The European Policy Innovation Council (EPIC) is a community of thinkers, leaders, and innovators who are ready to take the conversation out of committee rooms and policy papers and into the streets, in classrooms, and in the palm of your hand. By combining traditional think tank outputs—like research papers, policy labs, and conferences—with dynamic digital engagement and policy outreach, EPIC connects real people with real solutions, making European politics accessible, relatable, and impactful for all.

European Democrat Students (EDS) as a pan-European center-right student and youth political association is the official student organisation of the European People’s Party (EPP). Founded in Vienna by Scandinavian, German, and Austrian students in 1961, our organisation represents over a million students and young people in 39 member organisations from 33 countries in Europe. This makes us the largest youth organisation in Europe.

EURODORICA Consulting is an innovative freelance activity focused on consultancies in the field of public relations, projects, communication and strategy, as well as in the organization of conferences and fairs, mainly in Athens, Brussels & Ancona.

Management of Euronews Polls Centre about European elections, National elections, and key issues for Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece & Malta.- Develop and maintain Euronews Polls Center platform guidebooks and briefings;- Poll information gathering and management;- Provide written analysis based on polling data, political trends, and other unique findings.

Dep. International Secretary

Faculty of Letters, Translation, and Communication.

(in charge of EDS-USA relationship, membership applications & communications / social media)

(for the Working Group of the European Elections 2019)

Computational Stylistics Lab at the Department of Italian Language and Literature. During his stay in the Lab of Dr. Mikros, Kessidis was engaged in the first crowdsourced project for enhancing the Hellenic Parliament document processing pipeline. As a member of the Computational Stylistics lab, he also participated actively in the formation of a spin-off research team (Hellenic OCR Team) which digitizes large corpora of parliamentary texts and participated in all of its meetings and workshops.Moreover, helped in the organisation of three workshops. More specifically:• “Introduction to Machine Learning applied to text analysis using R”, co-organized by theComputational Stylistics Lab and the Multimedia and Language Processing Lab(Department of French Language and Literature, NKUA) on 12 – 13 December 2018.• “Machine Learning for Linguists”, organized by the Computational Stylistics Lab on 27,28 & 30 November 2018.• “Recent Trends in Quantitative Linguistics”, co-organized by the Computational StylisticsLab and the Phonetics and Computational Linguistics Lab (Department of Linguistics,NKUA) on 27 March 2019.Furthermore, assisted in the Lab’s website development and update and its social media presence.