Department of Communication and Internet Studies
Her research interests lie in the field of ICT/internet based political processes and their evolution in link with social media with a specific emphasis on Voting Advice Applications. Other areas of research include politics and political parties in Southern Europe, electoral campaigns, social movements and online collective Identities and European referendums.
A/A |
Date |
Title |
Funded by |
Project Role |
1 | 2021 – 2024 | Democratising Territorial Cohesion: Experimenting with deliberative citizen engagement and participatory budgeting in European regional and urban policies [DEMOTEC] (GA no. 962553) | Horizon 2020, SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies, European Commission | Research Team Member |
2 |
2018-2021 |
RePast: Strengthening European integration through the Analysis of Conflict Discourses. Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future (G.A. no. 769252) |
Horizon 2020, CULT-COOP-02-2017, European Commission |
Research Team Member
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3 |
2016-2018 |
COHESIFY: The impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identity (G.A. no. 693427) |
Horizon 2020, REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2015, European Commission |
Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package (WP 4: |
4 |
2016-2018 |
NOTRE: Network for sOcial computing Research (G.A. no. 692058) |
Horizon 2020, TWIN-2015, European Commission |
Research Team Member & Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package (WP7) |
5 |
2014 |
EUVox2014: An EU-wide voting advice application (VAA) for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament
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Open Society Initiative for Europe & DG for Communication of the European Parliament (area of internet-based activities/online media) |
Research Team Member & Scientific Coordinator for Cyprus |
6 |
2012-2013 |
ICTs and Social Movements: An interdisciplinary study of the organization, ideological positioning and rhetoric of online social movements |
Εναρκτήρια Χρηματοδότηση ΤΕΠΑΚ |
Project Coordinator |
7 |
2008-2010 |
Constitutional Conventions, Direct Democracy and Institutional Change (No. 100015_120040) |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Research Team Member
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8 |
2009-2010 |
European Referendums Revisited II (No. 10015_124577) |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package |
9 |
2007-2008 |
European Referendums Revisited I (No. 100015_12477) |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Research Team Member
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10 |
2006-2008 |
Evaluation of the use of new technologies in political organisations in Europe (STOA) |
European Science Foundation Fund (Towards Electronic Democracy (TED)) |
Research Team Member
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11 |
2005-2007 |
PYTHAGORAS II: Perceptions and Representations of war and terrorism in discourse. A comparative study in national and supranational context [Corporate Program Community Initiative: 01-Measure: 002-Project 326 (49) Pythagoras II – Enforcement of University Research Teams] |
Ministry of Education and Religion, Greece |
Research Team Member
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Journal Articles
Books / Monographs
Edited Books
Special Issues
Book Chapters
Other Publications (Working Papers/Reports)
Triga, V. and Ioannidis, N. (2023). “The Cypriot presidential elections of 2023 and its aftermath”. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and PRIO Cyprus Centre. Available at: https://www.prio.org/publications/13457
Mendez, C., Gazzola, M., Clement-Wilz, L., Triga, V., Mendez, F., Djouvas, C., Charalambous, A. and Bachtler, J. (2022). “Research for CULT Committee – The European Union’s approach to multilingualism in its own communications policy”. European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels. Available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2022/699648/IPOL_STU(2022)699648_EN.pdf
Katakis, I., Tsapatsoulis, N., Triga, V., Tziouvas, C. and Mendez, F. (2012). “Clustering Online Poll Data: Towards a Voting Assistance System”. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP’12), Luxembourg.
Qualification |
Year |
Awarding Institution |
Department |
Thesis title |
PhD |
2007 |
European University Institute, Italy |
Social and Political Science |
Europe beyond Brussels: An analysis of everyday discourses in the EU agencies |
BA |
1998 |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Psychology |
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Period of employment |
Employer |
Location |
Position |
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From |
To |
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July 2021 | Today | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Associate Professor |
2015 |
2021 |
Cyprus University of Technology |
Limassol, Cyprus |
Assistant Professor |
2011 |
2015 |
Cyprus University of Technology |
Limassol, Cyprus |
Lecturer |
2009 |
2011 |
University of Zurich |
Zurich, Switzerland |
Researcher (Post-Doc) |
2007 | 2010 | University of Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | Research Coordinator |
2005 | 2007 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki, Greece | Research Collaborator |
2003 | 2005 |
European University Institute |
Florence, Italy | Research Collaborator |
A/A |
Date |
Title |
Awarded by: |
1 |
2002-2003 |
Full-time scholarship for one-year PhD research |
Ministry of Education, Italy |
2 |
2001-2002 |
Full-time scholarship for inter-university post-graduate students’ exchange (at CNRS-Paris) |
European University Institute, Florence, Italy |
3 |
1999-2002 |
Full-time scholarship for three-year PhD studies |
State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ), Greece |
4 |
1999-2000 |
Research Grant awarded by the European Political-Economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC) |
European Commission (Targeted Socio-Economic Research) |
5 |
1998 |
Honorary Award for Research in the “International Ideas Competition: Architecture and the Eradication of Poverty” |
United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (in collaboration with the Union of International Associations-UIA) |