He has taught courses on EU negotiations, EU institutional dimension and functioning mechanisms, Global Ethics, or Research Methods at universities in Belgium (VUB, Vesalius College) and the Netherlands (Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam). He conducts his doctoral research at Leiden University in the Hague, focusing on the education-diplomacy nexus, by evaluating the European Union’s emerging role as a diplomatic actor in global higher education. Silviu has been involved in different capacities with transnational education and research associations such as the Transatlantic Consortium for European Union Studies and Simulations – TACEUSS (Faculty Advisor), the European Consortium for Political Research (Consultant and Chair of the Teaching and Learning Politics Standing Group), the European Conference on Teaching and Learning Politics, International Relations, and European Studies – EuroTLC (Chair).