Nena Mocnik is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at GRITIM-UPF Barcelona as well as a Digital Humanism Fellow at IWM Vienna, where her current participatory action research aims to provide reproductive health-related information for forcibly displaced mothers in Europe. As a researcher, educator and community worker, her interests lie in collective traumas, collective identity (gender) violence, art-based sociotherapy and how drama and theatre can be used to facilitate deeper understanding and engagement in studies on collective trauma and embodied memory. She is the author of two monographs: "Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research" (2017) and "Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Settings" (2021) and has been editor-in-chief of a third "The Cost of Bearing Witness: Secondary Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research'' (2020; 2024). Since 2018, she has collaborated with EuroClio as a project advisor, sparking her interest in trauma-informed history education and its impact on current sociopolitical dynamics. This led her to initiate and coordinate the project #Never Again: Teaching Transmission of Trauma and Remembrance through Experiential Learning”, which resulted in the design of a video game and the edited book Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience" (2021).

Tanja Kohvakka is a doctoral researcher at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, her dissertation examines the representation of minorities in history education in Finland. She holds an MA in human rights and democracy (Global Campus for Human Rights) and international politics (University of Tampere). Her MA thesis examined the connection between human rights and history education as well as the role of history teachers in transforming history education in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She has published peer-reviewed articles about history education in international and regional academic journals and popularised articles. Her research interests are textbook research, multiperspectivity, critical multicultural education, and grassroots practices in history education.

Dr Melina Foris was born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus. She holds a Bachelor's in History, the University of Athens, Greece; a Master of Arts in History from McMaster University, Canada; a Master of Science in Educational Research from King’s University, UK; and a Ph.D. from the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, Institute of Education, UCL, UK. She is interested in exploring history education in conflict-ridden societies and in how memories and beliefs about sensitive issues and troubled events of the past are conveyed through intergenerational narratives. Over the years, she has been involved with EuroClio, taking part in a variety of projects and training events.

Rodoljub Jovanović holds a PhD in Human Rights: Ethical, Social and Political Challenges (Conflict and Cultures of Peace) from the University of Deusto, Basque Country, Spain. His research takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining insights from social psychology, political science, and education to explore issues such as history education, inter-group processes and youth in post-conflict societies. His recent publications include Reaching Peace by Teaching the War: How History Teachers in Kosovo Teach About the Kosovo War? (2022); The Next Generation: Nationalism and Violence in the Narratives of Serbian Students on the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2022); Controversy in The Classroom: How History Teachers in The Western Balkans Approach Difficult Topics? (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020). He is currently involved in the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (UN IRMCT) outreach program.

Jan-Christian Wilkening is working as a research assistant in the Department of History Education at the University of Cologne. He is a PhD candidate writing his thesis on “Historical Thinking and Learning of Students with Intellectual Disabilities: Participatory Practices of an Inclusive History Education”. As part of a scholarship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he spent time at Indiana University (USA) during his PhD. He is receiving the HISTOLAB Fellowship sponsored by the Council of Europe to research pathways towards a more inclusive public history. Jan-Christian‘s research primarily focuses on inclusive history education, public history, and historical thinking.

Dea Marić teaches graduate-level courses on History Teaching at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is a PhD candidate at the same institution, and her proposed doctoral research deals with youth representations of national history. Her main research interest is the social role of history education in the context of post-conflict societies. She was a stipend of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. She is a board member of the Croatian History Teachers Association and an active member of the European History Educators Association (EUROCLIO).