Dr. Jovan Shopovski is a professor of Company Law in the Republic of Macedonia and a founding member and president of the European Scientific Institute (ESI) since 2010. He serves as an advisor to the Rector for Internationalization at Grigol Robakidze University, leveraging his expertise in enhancing international relations and improving university rankings. Dr. Shopovski has extensive experience in writing Erasmus projects and developing strategies to strengthen academic partnerships and institutional visibility on the global stage.

As a visiting professor, he has delivered lectures, workshops, and training sessions in the areas of academic writing and academic publishing at universities across Spain, China, Italy, Poland, Romania, Argentina, Ecuador, and Georgia. He is also the program director of the ESI Postdoctoral Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, a unique initiative connecting researchers from diverse academic fields to address contemporary societal challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration.

A staunch advocate for peace, Dr. Shopovski believes that progress can only be achieved through unity and condemns war activities in all forms. His professional journey reflects a commitment to fostering academic excellence, ethical values, and global cooperation

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Assoc. Professor Dejan Marolov, PhD, is a founding member of the European Scientific Institute. Supported by the European Commission, he pursued his graduate studies at the European Institute in Nice, France, where he earned his MA degree defending his thesis “Advanced European and International Studies”. He obtained his PhD in International Law from the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD), affiliation of the University for Peace, established by the United Nations. Numerous international journals and periodicals have published his academic papers in law and international relations. He authored more than six monographs. Prof. Marolov has reviewed scientific articles for respectable international journals, including the reputable “European Scientific Journal”. He has served on many national and international committees at scientific conferences and forums.

Dr. Jacques de Vos Malan has spent the past 6 years directing Australia’s largest interdisciplinary research program, publishing evidence-based research reports for Australia’s Chief Scientist. With a group of Australian academics and Academy Fellows, each distinguished in their own field, he authored Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility, ACOLA 2015, a major report on the future of Australian cities.

He holds degrees from the Universities of Cape Town, London (King’s College) and Pretoria. His work is published in New York, Cape Town and Canberra and included in the National Library Canberra, the Gaudeamus Foundation Contemporary Music Library, Amsterdam and the New York Public Library. He worked as an arts administrator in South Africa and Australia for more than thirty years, where his roles included Executive Director of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne Recital Centre.

Dr. Jose Noronha Rodrigues holds a PhD in law from the Santiago de Compostela University, Spain. He works as an Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores and is also Director of the Centre of Law and Economics Studies at the University of the Azores, researcher and coordinator of Law courses of the Department of Economics and Business at the same University.

He is a Lawyer with law office in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. He is a member of the editorial board of numerous international scientific journals including the European Scientific Journal (ESJ). He is also a member of various academic institutes and centers worldwide.

Dr. Noronha Rodrigues is author of the book “A identidade e (des) identidade dos valores europeus”, “Colectânea de Legislação sobre o Estatuto Político Administrativo da Região Autónoma dos Acores” and of many papers in international and national journals.
Dr. Noronha Rodrigues is an ESI chief of International Legal Studies Center.

Dr. David Perez Jorge is a Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. He has been a General Education Teacher in 1991 (University of La Laguna), Degree in Philosophy and Educational Sciences in University of La Laguna in 1996, Degree in Primary Education (2015) and Doctor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences in 2008. Supplementary Training, Masters and Experts: 1) University Master: Educate in Diversity. 2) Expert in Assessing the Quality in University Education. 3) Master in Sleep, Physiology and Medicine. 4) Master in Neuroscience and behavioural Biology. 5) Master in Intervention in Special Education. 6) Master in new Educational Resources for teachers. 7) Master in Educational Competences in Intervention with Minors. 8) Master in Social Education. 9) Master in Intercultural Mediation.10) Master in Educational Competencies and Intervention with Minors.

Dr. Nino Kemertelidze is a Vice-Rector of the University “Grigol Robakidze”, Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a Doctor of linguistics, specialist of Anglistics. She works at Grigol Robakidze University from the very day of its establishment at first as an Assistant Professor, then as a Professor and the Head of the Department of International Relations. Since 1996, she is the Vice-Rector of the University.

The sphere of her activities is international relations and scientific research. Success of Grigol Robakidze University, interesting international education and research programmes are connected to the Professor’s activities. She plays the particular attention to the accomplishment of students’ and lecturers’ joint research projects. She involves students into distance learning programmes of well-known foreign universities.

Professor Kemertelidze is the author of two monographs and over 20 scientific articles. She is the member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has participated in several international projects.

John B. Strait is a Professor of Geography at Sam Houston State University in Houston, Texas  (U.S.A.), where he serves as the Assistant Chair and Geography Program Coordinator in the Department of Environmental and Geosciences. He is a long term collaborator and supporter of the ESI and serves as an Associate Editor for the Environmental Science Journal (ESJ).

