Armando Aliu

Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of the International and Political Studies at Jagiellonian University in Poland. He is currently Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for Global Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg (Germany). Dr. Armando Aliu's scientific works focus on the foundations of [[European Union Law]] and [[EU politics and migration governance]], the analysis of [[human rights]] and [[democracy]], the [[rule of law]] in a normative [[legal argumentation|political economy context]], albeit within the confines of the [[EU law and European studies]] tradition. He was born in Durres (Albania) in 1987. During his childhood (1987-1991), he was profoundly affected by [Revolutions of 1989|Fall of communism in Albania]]. His family left Albania in 1990 (grew up in a lower-middle-class family). He lived, educated, and worked in Turkey, Germany, Belgium, the UK, and Poland. Dr. Aliu's theoretical model and insights are devoted to revealing the collaboration and networking approaches of [[stakeholders]], [[democratic participation|governance]], and interstakeholders’ communication, legitimacy, and effectiveness in EU institutions and agencies to deliberate and pursue mutual interests. Dr. Aliu has been influenced by [[American pragmatism]], [[EU governance|multilevel governance|supranationalism]], [[transnationalism]], [[cosmopolitanism]], [[Socially Responsible Entrepreneurial Universities]], [[entrepreneurial academics|academic entrepreneurs|project-based research professorship]], [[social constructivism]], and [[postpositivism]]. As a home-based consultant and researcher, he has been partly engaged with the scientific activities of various institutions, such as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the UN Development Program (UNDP), the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN-FAO), the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), and so on. He is a Member of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Law Society of England and Wales, Max Planck Alumni Association (MPAA) and the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET). He holds a Ph.D. Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the ICU, Department of International Commerce and the European Union Law. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Competence, Migration Governance and Collaboration in the Balkans and Turkey: Migration and Refugees Issues from the European Union Law Perspective.” He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Hamburg in Germany. His M.A. dissertation is entitled “Controlling Migration and Hybrid Model: A Comparison of Western Balkans and North African Countries.” In his dissertation, he argued migration flows and asylum issues in the frame of empirical, analytical, and political comparisons of Western Balkans and North African countries. Dr. Aliu was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2011-2014). During his study and research at the University of Heidelberg, he attended many postgraduate lectures and seminars in various faculties and institutes. Based on one year contract (2011-2012) he was a DAAD investigator in the Schumpeter Project: Constitutional Reasoning in Europe (The JUDINST Project: Assessing Judicial Institutions and Judicial Performances: The Case for Judicial Review) at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. At the institute, he also worked independently on a project entitled “Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance and Controlling Migration: Triple Win Solution for the EU, the Western Balkans and North African Countries” (2012-2013). In 2017, he was a Visiting Study Fellow in the Department of International Development, IMI at the University of Oxford. He has over 10 years of research experience and over 100 scientific publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, congress proceedings, edited books, book chapters, project proposals, and so on. Since 2012, he has been serving as peer/reviewer for SSCI, SCI, A&H, ESCI indexed journals. Since 2014, he has been serving as a SEDIA funding & tender expert and senior ECAS EU project referee for the European Commission. He is an expert in the EU project proposals, such as Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska− Curie Actions (MSCA), European Research Council (ERC), the Programme for Single Market, Competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and European Statistics - Single Market Programme - SMP 2021-27 (formerly known as COSME), EUREKA; EUROSTARS, COST, Erasmus+, Research and Innovation Action (RIA), Action for Innovation (IA); Coordination and Support Action (CSA); ERA-NET; Fast Track to Innovation (FTI). His research interests contain; human rights, ethics and moral values, UN SDGs, migration and refugee studies, asylum and immigration law, AI, big data, European studies, EU law, governance, WTO law, stakeholder approach and collaboration, and so on. He is an Outstanding/Recognised Peer of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer); Academy of Management (AoM); Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Brill - Nijhoff & Lynne Rienner Publishers); Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer); Cambridge Journal of Science & Policy (University of Cambridge, CJSP); Journal of Travel Medicine (Oxford University Press); Globalization and Health (Springer); Innovation and Impact (De Gruyter Open); Economia Politica (Springer); SAGE Open (SAGE Publications); International Journal of Intercultural Relations (Elsevier); Journal of Migration Health (Elsevier); International Economics and Economic Policy (Springer); Tourism Management (Elsevier); Annals of Tourism Research (Elsevier); Current Issues in Tourism (Taylor and Francis – Routledge); International Journal of Tourism Research (Wiley); Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis); Cogent Education (Taylor and Francis); MDPI Social Sciences; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI); Healthcare (MDPI); Administrative Sciences (MDPI); Sustainability (MDPI); Journal of Personalized Medicine (MDPI); Journal of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI); Genealogy (MDPI); Societies (MDPI); Energies (MDPI); Journal of open innovation (MDPI); Tourism and Management Studies (Algarve, Portugal). He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Business Policy & Governance, and Social Sciences Advisory Board Member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He was an associate member in the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, Institute of Criminology and a CUSPE fundraiser at the University of Cambridge. Honors: DAAD Fellowship – German Academic Exchange Service: 2010-2012 Istanbul Commerce University Full Ph.D. Scholarship (2015-2018) Visiting Study Fellowship – University of Oxford, Department of International Development (January – April 2017), Oxford, UK Best Paper Award – 18th International Triple Helix Conference 2020 (THC2020), Tampere University, 15-17 June 2020, Tampere, Finland KU Leuven LIAS Fellowship Award 2023 – KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.