is archaeologist at the Museum Complex of Arad, Romania. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and received his Ph.D. from the “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu in 2011. His main expertise is medieval archaeology, especially the networks of medieval monasteries and fortresses in the 11th and 14th centuries. Besides this preoccupation, his activity includes other ones like Avar period archaeology, Ottoman archaeology, etc. He has led many archaeological excavations in Crișana, the Transylvanian Basin, and Banat (Romania). His recent publications: Tezaurul de monede dacice de la Feniș (jud. Arad). Studiul Ștanțelor aplicat monedelor de tip Mit Bartkranzavers / Toc-Chereluș / The Dacian Coin Hoard from Feniș (Arad County) The study of dies applied to Mit Bartkranzavers / Toc-Chereluș type coins. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega, 2021 (in collaboration with Corina Toma); Tezaurul monetar de la Grosii Noi (secolele XV-XVII) / The Coin Hoard of Grosii Noi (15th - 17th centuries) (in collaboration with Corina Toma and Cristiana Tătaru). Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega, 2016. ORCID no: 0000-0002-5601-807X,
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is senior researcher at the Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History, Bucharest, Romania. He received the PhD in 1997 at the University of Bucharest, and a Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship at Ohio State University (2002-2003). Besides military history, his expertise includes late ancient and medieval history and archaeology of Romania and South-Eastern Europe. His recent publications are: Expansiunea maghiară în Transilvania, Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2019; Organizarea militară bizantină la Dunăre în secolele X-XII. Ediţia a III-a, Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2018; Asăneştii. Istoria politico-militară a statului dinastiei Asan (1185-1280), Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2014; Byzantine Military Organization on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2013; Împăratul Galerius, Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2012; Istoria militară a Daciei post-romane, 275-614, Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2011.
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is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow in the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin. He is the author of the book Russia and International Society: Conceptual Models and Policy Strategies (Lambert Publishers, 2011) and numerous articles in journals including International Spectator, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Cooperation and Conflict. He has lectured in the Universities of Nizhny Novgorod and Syktyvkar (Russia), Malmo (Sweden), Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, and other institutions.
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is senior researcher at the Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania. ORCID no: 0000-0003-1120-3180
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(Ph.D., University of Warwick) is a lecturer at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Greece. She was a Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.; Director of Studies and Research at the International Center for Black Sea Studies, Athens; and Secretary of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Istanbul. She is the author of The dynamics of Black Sea subregionalism (2012).
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is an Associate Professor in the Information and Communication Technologies Department at the Polytechnic University of Tomar (IPT), Portugal. He is a pro-vice-chancellor for Internationalisation and Pedagogical Innovation, Director of the Laboratory of Pedagogical Innovation and Distance Learning (LIED) and responsible for the Research and Innovation Support Office (GAII). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Management, a Master’s degree in Educational Multimedia Communication, a postgraduate diploma in e-learning Techniques and Contexts, and a PhD in Educational Sciences specialising in Educational Technology. He is an affiliated researcher at TECHN&ART (IPT) and a collaborating researcher at the Educational Technology Laboratory (University of Coimbra), the Centre for Administration and Public Policy (University of Lisbon) and the Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations and Cultural Heritage (Valahia University of Târgoviste). He is a member of the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society (APDSI), Metared Portugal, Europeana Network Association, NAU - Online Teaching and Training for Large Audiences and others. He has authored numerous national and international publications and has organised various scientific and technical events.
E-mail: [email protected].
ORCID no. 0000-0002-1503-0363

is currently finishing a Master’s in World Heritage Studies in BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Originally from Spain, she completed her Bachelor’s in Archaeology at Complutense University in Madrid in 2017 but has also a background in Cultural Anthropology. During her last year of her Bachelor’s, she was granted with an ERASMUS scholarship to attend the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where she focused her studies in material culture, cinema and communication. She has followed the path of heritage and community engagement not only in the university but also with the undertaking of several internships, not only in her home country but also in France, Mexico and Cuba. During the summer of 2018, she was granted with a DAAD scholarship to attend Helwan University in Cairo, helping her on specialization on heritage and conflict, which she hopes can help her resolve community conflicts in the future. In 2019, she was selected to participate on the US/ICOMOS IEP in San Antonio, Texas and also completed an exchange semester in Tunis with a focus on cultural and sustainable tourism.
