Kostas Kanellopoulos (BA & MA University of Athens, PhD Panteion University, 2009) is the principal investigator of the project. Kostas has taught at the University of Crete, the University of Athens, the University of Peloponnese and at the Hellenic Open University and the Technological Educational Institutes of Patras and Piraeus. He has worked on several national, bilateral and European (H2020) research programs on protest event analysis, on the analysis political claims in the Eurozone crisis, discourse analysis, civil society, radical trade unionism and the emergence of contemporary transnational solidarity. The main subjects of his research, writing and teaching work are: the theory and study of social movements and contentious politics, comparative politics and the phenomenon of globalization, political participation and electoral behavior, social change and crisis, the phenomenon of nationalism, the sociology of news and discourse analysis. His work has been published in scientific journals and collective volumes in Greece and abroad. He is chief editor of the Greek Political Science Review and review editor of Frontiers in Political Science. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Political Science Association since 2006, having served twice as Deputy Secretary General (2008-2010 & 2014-2016) and twice as Secretary General (2016-2018 & 2018-today).

Konstantinos Kostopoulos (BA Panteion University, MA Université Paris IX – Dauphin, PhD candidate Panteion University) is a research associate of the project. His research interests and writing subjects include the study of collective action and social movements, the Greek anarchist movement, the sociology of political engagement and disengagement, the biographical narratives and the phenomena of nationalism and fascism. He has participated in several national and international conferences and his work has been published in scientific journals and collective volumes. He has worked on various research programs on protest event analysis, social and solidarity economy and discourse analysis. He is a member of the Hellenic Political Science Association since 2009 and of the Laboratory of Contentious Politics (Panteion University) since 2015.

Angelos Loukakis (BA & MA University of Crete, PhD University of Crete, 2020) is a research associate of the project. Angelos, is post-Doc researcher at University of Crete Research Center for Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (UCRC). His PhD thesis Solidarity groups, actions and claims during the economic crisis in Greece, investigated the political and social consequences of the Greek economic crisis. Other research interests include solidarity, collective action, social and environmental movements. He was a researcher at the EU funded projects EURYKA, TransSOL and Livewhat as well as in a SNIS funded project called “Social and Solidarity Economy, Urban Communities and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Times of Crisis”. Moreover, he has participated in the project Greeks, Germans and the Crisis, which investigated the attribution of responsibility about the economic crisis in the Greek, German, and international press. He publish extensively mainly in English journals and collective volumes.

Argyro Psychi – Fili (BA & MA Panteion University) is a research associate of the project. Argyro has been mostly preoccupied on an academic – research scale. Her thesis concerns the autonomous feminist movements in Italy and Greece during 1960 – 1980. Her academic interests have been mostly focused on issues of sex and sexuality, social policy, minorities, migration, social Movements and contentious politics. She has been research assistant at European University Institute’s program, participating in field research, data collection and recording. Prior to that, she had been an intern at National Center for Social Research, for data collection, recording and partial analysis.

(Diploma Polytechnic School of the University of Patras, BA National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, MA University of Utrecht, PhD candidate National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) is a research associate of the project. Stavros holds a Diploma - 5 years studies – in civil engineering, has carried out undergraduate studies in the field of media and communication and has completed the MA programme in Conflict Studies and Human Rights at the University of Utrecht. His MA thesis is based on a 2 months fieldwork research in Sierra Leone, focusing on the concept of legitimacy and trying to find out who has the right to rule according to Sierra Leoneans and where this right comes from. His phD dissertation deals with the institutional and political transformations of the European Union during the last decade due to the chosen economic and financial policies. Follower of UNRISD and Clingendael Institute, member of European Political Science Association (EPSA) & Hellenic Political Science Association.

Nikos Kapelonis is Technical and Laboratory Associate (ETEP) at the University of Crete. He is an expert in Information Technology and computers. Nikos has created the data entry masks and the online coding tools in the research projects LIVEWHAT and TRANSSOL.

Maria Kousis is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research and Studies at the University of Crete; she also served as Director of the MA & PhD program (2004-2008) and vice-Director of the MSc in Bioethics. She was coordinator of the EC DGXII project ‘Grassroots Environmental Action & Sustainable Development in the Southern European Union’ and partner in EC projects including TEA, PAGANINI and MEDVOICES. Publications include 11 edited volumes/books/special issues and 61 articles/book chapters, including Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (co-edited with Charles Tilly; Paradigm, 2005). Her research is focussed on Social Change, Contentious Politics, Environmental Politics, Bioethics and Southern Europe. Her current work focusses on the socio-economic and political dimensions of the crisis, especially in the context of the GGCRISI (Greek-German Ministries Cooperation), LIVEWHAT (FP7), TRANSSOL (H2020) and EURYKA (H2020) projects.

Giorgos Tsiolis is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete. He specializes in qualitative methods in sociological research and especially the use of NVivo software for qualitative analysis. He has participated in many national research projects and his publications include two relevant monographs: Tsiolis, G. (2014), Methods and techniques of analysis in qualitative social research, Athens: Kritiki, Tsiolis, G. (2006), Life stories and biographical narratives: Biographical approaches in sociological research, Athens: Kritiki.

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor in Modern European Studies in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Copenhagen and Adjunct Professor at ARENA, the Centre of European Studies of the University of Oslo. He is also Deputy Director of CEMES, Centre for Modern European Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coordinates WP3 of the EuroChallenge project. Hans-Jörg obtained his habilitation from the Humboldt University in Berlin (2004) and his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (1998, with the dissertation on mobilising collective identities: public discourse on immigration in Germany and Portugal). He studied sociology, criminology, romance languages and literature at the University of Saarland, Germany, University of Bari, Italy and Central University of Barcelona, Spain and obtained his degree in 1993. His research focusses on the European public sphere, European civil society, citizenship and democracy and transnational mobilisation and protest. He has authored and edited seven books and published more than 60 articles. The large part of his publications deals with aspects of media and political communication in Europe, applying a public sphere perspective to the process of European integration and analysing both print and new media. His writings also address questions of language, ethnicity, collective identity, civil society and democracy.