Dr. Strait is a broadly trained human geographer specializing in sociocultural, urban, and ethnic geographies. His main research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of racial and ethnic identities, urban residential dynamics, diaspora studies and the geographic dimensions of social movements and the ways they manifest via music, visual arts, urban street art, and  religion. He regularly directs field courses and workshops, both international and intranational in
scope, that incorporate these various subject matter, particularly as they pertain to the U.S. South, the Mississippi Delta, Hawaii, Cuba, Spain and Brazil.

His list of publications include papers embracing the aforementioned topics, but also include research focused on pedagogical modules that incorporate field experiences, as well as collaborations with artistic projects that have been exhibited in the U.S., China, Japan, Brazil,  and Morocco.

Professor Dr. iur. Dr. phil. Franz-Rudolf Herber is a German lawyer and philologist. At Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg he teaches inter alia road law, public service law, liability of public authorities and cross-curriculum interrelations between law and language as well as between law and literature. He disposes of great international experience in international negotiations that he acquired during his long-standing occupation in the German Ministry of Transport. His strong personal belief is that the transport sector is universal and overriding borders. Franz-Rudolf Herber is the editor of a compendium on German road law and the editor of a collection of German and European rules on road traffic law. He is publishing in German language and English language; furthermore, he is publishing in Latin language that is not bound to the borders of a particular country. His political vision is that all people are equal and that the protection of nature is a universe responsibility

Dr. Holmes has been PI on 2 NIH Grants (EARDA and Bridges) and Co-PI on 2 NSF grants (Partnerships for Innovation, and ATE). In addition I have had numerous biotechnology grants through the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and North Carolina Space Grant. I have been teaching bioprocessing and other biotechnology courses at UNC Pembroke for 25 years. I was on the team that planned and built the UNCP Biotechnology Research and Training Center and given the honor to “cut the ribbon” on March 13, 2009. My research is based at the Sartorius-stedim Fermentation Lab, at the Center. I have directed or collaborated with undergraduates, teachers, community college instructors, post-doctoral students and visiting international scientists. I have contributed to a fermentation technology training manual used in an IARI National Training Program, Delhi 2011. Many of my collaborations have resulted in peer-reviewed publications.

In Memoriam: Roberto Kertész, MD., Ph.D.

Education
MD(physician), 1962. Specialist in Psychiatry, 1965
Professor and Ph. D. in Medicine, School of Medicine,
National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Work experience
2012 and ongoing, Rector Emeritus and Director of Postgraduate
Studies and Continous Education, Univ. of Flores
Previously, Rector, since 1995.
President of the University Foundation since 1994.

Scientific events
Organized over 40 international and national conferences, as president or general secretary
and presented over 800 lectures and seminars in 14 countries

Training and supervision
Personal analysis with Dr. Enrique Pichon Riviére, introducer of social psychology in Argentina. Supervision with Professors Edgardo Rolla and Mauricio Knobel (Argentina), Leopold Bellak, Eric Berne, Milton Erickson, Theodore Ayllon, Arnold A. Lazarus, Jacob Moreno, Paul Rosch (U.S.A.), Hans Selye, Thomas Ban, Eric Wittkower (Canada), Lennart Levi (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Teaching experiences
2014, since 1995-Full Professor, Doctorate in Psychology, Univ. of Flores
and former Professor, Kennedy Univ. Doctorate career,1973-1975,
Buenos Aires.

Consulting and training activities
International teacher and consultant in new behavioral sciences, in governmental and private institutions, 1974 to1994

Introduced Transactional Analysis (delegated by Dr. Eric Berne) and Multimodal therapy (delegated by Dr.Arnold Lazarus) and psychosocial stress management (supervised by Dr. Hans Selye) in Latin America, Spain and Hungary.

Publications
20 books as sole or main author and contributor in other.
Scientific papers
Over 100 published in Argentine and foreign Journals, several of them refereed

Distinctions (summary)
Honorary Doctorate, Soka Univ. of Japan, Honory Professor,Ricardo Palma, San Martín of Porres and Norbert Wiener Universities (Peru) Honorary Member, Polish Academy of Medicine and Albert Schweitzer Institute (Poland), of Academia Tiberina(Italy) ItaliaInternational Transactional Analysis, etc.

Professor Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almería (Spain) and she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Granada from 1979 on.

Thirty nine years of the teaching and researching experience. She is the Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects, as well as a Member of Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Greece, The Academic Genesis Platform (UAGP) in UK&Turkey and Experts of Academic Excellence Research Centre (EAERC) in Jordan; etc.

She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific Conferences. She has visited a many universities and academic institutions of Europe, United States and Arab countries in order to teach and research. Among her works, we have the study and the translation to Spanish of some treatises of Kitab al-tasrif´s Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Qutayba´s texts, Maqamas of Al-Hariri, The Sicilian Questions of Ibn Sab´in, etcetera.