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(PhD,) is associate professor of the Early Iron Age at the University of Oslo, Museum of Cultural History, Department of Archaeology since 1999. Before that he was executive officer (archaeologist) at the Swedish National Board of Antiquities (Riksantikvarieämbetet) in Lund (1996-1999) and before that he held scholarships at the University of Copenhagen (1992-1996) and the National Museum of Denmark (1990-1992). Jes Martens finished his MA at the University of Aarhus in 1990, including a year at the University of Warsaw (1982-1983). The PhD was obtained at the University of Copenhagen in 1998. Jes Martens has held several scholarships such as the Carlsberg foundation, Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst, NorFa, the Danish Research Council of the Humanities and Queen Margrethe II foundation. Jes Martens has taught archaeology at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Oslo and has delivered guest lectures at a number of universities in Northern Europe. Jes Martens has functioned as censor at the Universities of Copenhagen, Oslo and Tromsø. The main focus of his research is on the subjects «The Early Iron Age in Northern and Northern Central Europe» and «settlement archaeology». He has published more than 60 papers in national and international journals, books and enciclopediae (in English, German, Italian, Polish, Danish and Norwegian) and has edited or been coeditor of five books. In addition, he has presented papers at more than 50 international conferences as well as being the initiator of more than 10 such events.
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is holding a Ph.D. degree in History and is currently Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
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(Phd) is an archaeologist, coordinating scientific researcher in the History, Archaeology, and Museography Department at the National Museum of History of Moldova in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. She is also a collaborator at the Ion Niculiță Archaeology Center at the State University of Moldova. She specializes in classical archaeology, ancient Greek culture, particularly the research and study of Greek commercial amphorae and the influence of Greek-Barbarian trade on the development of local societies in the northwestern and western Black Sea regions. He is the author of about 100 articles on the research topic and has published two monographs. He has participated in archaeological research on ancient sites in Ukraine and Romania. ORCID No: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4660-9781
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is a project manager at LIED (Laboratory of Pedagogical Innovation and Distance Learning) at the Polytechnic University of Tomar (IPT). She is pursuing a PhD in Heritage, Technology and Territory at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the IPT and holds an MA in Conservation and Restoration. She held the position of Secretary General of the Portuguese Military Tourism Association. Her experience includes working as a conservator-restorer in easel painting and polychrome wood sculpture. She is a collaborating researcher at TECHN&ART, a research and development unit specialising in technology, restoration and the valuation of cultural heritage. She has already developed projects in the military and historical heritage and tourism, as well as in preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Additionally, she is a collaborating researcher at CGeo, the Geosciences Centre (R&D unit). She has published several papers, book chapters, and an encyclopaedia entry and has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences and scientific meetings.
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ORCID no. 0000-0002-0236-986X

is Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Romanian History, World History and Archeology, State University of Moldova; Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of Moldova; He is a specialist in the history and archeology of the Roman period of the Carpatho-Dniester space. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, including monograph Ethno-cultural processes in the Carpathian-Dniestrian area in the 2nd-14 th Centuries. Soviet historiography (Chişinău 2009). He is member of the editorial board of the Preventive Archeology in the Republic of Moldova and Historical heritage.
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has a doctor’s degree from „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania and he is doing research on the Eurasian space, and the study of geopolitical transformations, contradictions, crises and conflicts in the post-Soviet space / Eastern Europe, are part of his scientific concerns as well. Among the contributions in the field of research to the study of conflicts in the post-Soviet space, can be listed the activity of the Laboratory for the Transnistrian Conflict Analysis (LACT) – a research program of the Center for Research in Political Science, International Relations and European Studies (the research institution of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Security Studies - Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences of the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu), writing the monograph Chronology of the Transnistrian Conflict, annotated bibliographically (with Russian version), Armanis Publishing House, Sibiu, 2018, and publication of scientific articles. The most recent published articles are: The telecommunications issue in the Transnistrian conflict settlement process, Yearbook of the Laboratory for Transnistrian Conflict Analysis, Vol. IV, no.1, Sibiu, 2020; Aspects of religious identity in the Transnistrian region. Retrospectives and perspective, Yearbook of the Laboratory for Transnistrian Conflict Analysis, Vol. IV, no.1, Sibiu, 2020 (co-author Marius Șpechea); The Relationships Between Russia and the West in the New International Context, Vestnik Uchenykhov - Mezhdunarodnikov, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, no. 4 (14), Moscow, 2020; Foreign policy directions and instruments of the Russian Federation in the Transnistrian issue, Yearbook of the Laboratory for Transnistrian Conflict Analysis, Vol. III, no.1, Sibiu, 2019.
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is Dr. hab., Professor at the Free University of Berlin. Specialist in the pre-Roman and Roman Age in Barbaricum. Studied prehistory and early history, geography, European ethnology and classical archeology at the Universities of Marburg and Heidelberg and at the Institute of Archeology London. Scientific interests are especially focused in the Settlements and Battle Archeology. In the years 2011-2019 it was Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. He is currently the coordinator of the archaeological research project Ausgrabung der Siedlung der Poienești-Lucașeuca Kultur von Ivancea-sub Pădure (ME 1251/12-1) funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Author of more than 150 scientific publications, including 2 monographs: Pevestorf 19. Ein mehrperiodiger Fundplatz im Landkreis Lüchow-Dannenberg. Veröffentlichungen der urgeschichtlichen Sammlungen des Landesmuseums zu Hannover 41 (Oldenburg 1993) und Mardorf 23, Ldkr. Marburg-Biedenkopf. Archäologische Studien zur Besiedlung des deutschen Mittelgebirgsraumes in den Jahrhunderten um Christi Geburt (Rahden/Westf. 2008). He is Member of the editorial board of the journal Plural. History. Society.
