Kazimierz Musiał

Kazimierz Musial is Senior Adviser for Priority Area Regional Identity at the Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. His portfolio includes culture, youth participation and higher education in the Baltic Sea region. At the CBSS he has also led research in the Horizon Europe project We-ID “Identities – Migration – Democracy” (2025-28) and supervised an Interreg-funded project “Cultural Pearls” (2023-2025). He is currently on leave from the University of Gdańsk where until 2023 he worked as associate professor at the Institute of Scandinavian and Finnish Studies. He holds degrees in Scandinavian Studies (MA), Political Science (PhD), and Sociology (habilitation), with his academic interest focusing on higher education, science policy and international relations in Northern Europe and the Baltics. Latest topical publications include a chapter on “Regional Identity at the Critical Juncture. How the Baltic Sea Region Manages the Punctuation of the Post-Cold War Equilibrium?”, coauthored with Damian Szacawa and published in The Baltics in a Changing Europe, ed. Bhaswati Sarkar (Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024), 179–98, an article on “Internationalization as myth, ceremony and doxa in higher education. The case of the Nordic countries between centre and periphery”, in Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 9:1, 20-36, and an article coauthored in 2021 with Zane Šime, “How to build the legitimacy of regional integration on rational foundations: a case of epistemic communities in the Baltic Sea area” in Journal of Baltic Studies, vol. 52, nr 4, 483-501.