of works on the problems of European integration of Ukraine.

Sergey Strashnyuk. In 1980 he graduated from the historical faculty of Kharkiv State University (now – V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University). After defending the dissertation since 1986 he has been working as an Associate professor of modern and cotemporary history department, since September 2005 – as a director of the M. Drinov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies and chief editor of "Drinovsky collections", a yearbook of the Historians Commission of Ukraine – Bulgaria (until 2016 it was published 8 volumes). Over the years, he trained in Austria, Bulgaria, Russia. At the beginning of 2016 has passed an extension courses and got a certificate for work in the system of distance learning system of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He teaches in number of core courses ("History of Western Europe and North America countries after WWII», "The history of international relations"). Author of more than 100 publications, including several books and manuals on the history of Central and South-Eastern Europe. Scientific interests – history of Slavistics and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Dmytro Chenchyk. In 2002 he graduated from the historical faculty of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. At the same time he entered the graduate school at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the historical faculty, graduated in 2006. In 2007 he defended his dissertation on the topic: "The idea of a united Europe and the search for ways of its implementation in 1945 – 1952" and got a degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.Since 2007 he has been working in M. Drinov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies which is one of the co-organizers of the scientific and publishing activities.In 2009, he was on the scientific training in Bulgaria (Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) working on the topic "Bulgaria in the European integration process." Since 2012 he holds the position of Associate Professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History. He teaches courses on "History of Western Europe and North America (1918 – 1945)"; "Contemporary integration processes in the world"; "International cultural relations of modern and contemporary periods." In 2013, he passed the extension courses and got a certificate for work in the system of distance learning.Scientific interests – the history of the European idea and the integration processes in Europe.

Petko Hristovis an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Over the past few years, his main scholarly interests involve studying labour migrations; the construction of social networks among trans-border migrants; the construction of identity with the help of culture and traditional religiousness.Hehaspublishedover100 articlesinanumberof international journals and collections in renowned scholarly series.Petko Hristovis author of the book “Community and Celebrations. The Sluzba, Slava, Sabor and Kourban in South Slavic Villages in the First Half of 20 Century” (Sofia: Ethnographic Institute with Museum, 2004. He is editor of the collections “Migration and Identity: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans” (Sofia: Paradigma, 2012), and co-editor of the books:and “LabourMigrationsintheBalkans”, München-Berlin: VerlagOttoSagner, 2012 (co-authorship withBiljanaSikimić andBiljanaGolubović).