Todor Arpad is a university lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science within the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (NUPSPA) where he is the coordinator of the Master in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development. He also works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a public policy coordinator within the POCA project, Consolidating and promoting Romania's position as a relevant actor in decision-making processes at the European level. He obtained a P.h.D in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute and a P.h.D in Political Science at NUPSPA a master's degree in political communication and electoral marketing within the SNSPA, and a master's degree in political science within the CEU. He was the country coordinator in the Willing to pay? project coordinated by Sven Steinmo at the European University Institute. He was co-coordinator of the Romania team within the EUandi project (Voting AdviceApplication) at the European Parliamentary elections in 2009, 2014, and 2019. The project, coordinated by the European University Institute (funded by the European Commission), involves analyzing the political programs on several dimensions of electoral competition for electoral competitors. In 2013-2015 he was the Executive Coordinator of the Constitutional Forum.
Helepciuc Florenţa-Elena earned a BSc and a MSc degree in plant biotechnologies from the University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest and a Ph.D. in biology from the Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy. Starting from 2006 Helepciuc Florenţa-Elena has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy in projects concerning phytopathogens biocontrol, endangered, and rare species conservation, plant and microbial secondary metabolites, and published several articles in these fields. Recently she has been involved in projects concerning public policies for sustainable development and biodiversity.