Volt EuropaVolt Europa (frequently abbreviated as Volt) is a pro-European and European federalist political party (often self-referring as a "movement"), which is organized as a pan-European umbrella for subsidiary parties of the same name and branding in all EU member states and several non-EU states (such as the UK, Switzerland, and Ukraine). Volt sets out to align its members' political positions across Europe; as such, it presented a common, pan-European manifesto for eight member states to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
Maurice VaïsseMaurice Vaïsse (born 7 May 1942 in Algiers) is a French historian specialised in international relations and Defence. He is an editorial board member on Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies. Vaïsse graduated with a History Agrégation in 1967. He has been a professor of contemporary history at Reims university, and is now a professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, where he teaches history of international relations. Since 2008, he has headed the scientific council for historical research at the Ministry of Defence.
Sylvie FaucheuxSylvie Faucheux (born 29 May 1960, in Paris) is a French professor, specializing in the economy of the natural environment and sustainable development. President of the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (UVSQ) from 2002 till April 2012, she is the current president of Université du grand ouest parisien, Professor at the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Le CNAM) from 2014 until 2017, and was Director of Academic Research and Innovation at the Research Centre of INSEEC (OMNES Education) from 2017 until 2022.
Activity theoryActivity theory (AT; Теория деятельности) is an umbrella term for a line of eclectic social-sciences theories and research with its roots in the Soviet psychological activity theory pioneered by Sergei Rubinstein in the 1930s. It was later advocated for and popularized by Alexei Leont'ev. Some of the traces of the theory in its inception can also be found in a few works of Lev Vygotsky.
Claire WolniewiczClaire Wolniewicz (born 1966) is a French journalist and writer, of Polish origin. She studied law and worked for a while in the field of intellectual property. She works as a freelance journalist, and has written TV scripts, short stories and novels. Her debut novel Ubiquité won the 2006 Prix des Lycéens Librecourt. Sainte Rita: Patronne des causes désespérées (nouvelles), Bordeaux, Finitude, 2003. Ubiquité (roman), Paris, éd. Viviane Hamy, 2005. Prix des Lycéens Librecourt 2006. Le Temps d'une chute, Paris, éd.
Jill Scott (media artist)Jill Scott (born 1952 in Melbourne) is an Australian media artist who lives in Switzerland. Her works are centered around the topics of Artificial intelligence and the impact of globalization on the human body. She has been living and working in Switzerland as an artist, professor and researcher since 2002. She founded the Artists-in-Labs Residency Program. From 1970 to 1973, Jill Scott studied art . design at the Victoria College of Advanced Education, Melbourne Australia.
Jiří TomanJiří Toman (5 November 1938 – 20 April 2020) was a Czech-born Swiss jurist and professor. He was an expert in the field of international law. From 1992 to 1998, he directed the Henry-Dunant Institute in Geneva, which he had joined in 1969. From 1998 to 2018, Toman was a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Toman studied law at Charles University in Prague from 1956 to 1961, where he obtained a doctoral degree in 1966.
François HartogFrançois Hartog (born in 1946) is a French historian. He is noted for his "regimes of historicity" theory as well as his analyses of presentism and the contemporary experience of time. Hartog is also an academic and author of several works including The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History. Hartog was born in 1946. He studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris and was part of a group of Hellenist scholars who studied under Jean-Pierre Vernant.
Jean WahlJean André Wahl (val; 25 May 1888 19 June 1974) was a French philosopher. Wahl was educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He was a professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S. from 1942 to 1945, having been interned as a Jew at the Drancy internment camp (north-east of Paris) and then escaped. He began his career as a follower of Henri Bergson and the American pluralist philosophers William James and George Santayana.
José Filipe Moraes CabralJosé Filipe Moraes Cabral (born 6 December 1950) is a Portuguese academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the Portuguese Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Cabral joined Portugal's diplomatic service in 1979. From 1982 to 1991 he worked in diplomatic positions in Portugal's missions to Canada, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the European Union. From 1992 to 1993, Moraes Cabral was an advisor to the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the European Union.
