Mihaela Daciana Natea is a Jean Monnet Professor. Her research focuses on political reconstruction in Eastern Europe and disinformation. She is the director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on European Security, and she is an expert on the EU working Group on Science Diplomacy. Maria Costea is a scientific researcher with the Romanian Academy Institute in Targu-Mures, historian, member of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on European Security and Disinformation in Multicultural Societies. Simion Costea boasts a remarkable academic trajectory, having served as a Jean Monnet Professor, historian and expert on EU Foreign Affairs and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission in Brussels.