“It felt like a wonderland for me”: Edit Slezák on MIDAS’s journey over a quarter of a century

This year, three long-standing and distinguished figures stepped down from the MIDAS Governing Board: Bojan Brezigar, Toni Ebner and Edit Slezák. All three played a key role in shaping MIDAS since its foundation in 2001. Hatto Schmidt interviewed each of them.

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Journal
Eurac Research Blogs
Published
2025-06-24
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https://doi.org/10.57708/bwkjux-20qz-4ynguvo0kqg
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Eastern European Communism and Reforms
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“It felt like a wonderland for me”: Edit Slezák on MIDAS’s journey over a quarter of a century

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“It felt like a wonderland for me”: Edit Slezák on MIDAS’s journey over a quarter of a century

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Abstract

This year, three long-standing and distinguished figures stepped down from the MIDAS Governing Board: Bojan Brezigar, Toni Ebner and Edit Slezák. All three played a key role in shaping MIDAS since its foundation in 2001. Hatto Schmidt interviewed each of them.

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