Kateryna TrymaKateryna Tryma Guest Researcher of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Previous to this job, she was the Senior Researcher of the Unit for Cooperation between Universities and Society, Institute of Higher Education, NAESU. Her responsibilities inclued enhancing the learning environment through instruction, applied research, and service that support the institutional mission. Before becoming Senior Researcher she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Mariupol State University in Mariupol. She gained broad theoretical, practical, and teaching experience with specializations in the following areas: global civil society and global democracy, NGOs, e-civil organizations, and information security. Kateryna got PhD in Political Sciences in 2011, the thesis theme: “Globalization as a factor for the transformation of Ukrainian civil society (NGOs analysis)”. She is a contributor to more than 100 research works. She has 2 Masters degrees: Company Economics, Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. I.Tugan-Baranovsky, Kryvyi Rih, and International Relations, Mariupol State University (2005). Scientific interests: NGOs, civil society, the European Union. Read More Read Less