Project Team
Prof. Boglárka Koller
Professor
Boglárka Koller is a full professor, Jean Monnet Chair, head of Department of European Studies and vice-rector for international affairs at the University of Public Service, Budapest. She graduated at the Corvinus University, Budapest as an economist in 1998; she also holds an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University (CEU), Budapest and an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her main research areas are history and theories of European integration, differentiated integration and multi-speed Europe, Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe. She has numerous publications on European integration among which there are three books (Nemzet, identitás és politika Európában – Nations, identities and politics in Europe -, L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2006.; Európa utazása – The Voyage of Europe. History of EU integration; co-author with Krisztina Arató, Gondolat Kiadó, 2015; Képzelt Európa – Imagined Europe; co-author with Krisztina Arató, Balassi Kiadó, 2013) and several journal articles and edited volumes. Recently published an edited volume with Alexei D. Voskressenski: The Regional World Order at Lexington, USA and contributed to L'Europe, une fracture á retardement volume edited by Violaine Delteil and Xavier Richet, L’Harmattan in 2019 with a chapter ‘Differentiated Union. The Only Way Forward or One That Leads to Desintegrations?’ Her latest co-edited volume will be published in July 2021 at Routledge: The Political Economy of the Eurozone in Central and Eastern Europe. Why In, Why Out? (co-edited with Krisztina Arató and Anita Pelle).
Edina Zsigmond
Former Project Manager
Edina Zsigmond (1979) is a former diplomat, working with the University for Public Service since 2019. She has been a project manager for EU funded programmes as of 2005, with experience in EU regional and cohesion funds, Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020. As a diplomat Ms Zsigmond was responsible for the drafting of the Stipendium Hungaricum programme, today the most successful international mobility programme in Hungary after Erasmus. She has been working on EU affairs for many years, has been the proof-reader of number of EU study books, author of university study materials on EU communication and protocol, and worked as a trainer among others in career management, intercultural communication and conflict resolution.
Kitta Annamária
Project Manager
Head of Office of the International Office of the Ludovika University of Public Service. She obtained her Bachelor at the University of Nyíregyháza, and her Masters at the University of Pécs in the field of Humanities. Before her appointment as the Head of Office, she worked as a project manager on various domestic and international projects. Besides her high degree of leadership and management skills, she is also fluent in English and French languages.