Mondira Dutta, PhD, is currently the Chairperson of Centre for Inner Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has been the Director of UGC Central Asia Area Studies Programme for three consecutive terms. She has been actively involved in teaching and research activities for over three decades.
Her fields of specialization include Gender & Human Security with particular reference to Violence against Women in South Asia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Impact Studies and Child Labor. She has been the former Chairperson of the ‘Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment’ (GSCASH), Jawaharlal Nehru University (2008). She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the International Congress of Women for Justice, Equality, Peace and Progress, sponsored jointly by United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, Govt of India, FICCI and The India Today Group, New Delhi, on 7th March 2009.
She has been a UN Women consultant from 2009 to 2013 and also been a Consultant to several national and international organizations. To name a few include the British Council, Ford Foundation, NOVIB (The Netherlands), the DFID, The World Bank, International Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Human Rights Commission (Maldives), UNESCO, UN Women (South Asia), besides the government of India’s Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Women and Child Development and the National Commission for Women.
The National Strategy on anti–trafficking measures, from Aug 2011 to Dec 2011. During the period her study ‘Understanding Gender Equality, 2012’ was published by the National Commission for Women, Govt of India and released on 13 March 2012. She has been a guest researcher at the Stockholm University, Sweden, for a period of one month from September – October 2012 for research and lectures.

Angelo Viglianisi Ferraro is Aggregate Professor and Dean’s Proxy for International Affairs at the Department of Law and Economics of the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Italy where he is also the Director of a LL. M. in European Private Law and of the “Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research” (www.michr.unirc.it). He was a speaker at conferences, seminars and round tables, and an invited lecturer (for students and PhD candidates) in over 70 foreign universities in Europe, South America and China. He is an author of 2 books and coauthor of 5 books. He has also published numerous articles on civil liability, consumer law, family law, and fundamental rights.

Dr. Jorge Balladares is an Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador. His re- search interest are: ICT for Education, Design-based Research, Educational Technology, Digital Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence applied in Education. He got his Ph.D. in Teaching and ICT in Education at Extremadura University, Spain. He got his Post- Doc at European Scientific Institute (ESI).  He got his Master Degrees in Philosophy and ICT in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador.  He got his Bachelor Degree in Philosophy and Pedagogy at Universidad del Salvador, Argentina.

Prof. Franca Daniele received her degree in Medicine and Surgery, and then a Specialization degree in Sports Medicine from “G. d’Annunzio” University Medical School, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

She serves as professor of English language and translation in the Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences at “G. d’Annunzio” University Medical School, Italy.

She has been Director of the Medical English Unit, at “G. d’Annunzio” University.

She has been appointed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to cooperate with the Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR).

She is member of the Linguistic Society of America.

She is mentor for young researchers.

She is active reviewer/referee for many international journals.

Prof. Daniele’s list of publications includes theoretical and research papers in the field of English linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis, doctor-patient interaction, ESP and more specifically medical English, English learning and development in multicultural settings. Her most recent research interests include in depth studies in the field of traslation of medical language and more specifically, machine and AI medical translations.

Emeritus Professor Keith Morrison has worked in higher education for 40+ years, in the UK and South-East Asia, formerly at the University of Durham, UK and, since 2000, in Macau, where he has been Dean of a School of Education, Registrar, Director and Adviser for Institutional Development, and a university Vice rector. He is the author/co-author of 20 academic books on education, and for many years was the Co editor of the international peer reviewed journal Educational Research and Evaluation. He has conducted consultancies for governments, companies, organisations, and institutions in the UK, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, USA, Hong Kong, and Macau, and he has produced reports, papers, policy documents, and technical reports for government agencies and officers in several countries and educational institutions. He is a reviewer for funded research proposals for government grants agencies. He has been a reviewer for 25 international journals and for several leading international book publishers, has been a member of several Editorial Boards of peer-reviewed journals in education, and is a regular contributor to Macau Business. He is in the top 10 of Google Scholar’s world’s most cited authors in education. Before moving into higher education he taught in kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools in the UK. He has worked on research, consultancy, and development projects in schools and teacher education. He has been a prize winning music scholar and cathedral choral scholar/lay clerk; he is an organist, a member of the Royal College of Organists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His recent work in higher education academic, management, and administration fields has been in research methods, quality assurance, educational development and training for higher education academic, research, and administrative staff.

Dr. Elena Hunt is a professor emerita at Laurentian University in Canada and an internationally recognized researcher in mental health, transcultural care, health equity, and epidemiology. With a PhD in Psychology from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and over three decades of multilingual academic and clinical experience, she has led pioneering studies on social support, violence in mental illness, and online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hunt has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to multiple international research collaborations. She served as project supervisor at the European Scientific Institute and remains deeply engaged in community health initiatives and immigrant and refugee support programs in Ontario.