Dr Tobias Schumacher is Professor of European Studies at the Department of Historical and Classical Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also Senior Professorial Fellow at the College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw, Poland). He is deputy coordinator of the international research project “REDEMOS – Reconfiguring EU Democracy Support towards a Sustained Demos in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood”, financed by the European Union for the period 2023-2025 in the framework of its Horizon Europe programme. He has held a number of distinguished fellowships, including: John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge MA., USA; Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom; Marie Curie Fellow and Jean Monnet Fellow respectively at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy; and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies (CEI), Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.