Reina Zenelaj Shehi is the vice-chair of the OPEN COST Action and a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Epoka University in Tirana, Albania. In this video, she talks about the training school held in Tirana in July 2025 at Epoka University, and how it will equip scholars with tools to strengthen the resilience of their academic communities.
Michele Martini chairs Working Group 3 of the OPEN COST Action and is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Digital Education at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. In this video, he discusses how Working Group 3 of the OPEN Action aims to empirically trace contemporary challenges to academic freedom and institutional autonomy.
Andrea Pető chairs Working Group 4 of the OPEN COST Action. She is a professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, and a Doctor of Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In this video, she describes how Working Group 4 is developing permanent infrastructure to protect academic freedom.
Benoît Josset co-chairs Working Group 4 and is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Rennes. Elif Kara is the Legal Entity Appointed Representative (LEAR) at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi. In this video, they talk about OPEN's Early Career Scholar Colloquium and how it enables early career scholars to share their work with international peers.
Petr Jurek heads the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. In this video, he talks about hosting the OPEN COST Annual Conference 2025 at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
Hila Zahavi is Director of the Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In this video, she talks about the OPEN Action's mobility-related grants.