Dr. Pavel Kladiwa wrote his dissertation on the topic “The formation of the civic society in Moravian Ostrava (2001). His habilitation is titled “The local self-governments in Moravia during the Cisleithanian era” (2008). He works as a professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). His last finished projects are “The transformation and social activation of rural areas in Moravia and Austrian Silesia 1861-1914,“ and „The nationality in the censuses of the Czech Lands between 1880 and 1930 (disputes, polemics, conflicts)“. His current project „The Moravian Compromise as a Laboratory for the Nationalization of Politics and Law: The National Partitioning of Moravia’s Towns, 1905-1914“ is devoted to the practical impacts of the system of non-territorial autonomy for the Moravian towns. His three-week research stay is sponsored by ENTAN in the framework of a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM).