Europadagene 2023: Innledere
Lise Rye
Lise Rye er professor i europeisk samtidshistorie ved NTNU og leder av NTNUs studieprogram i Europastudier.
Rye forsker på den europeiske integrasjonens historie, med EUs historie og Norges forhold som spesialfelt. Målet med denne forskningen er å forstå hvorfor ulike former for integrasjon vokser frem, hvordan EUs utvikling kan forklares, og hvordan integrasjon påvirker demokratiet, i medlemsstatene og på europeisk nivå.

Jimmy Jamar
Jimmy Jamar is a Belgian citizen. After working for 10 years in the academic world at the College of Europe in Bruges, he joined the European Commission, where he worked for 30 years in the areas of education, research, employment and communication. After his retirement in 2019, he became the Head of the Brussels office of Europa Nostra, the largest European organisation dealing with Cultural Heritage. Jimmy has also written 8 books on Europe and Greece.

Natalia Mamanova
Natalia Mamonova is a senior researcher at RURALIS (Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Norway) and a research consultant at the University of Notre Dame (USA).
She has over 10 years of research experience in rural politics, agrarian transformation, social movements, food sovereignty and right-wing populism in post-socialist Europe. She received her PhD degree from Erasmus University (the Netherlands) in 2016. Since then, she was a researcher/lecturer at the University of Oxford, the New Europe College in Bucharest, the University of Helsinki, and the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. Natalia’s current research is mainly focused on the impact of the war in Ukraine on the Ukrainian and global food systems.

Jean-Christophe Delmas
Jean-Christophe arbeider som seniorrådgiver med fokus på Sentral- og Øst-Europa samt EØS-midler. Han konsentrerer seg om EU-saker, spesielt innen sivilsamfunn, og leder oppdraget som kontaktpunkt for sivilsamfunnet og Active Citizens Fund under EØS-midlene i samarbeid med Utenriksdepartementet.
Før han ble en del av Helsingforskomiteen, hadde Jean-Christophe erfaring fra internasjonal utviklingssektor. Han begynte med å styre EU-midler i Mayotte, nord for Madagaskar, og deretter arbeidet han i Norec (tidligere Fredskorpset) i Norge. Hans akademiske bakgrunn inkluderer studier i internasjonale relasjoner ved London School of Economics og europeisk politikk ved Europakollegiet i Brugge, Belgia. Jean-Christophe behersker norsk, engelsk og fransk.

Siddharth Sareen
Siddharth Sareen is Professor in Energy and Environment at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, and Professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen. He coordinates the Sustainability Transformation programme area at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Stavanger, with a portfolio of research projects worth over €10 million. His research focuses on the governance of energy transitions at multiple scales, in diverse contexts, and within and across a range of sectors, such as resource extraction, electricity generation, distribution and end-use, and urban transport. He teaches on a Master programme in Energy, Environment and Society, and is a member of the Young Academy of Norway and the Empowered Futures Research School.

Peter Chin
Dr. Chin is Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Coordinator of Queen's University's Technological Education Program. His research interests can be found in the areas of teacher education and science education. Within teacher education, his research focuses on the complexities of the practicum setting (from both the teacher candidate’s and school associate’s perspectives) and how we can improve our understanding of this setting through the establishment of collaborative communities of practice.

Sebastian Klein
Sebastian Klein er ansatt som pedagog ved Falstadsenteret. Han er utdannet som historiker ved NTNU og jobber med å videreutvikle den historiedidaktiske profilen til Falstadsenteret. I tillegg er han prosjektleder for Dembra (demokratisk beredskap mot rasisme og antisemittisme) i Midt-Norge; et nasjonalt tilbud om kompetanseutvikling for lærere, skoleledere og andre ansatte i skolen.

Anette Askedal
Anette Askedal er seniorrådgiver i Norges Forskningsråd og jobber som nasjonalt kontaktpunkt (NCP) og ekspert i programkomiteen for klynge 2 (kultur, kreativitet og inkluderende samfunn) i Horisont Europa.

Wenche Rønning
Wenche Rønning is Associate Professor in pedagogy and currently also Vice Dean for Research at Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University. Her research interests comprise classroom research, research into teachers’ thinking, and areas such as student-active ways of working and place-based learning. She is also involved in research into Sami issues, mainly as supervisor for a PhD candidate.

Sigrid Sivertsen Haugan
Sigrid Sivertsen Haugan er kommunikasjonsrådgiver i Bufdir, der hun jobber med EU-programmet Erasmus+ ungdom. Programmet gir støtte til prosjekter for ungdom og ungdomsarbeidere og legger til rette for interkulturell læring og dialog.

Randi Kårstad
Randi Kårstad is a Senior advisor at Trøndelag fylkeskommune. Her responsibilities include Sami secondary education in Trøndelag. Dual citizen, Canada – Norway, with extensive experience in international cooperation and programs, including indigenous issues.

Marja Mortensson
Marja Mortensson is a South Saami yoiker and singer from Svahken Sïjte, a reindeer herding district in Innlandet County (Norway). Born into a reindeer herding family, Marja’s life, as well as her music, are both firmly rooted in the South Saami way of life. Marja has been a student at Nord University, where she has been able to study old recordings of traditional yoiks, she has successfully taught herself the South and Ume Saami yoiking tradition. Her songs are centred around different aspects of her indigenous Saami identity, e.g. the closeness and importance of the environment, as well as both her love for reindeer husbandry and her commitment to the protection and revitalisation of the South Saami language. In her own words: I strongly believe that we, as humans, can express our thoughts, emotions, and different lifestyles, far better if we are allowed to do so through the medium of our native languages.
