Sylwia Romańska PhD

She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław, and Deputy Director of the Institute of European Studies. She also coordinates the Faculty’s and Jean Monnet Centre’s cooperation with high schools across Lower Silesia.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wrocław, awarded in 2023, with a dissertation on Germany’s adaptation to crises. Her research focuses on youth participation and cross-border youth engagement, European political processes, and European integration, with particular interest in the EU’s security and defence dimension.

She has received funding from the German-Polish Science Foundation, DPWS, and the National Science Centre (NCN). Her recent NCN Miniatura project examines youth participation in cross-border structures, comparing the Euroregion Viadrina and the Euroregion Baltic.

Her work has appeared in the Journal of Borderlands Studies, Studia Polityczne, and publications by Springer.