Alina Iovcheva

The Gender Sociology team at the Department of Sociology congratulates Dr. Alina Iovcheva (Petro Mohyla Black Sea University) on receiving a scholarship from the European Fund for Displaced Scientists (EFDS). She has been awarded one of the one year fellowships of the "Dimensions of Europe" area of excellence. The scholarship is implemented with the support of the SOWI faculty.

Alina Iovcheva received her PhD in political science ("Gender equality in modern political processes of the Republic of Serbia and Ukraine") in 2013. She is currently an associate professor at the History Department of Petro Mohyla Black Sea University, head of the International Relations Office and executive director of the non-profit organisation "Together to develop". 

Iovcheva regularly participates in Ukrainian and international projects, programmes and conferences, e.g. "Gender in politics" (Robert Shuman Institute, Hungary), Human Rights Umbrella (Ukraine-Sweden), Humanity in Action (Germany, Poland), "Reconciliation of Work, Personal and Private Life" (Serbia), "Eastern European Partnership" (Ukraine-Germany), "Political Mechanisms Providing 'Green Economy' in Germany" (Germany), "Ecology and Civil Society" (Ukraine-Germany). She is the executive director of the non-profit organisation "Together to develop", which focuses on scientific projects in the southern part of Ukraine. Iovcheva is a member of the "Ukrainian Association of European Studies". 

Iovcheva is co-author of a monograph, she has also published methodological and didactic works, articles in both international and national journals and numerous articles in conference proceedings.

Alina’s research project at the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europeanization” is “Implementation of European Values as a Basis of Transitions to Democracy in SouthEastern European Countries”. An individual research fellowship will be based on identification and analysis of the specifics of the process of implementing European values in the democratic transits of Southeast Europe (Croatia, Serbia, Moldova and Ukraine).

Link to the "Ukrainian Researchers at Risk Fellowship Programm" at the Uni Graz

LINK to University of Graz Online (UGO)