Nadine Lobner, Master in Anthropology at the University of Lisbon, 'Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas' (ISCSP) with a research focus on global interconnections through bottom-up perspectives. She holds a Bachelor degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna with a focus on bilateral relations and epistempic violence. She has undertaken an internship at ISCSP on research and administration, through which she has learned and fulfilled all relevant tasks of paper publications in scopus journals. Throughout this internship she has published one article in a scopus journal, followed by another one in course of her research grant in the EU H2020 project 'Competing Regional Integration in Southeast Asia' (CRISEA). She has published several articles, co-edited a book on transformational movements, and co-authored a book on debating ASEAN through sociocultural perspectives. In course of her research path she has participated in international research workshops in Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, Vietnam, Nepal and Timor-Leste; within the framework of different international conferences (ItaSEAS, EuroSEAS, APA, Encontro Ciencia, Timor-Leste Stuies Association, EU-ASEAN strategic partnership, a.o.) where she continously has presented her research and widened her methodological approaches. In her PhD project she focuses on the building of international regions/Ecumenes from sociocultural perspectives, with the EU and ASEAN as main case studies.