Priya Vijaykumar Poojary is a Lecturer at Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES), MAHE. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from MAHE, Manipal and a second Master’s in International Relations from Metropolitan University Prague (MUP). Her teaching and research interests include European politics, policy-making in the European Union, the EU’s foreign policy, India-EU relations, EU-Asia relations, and Higher Education Regionalism. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies titled The Dynamics of Higher Education Regionalism in Europe and Asia. She has been a visiting fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and a beneficiary of Erasmus+ teaching mobilities at various European universities. Ms Poojary has worked as a Schuman Trainee at the Directorate-General for the External Policies of the Union-Unit for Asia, Australia and New Zealand (AANZ), European Parliament, from October 2022 to February 2023. She is also the Coordinator of the Centre for Education Research (CER) at MAHE, Manipal.