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is an Associate Professor at Institute of Archaeology Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Historical Sciences Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Vice-President of the General Board of the Scientific Association of Polish Archeologists, Corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Römisch-Germanische Kommision. His research interests include the Pre-Roman Iron Age and the Roman Period in the Central Europe; prehistoric building construction; settlement archaeology, contacts between Jastorf- and Przeworsk-Culture circle, pottery study. For a year 2015 implementing the project Past closed in clay. Geochemoarchaeological indicators of Greater Poland pottery from the younger pre-Roman iron age as a source for understanding the cultural diversity of age (National Science Centre, Poland, UMO-2014/15/B/HS3/02279). Author and co-autor of over 90 studies published in specialty journals and monographs, and also of several books, as well: Osady kultury przeworskiej z terenów ziem polskich, Poznań 2003; Budownictwo kultury przeworskiej, Poznań 2011; The Jastorf Culture in Poland, Oxford 2013 (with Z. Woźniak, M. Grygiel, H. Machajewski); Przemiany osadnictwa I środowiska przyrodniczego Poznania i okolic od schyłku starożytności do lokacji miasta, Poznań 2016 (with M. Kara, M. Makohonienko), Grabkowo, Gm. Kowal, stanowiska 7 i 8. Źródła archeologiczne do studiów nad okresem przedrzymskim na Nizinie Wielkopolsko-Kujawskiej, Poznań 2017 (with W. Kaczor, M. Teska, M. Żółkiewski). He is the editor of the volume: Viator per devia scieniae intinera. Studia nad problematyką okresów przedrzymskiego, rzymskiego, wędrówek ludów i wczesnego średniowiecza, Poznań 2015 (with M. Teska, M. Żółkiewski); Settlements Pottery of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Central European Barbaricum – new research perspectives, Poznań 2017 (with M. Teska, P. Niedzielski, M. Żółkiewski); Archeologia sarbskich lasów, Sarbia 2017 (with M. Strawa, R. Bartkowiak, M. Teska). Editor-in-chief of the Journals Slavia Antiqua and Wielkopolskie Sprawozdania Archeologiczne. PL61-614 Poznań.
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(b. 1973), PhD, senior researcher at the Cultural History Department, “A.D. Xenopol” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, Iaşi (Romania). Participant to the international projects: Remembering Communism: Methodological and Practical Issues of Approaching the Recent Past in Eastern Europe (2006-2009), coordinated by Maria Todorova and Stefan Tröbst; Joint History Project Phase II – Extending the proven tool for Reconciliation to the sensitive recent history of Southeast Europe (2015-2016), coordinated by Center For Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (Thessaloniki, Greece). Recent publications: Copilărie, familie, şcoală: politici educaţionale şi receptări sociale, Iaşi, “Al. I. Cuza” University Press, 2016, 354p.; (co-edited with Nicoleta Roman), Copilării trecute prin război. Povești de viață, politici sociale și reprezentări culturale în România anilor 1913-1923, Iaşi, “Al. I. Cuza” University Press, 2020.
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is a historian and professor at the Valahia University of Târgoviște, Romania. His research focuses on the history of Romanian foreign policy in the 20th and 21st centuries, Baltic and Nordic history, Romania’s relations with the Baltic and Nordic countries, and the history of minorities in East Central and South Eastern Europe. He has led international research projects with publications such as Europe Viewed from the Margins: a Central European Perspective of the 19th and 20th Centuries and Utopia versus Realism in Romania’s foreign policy. He has authored numerous monographs, chapters, articles, and volumes of documents published in Romania, Baltic and Nordic countries and elsewhere in Europe or the United States of America. He is the director of the “Grigore Gafencu” Research Center for International Relations and Heritage Studies and editor-in-chief of the Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies. Since 2010, he has summed up a yearly conference of Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania, the largest such event in South Eastern Europe. He has been awarded medals and awards in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and the OK for his excellence in Baltic and Nordic studies and British studies. His research has resulted in more than 30 books as author, editor, or co-author, as well as 100 scientific articles and chapters published internationally.
