Vasiliki Triga
Dr. Vasiliki Triga holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 until 2011 she worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Zurich. She has been teaching as a temporary lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHz). Before, she has been a visiting fellow at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (LAIOS) at the CNRS (Paris) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Psychology). She has been appointed as an Assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests lie in the field of ICT/internet based political processes like Voting Advice Applications, Southern Politics and the Economic Crisis, Social movements and Online Collective Identities and European Referendums. She has published her research in various journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,, Southern European Society and Politics, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans etc. She is co-author of the book Referendums and the European Union: A Comparative Inquiry, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. She has been the Project Coordinator at CUT of the Horizon 2020 : “COHESIFY: The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identity” (H2020-Reflective-Society-2015/693427, 2016-2018).
Her research interests lie in the field of ICT/internet based political processes and their evolution in link with social media with a specific emphasis on Voting Advice Applications. Other areas of research include politics and political parties in Southern Europe, electoral campaigns, social movements and online collective Identities and European referendums.
Research Projects
A/A | Date | Title | Funded by | Project Role |
| 1 | 2021 – 2024 | Democratising Territorial Cohesion: Experimenting with deliberative citizen engagement and participatory budgeting in European regional and urban policies [DEMOTEC] (GA no. 962553) | Horizon 2020, SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies, European Commission | Research Team Member |
2 | 2018-2021 | RePast: Strengthening European integration through the Analysis of Conflict Discourses. Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future (G.A. no. 769252) | Horizon 2020, CULT-COOP-02-2017, European Commission | Research Team Member
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3 | 2016-2018 | COHESIFY: The impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identity (G.A. no. 693427) | Horizon 2020, REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2015, European Commission | Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package (WP 4: |
4 | 2016-2018 | NOTRE: Network for sOcial computing Research (G.A. no. 692058) | Horizon 2020, TWIN-2015, European Commission | Research Team Member & Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package (WP7) |
5 | 2014 | EUVox2014: An EU-wide voting advice application (VAA) for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament
| Open Society Initiative for Europe & DG for Communication of the European Parliament (area of internet-based activities/online media) | Research Team Member & Scientific Coordinator for Cyprus |
6 | 2012-2013 | ICTs and Social Movements: An interdisciplinary study of the organization, ideological positioning and rhetoric of online social movements | Εναρκτήρια Χρηματοδότηση ΤΕΠΑΚ | Project Coordinator |
7 | 2008-2010 | Constitutional Conventions, Direct Democracy and Institutional Change (No. 100015_120040) | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | Research Team Member
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8 | 2009-2010 | European Referendums Revisited II (No. 10015_124577) | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | Scientific Coordinator of a Working Package |
9 | 2007-2008 | European Referendums Revisited I (No. 100015_12477) | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | Research Team Member
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10 | 2006-2008 | Evaluation of the use of new technologies in political organisations in Europe (STOA) | European Science Foundation Fund (Towards Electronic Democracy (TED)) | Research Team Member
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11 | 2005-2007 | PYTHAGORAS II: Perceptions and Representations of war and terrorism in discourse. A comparative study in national and supranational context [Corporate Program Community Initiative: 01-Measure: 002-Project 326 (49) Pythagoras II – Enforcement of University Research Teams] | Ministry of Education and Religion, Greece | Research Team Member
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Journal Articles
- Triga, V. and Ioannidis, N. (2025) “The 2024 European elections in Cyprus and the rise of the YouTuber Fidias Panayiotou, 9 June 2024”. South European Society and Politics, 1-27, https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2025.2543812
- Sergidou, N., Triga, V. and Tsapatsoulis, N. (2025) “Media battles in the cybersphere: analyzing news and social media agendas during the 2015 Greek bailout referendum”. Frontiers on Political Science, Vol. 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1477767
- Spyridou, P.(L.), Triga, V. and Milioni, D. L. (2024) “Were Online Media Biased? An Assessment of Statement and Actor Bias During the 2015 Referendum in Greece”. International Journal of Communication, 18: 2317-2342, https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20521
- Triga, V., Ioannidis, N. and Djouvas, C. (2024) “The Waning of Ideology? Presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus, 5 February 2023”. South European Society and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2024.2304445
