2020

Co-investigator GCRF 'Conflict Intersections' Global Partnership Development Awards for the research project, under AHRC, entitled ‘Included Outside: interventions for a more inclusive public realm in conflict settings’ in a team with University of Sheffield, Goldsmiths University, American University of Beirut, NDU, and Public Works NGO, Lebanon: 198,395.64 GBP of which 198,374 GBP is for NDU. (Application approved). [Project cancelled by GCRF, funding cuts for ODA, affecting UKRI Councils including AHRC- during covid-19]

2023-2026

Co-applicant at Aalto University as main coordinator of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (TG PSUC) for the Erasmus application for cooperation partnership in higher education titled ‘Education in living labs: Participatory skills for sustainable urban governance – PS-U-GO’ (https://www.psugo.eu/) is led by the University of Cyprus with partners from universities, research institutes, NGOs in Germany, Italy, Belgium and Croatia, and the AESOP TG PSUC coordinators, about 400,000 EUROS. (Project launched December 2023 expected duration until 2026).

2021

Co-applicant DAAD ‘Ta’ziz Partnership for Democracy’ programme line 2: short-term measures with Prof. Frank Eckardt and other colleagues, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany: 40,000 EUROS. (Application approved).

2021

Co-applicant Creative Europe Programme (CREA), project entitled ’LINA: Learn,

Interact, and Network in Architecture’ in a consortium coordinated by Matevž Čelik Vidmar, University of Ljubljana: 2,100,000 EUROS. (Application approved).

Fluent in English, Arabic and Bulgarian (mother tongues), good in German and French, basic A1 Finnish.