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ORCID no. 0000-0002-0472-4212

is an Associate Professor & Ph.D. at Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Over a decade (2000-2010) worked in Greece, in Athens obtaining research grants. As editor of the first newspaper in Romanian in Greece, he worked for the weekly "Courier of Athens" (2002-2003), later the "Week" („Săptămâna”, 2005). Within the European program ENTER was employed as a researcher at the Institute for Neohellenic Research / F.N.R.S. in Athens (KNE). Author of 12 books and a wafer of poetry, published in Chisinau, Iasi, Athens and Thessaloniki. Key area of research is the period of transition from the medieval to the modern: the history of international relations in Southeast Europe (18th century – early 19th century), Phanariotes genealogy, heraldry, Romanian-Greek relations.
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is a professor of history in pre-university education and a PhD student in the field of history at the Doctoral School at Valahia Târgoviște University. He has been a member of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences since 1998 and a school inspector, for the history field, within the Dâmbovița County School Inspectorate. He participated with his papers in numerous scientific communication sessions and published articles and studies in specialized publications. The main areas of interest are: educational policies, Bessarabian and Bukovinian refugees and the Holocaust.
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is a PhD student at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. His research focuses on the early modern (Ottoman) Zagori, NW Greece, funded by the White Rose College for the Arts and Humanities (AHRC) and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. He holds a BA in history and archaeology from the University of Crete and MAs in Aegean Archaeology and Heritage Management from the Universities of Sheffield and Kent, respectively. His research interests range from post-medieval and early-modern archaeology to archaeological theory, the history of archaeology and cultural heritage management.
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is director of the Archeology Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory ArheoTop, Associate Professor at Department of History and Social Sciences, Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University of Chișinău, PhD in Archaeology (1996, Cluj-Napoca). His research interests are determined by the settlement archaeology and pottery study, Latène era issues in the South-Eastern Europe, especially those linked with the Germanic population in the East-Carpathian forest-steppe and their relations with the local population (contacts between Poieneşti-Lucaşeuca – Zarubincy – Jastorf - and Przeworsk Culture circle). Hi is president of the Archaeological Research Centre from Moldova, Corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Römisch-Germanische Kommision, and member of the editorial board of the journals Plural. History. Society. Culture and Arheologia Preventivă în Republica Moldova. ORCID No: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9340-8002
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is an architect, a PhD and a full professor of Architectural Restoration; he is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa and the Director of the School of Specialization for Architectural Heritage and Landscape. He is the President of SIRA-Italian Society for Architectural Restoration. He teaches Studio Class of Restoration and Fundaments of Architectural Restoration and the member of the Board of the PhD Program in Conservation of Architectural Heritage of the Politecnico di Milano. He is the President of EAA-European Association for Architectural Education and a co-coordinator of its Thematic Network on Conservation. He is also the member of the Scientific-Technical Committee for Landscape of MiBACT-Ministry of Cultural Goods and Activities and Tourism. He is the member of the Scientific Committees of ANCSA-National Association for Historic and Artistic Centres and many cultural associations, congresses, books series and magazines. He is the visiting professor in foreign universities, an external examiner at the UCD-University College Dublin and at the Jon Mincu University in Bucharest and taught on the courses organized by UNESCO and other international organizations. He is an expert for the Research Assessment for Italian, Romanian and Greek Universities. His scientific and research activity is mainly focused on doctrinal principles of architectural and landscape heritage preservation, conservation and restoration methods and techniques, conservation of historical centres, maintenance and renewal of rural architecture. He is an academic person responsible for research programs of local interest, of national relevance, of European level or granted by State or local authorities and administration. He is the member of several juries for international design competitions. He is the author of Restoration projects of some monumental buildings and a consultant for others. He is the author of more than 270 scientific publications in Italy and abroad. Presently, he is the coordinator of an Expert Group activated by ICOMOS-European Commission for the flagship initiative “Cherishing heritage: developing quality principles for interventions on cultural heritage” within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage-2018.
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is currently a Professor at Department of History and Social Sciences, Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University of Chișinău and professor at the „Valahia” University of Târgoviște, Romania. He is the author of 8 monographs and more than 300 articles on history, archaeology, cultural heritage preservation and textbooks analysis. The most recent works are „Community Archaeology in Eastern Europe. An Example from the Republic of Moldova”. In: Jameson, John H. and Sergiu Musteata (eds), Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century- Contributions from Community Archaeology. One World Archaeology Series. Springer, 2019, 45-58; „Archaeological Heritage Resource Management in Romania and the Republic of Moldova: A Comparative View”. In: Campbell S., White L., Thomas S. (eds) Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage. Springer, Cham, 2019, 45-61; Nomads and Natives beyond the Danube and the Black Sea, 700-900 CE, Amsterdam University Press, ARC Humanities Press, Leeds, 2018. He is the editor of two monograph series – ANTIM monographs and Unknown Documents and Histories (30 volumes published). Every year he delivers over 20 presentations and public lectures in various academic centres around the world. During recent years, he has been a visiting scholar and a visiting professor in many universities in the USA, Germany, Romania, Sweden, etc. ORCID No: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2736-1810
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