- Mendez, C., Pegan, A. and Triga, V. (2022) “Creating public value in regional policy. Bringing citizens back in”. Public Management Review, doi: 10.1080/14719037.2022.2126880
Wurthmann, L. C., Marschall, S., Triga, V. and Manavopoulos, V. (2020). “Many losers – One winner? An examination of vote switching to the AfD in the 2017 German federal election using VAA data”. Party Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820914959 - Mendez, C., Mendez, F., Triga, V. and Carrascosa, J. M. (2020). “EU Cohesion Policy under the Media Spotlight: Exploring Territorial and Temporal Patterns in News Coverage and Tone”. Journal of Common Market Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13016
- Triga, V. & Manavopoulos, V. (2019). “Does mode of administration impact on quality of data? Comparing a traditional survey versus an online survey via a Voting Advice Application”. Survey Research Methods, 13(2): 181-194, https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2019.v13i2.7392
Carrion, B., Onorati, T., Díaz, P. and Triga, V. (2019). “A taxonomy generation tool for semantic visual analysis of large corpus of documents”. Multimedia Tools and Applications, doi: 10.1007/s11042-019-07880-y - Manavopoulos, V., Triga, V., Marschall, S. and Wurthmann, L. (2019). “The Impact of VAAs on (non-Voting) Aspects of Political Participation: Insights from Panel Data Collected During the 2017 German Federal Elections Campaign”. Statistics, Politics and Policy, doi: 10.1515/spp-2018-0008
- Triga, V., Mendez, F. and Tziouvas, C. (2018). “Post-crisis normalisation? The 2018 Presidential Elections”. Southern European Society and Politics, doi: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1511347
- Milioni, D. L., Triga, V. and Spyridou, L.-P. (2018). “Cadrages Médiatiques de la Consultation Grecque sur le Plan d'aide Européen: Le Référendum Cause ou Solution de la Crise?”. Participations, 1: 111-140. (translated from English by Xavier Blandin, original title: “Framing the Greek Bailout Referendum: A Crisis-Inducing or a Crisis-Resolving Mechanism?”)
- Triga, V. (2017). “Parties and Change in Post-bailout Cyprus: The May 2016 Parliamentary Elections”. Southern European Society and Politics, doi: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1312768.
Triga, V. and Papa, V. (2015). “'The Poor have been Raped': An Analysis of Politicised Collective Identity in Facebook Groups against the Financial Crisis in Cyprus”. Cyprus Review, 27(1): 187-216. - Gemenis, K., Konstantinidis, I. and Triga, V. (2015) “Voting Advice Applications in Greece”. Science and Society, 33: 177-210. [in Greek]
Katakis, I., Tsapatsoulis, N., Mendez, F., Triga, V. and Djouvas, K. (2013) “Social Voting Advice Applications-Definitions, Challenges, Datasets and Evaluations”. IEEE Trasanctions on Cybernetics, 44(7): 1039-1052. - Baka, A., Figgou, L. and Triga, V. (2012). “'Neither agree, nor disagree': A critical analysis of the middle answer category in Voting Advice Applications”. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 5(3/4): 244-263.
- Triga, V. (2011). “Social protest through Facebook in the Greek context: The case of the 'I don't pay' movement”. Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society, 2(1-2): 51-73.
Mendez, F. and Triga, V. (2009). “Constitution-making, constitutional convention and conflict resolution: Lesson drawing for Cyprus”. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 11(4): 363-380. - Mendez, F., Mendez, M. and Triga, V. (2009). “Charting the rise (and fall?) of Direct Democracy in the European Union: How comparative federalism can help us understand the interplay of direct democracy and European integration”. Revista de Ciencia Politica, 29(1): 57-83.
Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis title |
PhD | 2007 | European University Institute, Italy | Social and Political Science | Europe beyond Brussels: An analysis of everyday discourses in the EU agencies |
BA | 1998 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece | Psychology | - |
- CIS 104 Social Psychology
- CIS 208 Communication Research Methods II: Qualitative Analysis
- CIS 314 Politics of the Internet
- CIS 407 Research Design
Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | |
From | To | |||
| July 2021 | Today | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Associate Professor |
2015 | 2021 | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Assistant Professor |
2011 | 2015 | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Lecturer |
2009 | 2011 | University of Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | Researcher (Post-Doc) |
| 2007 | 2010 | University of Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | Research Coordinator |
| 2005 | 2007 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki, Greece | Research Collaborator |
| 2003 | 2005 | European University Institute | Florence, Italy | |
A/A | Date | Title | Awarded by: |
1 | 2002-2003 | Full-time scholarship for one-year PhD research | Ministry of Education, Italy |
2 | 2001-2002 | Full-time scholarship for inter-university post-graduate students’ exchange (at CNRS-Paris) | European University Institute, Florence, Italy |
3 | 1999-2002 | Full-time scholarship for three-year PhD studies | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ), Greece |
4 | 1999-2000 | Research Grant awarded by the European Political-Economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC) | European Commission (Targeted Socio-Economic Research) |
5 | 1998 | Honorary Award for Research in the “International Ideas Competition: Architecture and the Eradication of Poverty” | United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (in collaboration with the Union of International Associations-UIA) |
