Ana was born in the island of Sakhalin, Russia.  She studied Translation and Interpretation in Herzen State University, Saint Petersburg. At the same time, for 4 years she was volunteering in Saint Petersburg at International Economic Forum and other international events taking place in the city.  After graduation she moved to Flensburg to study European Studies Master program. She graduated from ECMI Summer School 2012. Her major interest in minority issues is interdependence of language and identity and sovereignty of minorities. At ECMI, she will be working for the Politics and Civil Society Cluster and study Russia’s compatriot abroad policies and their aspects.

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 Andreea Racles obtained her B.A. in Sociology (2008) from University of Bucharest when she started being interested in Roma minority issues in Romania. Then, she enrolled in the Master in Anthropology at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, when she drew on the topic of housing and domestic practices of Roma people living in rural communities. During her master studies, she was an exchange student at University of Copenhagen attending courses within the Department of Anthropology.  Since 2009 she is collaborating at the Center of Cultural Research in Bucharest as a researcher in social sciences. At ECMI she is a Justice and Governance cluster intern, exploring topics as minority representative and consultative bodies, and cultural representations.

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Emiliya Bratanova graduated as a master of science in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she specialized in migration and integration. She has obtained a bachelor degree in sociology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Her interests in the field of social sciences cover political sciences, sociology and anthropology in the area of migration and ethnic studies in the EU. She has worked on the relationship between EU- and national citizenship, European identities and policies producing inequalities among different categories of migrants within the EU. At the ECMI she is contributing to the Politics and Civil Society cluster, working on Bulgarian kin-state policies.

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Fulvia Ghirardi received her M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Trento, Italy. She is completing her second Master in European Studies at the University of Flensburg and University of Southern Denmark. During her M.Sc. she was Erasmus exchange student for one semester at the Fachhochschule in Mainz, Germany. From 2000 to 2003 she was consultant for Quality Management Systems and responsible for standards and norms internal update, in Italy. She lived in Toronto for one year working as Language Tester and volunteering for charity organizations. From 2005 to 2011 she worked as Project Coordinator and Financial Controller for Siemens Flow Instruments in Denmark. Currently she is an intern at ECMI for the Culture and Diversity cluster.

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