Gianfranco Brusaporci has completed his PhD studies in Political Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain and at New Bulgarian University. His research interests range from Cross-Border Cooperation and Border Studies, to Multi-Level Governance and Regionalism, from Comparative Politics and Comparative research methods to Ethnic and Religious voting behavior, Minority and ethnic issues, Local governance and development, with a focus on South-Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He was awarded of the Central European Initiative prize (2011), the Erasmus Mundus Scolarship (2013-2014) and the Martini scholarship promoted by the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (2013).