meet the EU Media Wallet team
The team behind the EU Media Wallet consists of eight doctoral researchers from across Europe. The team has a multidisciplinary background, with experience in political and social science, international relations, psychology, economics, social data science, contemporary history, and law.
The diverse expertise of the team has helped us evaluate different aspects, possibilities, and challenges of the current information environment, and to create a proposal that could make a positive and meaningful impact on today’s challenges.
The EU Media Wallet team
by the Lake Geneva in June 2025
Members (and their home Universities) from left:
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Saoirse (University of St Andrews)
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Zoe (University of Luxembourg)
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Dylan (University of Oxford)
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Kledian (Charles University and the University of Copenhagen)
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Topi (University of Helsinki)
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Ilona (Jagiellonian University)
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Babette (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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Ömer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Europaeum Scholars Programme
EU Media Wallet was developed with funding from the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership initiative. It brought us, an interdisciplinary group of doctoral candidates from seven European universities, together to work collaboratively on a European policy problem we believed required urgent action. Our group shared a common interest in disinformation and the media, yet we arrived in Brussels with very different visions of what that meant. Europaeum is a network of 18 leading European universities.
Acknowledgments
We were fortunate to hear from the brilliant and inspiring Joe McNamee, senior policy expert at the EU DisinfoLab, in Brussels 2024. We are also grateful to the twelve policy experts, NGO representatives, civil servants, journalists, publishers, and academics we interviewed as we shaped our proposals: your insights were absolutely invaluable.
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Special thanks to Tracey Sowerby for organising eight inspiring Europaeum meetings, each of which helped us transform vague concepts into a final, concrete policy proposal, and for creating such a vibrant, welcoming environment where ideas could be exchanged over good food and a glass of wine. Thanks also to Andrew Graham for encouraging us to “think big”, bringing an economic lens to our work, for his enthusiasm – and, most importantly, for the early morning swims in Geneva. We appreciate Sophie Vériter and Jonathan Brusseau’s thoughtful input and feedback on our elevator pitch in Helsinki, which helped refine the final stages of this report.
Finally, our immense gratitude goes to Claudia Negri Ribalta, for moderating debates, keeping us on schedule, and playing the devil’s advocate oh-so-well. The EU Media Wallet would have been a technical nightmare without your sharp, critical perspective.