Team · Practitioners, not consultants
The AI Shield team brings together Polish practitioners of information-trust reconstruction and Armenia's security research community. We don't write about disinformation — we analyse it, and train the people who answer it on the ground.
CSIN — Caucasian Social Innovation Network · Gliwice
Analyst at INE PAN and ISP PAN (Three Seas Initiative Research Centre). Polish MFA diplomatic posting in Tbilisi. Former Frontex. Blavatnik School of Government (Oxford), PISM and European Academy of Diplomacy fellow. Law graduate, University of Silesia.
Coordination, leading Activities 1–2, co-author of the Toolkit.
Data analysis and applied-AI specialist for civic organisations. Of Armenian heritage — full command of Armenian cultural, political and linguistic context.
Co-delivery of AI modules in Activities 1–2, lead author of the Toolkit's tools chapter, Armenian-language mentoring for AIISA trainers in Activity 3.
Digital-competence trainer with nearly 1,000 instructional hours and 1,500+ people trained. KPO programme lead (6,386 local-government officials), trainer for Obywatel.IT (Polish PM's Office and Ministry of Digital Affairs), facilitator on dozens of Erasmus+ projects.
Initiated contact with AIISA in autumn 2025. Co-delivery of Activities 1–2, logistics coordination, mentoring support for AIISA trainers in Activity 3.
AIISA — Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs · Yerevan
Former Member of Armenia's National Assembly (2007–2012), delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Former chair of Armenia's Public Council (2019–2021). Senior expert at Agora Strategy Group (Berlin). Munich Security Conference, Chatham House and Wilton Park participant. Co-lead of the ongoing NATO SPS project 'Guardian AI' (EUR 80,000).
Partner coordination, security expertise, recruitment, organisation of Activity 3 and the expert panel.
Track record: Visegrad Fund 2023, NATO SPS 'Guardian AI' (ongoing), a decade of NED partnership.
Backbone of Track A. Peer review of participant reports. Local recruitment and logistics.
How AI Shield came to be
In autumn 2025, Adrian Misiak — while researching the NATO Science for Peace and Security programme — identified AIISA as the leading Armenian analytical centre combining security expertise with hybrid-threats experience. A series of working meetings with Director Safaryan from October to December 2025 confirmed the complementarity: CSIN brings AI methodology and training, AIISA brings security expertise and the Armenian network. AI Shield is the first joint project. CSIN and AIISA plan a joint NATO SPS application in 2027.