Abir is a coordinator and lecturer at the University of Mannheim. Employed at the Dean’s Office of the School of Humanities, she is the academic advisor for incoming students and the coordinator of virtual mobility, a position that has been created to advance virtual collaborations and virtual exchange on an international scale. Since her employment, the School of Humanities has realised a virtual course catalogue to increase inclusivity, as well as COIL projects with the U.S. and Sweden.
She is also active as a teacher in International Cultural Studies, which she considers a profoundly productive extension of her background in Literary Studies, where she is working on a PhD on Contemporary British Drama.

Prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers, methodology specialists and education policy makers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established the national network for distance and e-learning in the country, then Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning association (2010), she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in Lithuania and Europe, introducing many innovations in different education organizations from school, VET, adult learning and higher education sectors. Her main concern at Vytautas Magnus University is to direct Institute activities to implement its mission: to advise University teachers to design distance learning and teaching (DL/T) curriculum, to ensure DL/T quality, to get DL/T curriculum quality assurance at University, to organize online studies successfully, and to ensure DL/T accreditation and quality assurance at the national and international level.

Aleksandra is a policy and project officer in EQAR. She is responsible for the general maintenance of DEQAR, contact with QA agencies, handling questions from end users and maintaining the data on higher education institutions. She holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University “SS. Cyril and Methodius”-Skopje and a master’s degree on educational policies and development from the University of Oslo, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Malta. Before joining EQAR, Aleksandra worked as a consultant at the OECD’s Directorate for Education and Skills.

Alexander Mühle is a PhD student at the Hasso Plattner Institute in the department for internet systems and technologies. He completed his BSc and MSc in Computer Science at the Technical University Berlin with a focus on distributed systems and networks.

His research interests centre around aspects of security and privacy in peer-to-peer applications as well as self-sovereign identity management.

Amelie Ries works as research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. She supports the International Research Project and the communication as well as the organization with partner universities, is available as contact for the students and takes care of the adaption of the course. She studied journalism in Magdeburg in her bachelor’s degree and is currently in her master’s degree in journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Ana-Maria Simionovici has been working for the University for Continuing Education Krems (UWK) since 2019, with the task of establishing and implementing an independent central organizational unit for the development of international relations for and with the university. After studying in Canada and Austria as well as after years of professional experience on two fronts (internationalization and academia) in the university context, she now dedicates herself exclusively to her professional goal at the UWK, namely to work, support, and shape in and for internationalisation.

András Lichtenstein, LL.M. is a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Procedure at the University of Szeged (Hungary) and is specialized in Hungarian, European and Comparative Criminal Procedure. He graduated in Law with a major in Criminal Justice and holds a joint Master’s (LL.M.) in German Law and Legal Translation from the Universities Potsdam and Szeged. He is a Digital Training Coordinator at the Faculty of Law, and a Member of Management and Academic Staff of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education „DIGICRIMJUS: New challenges for teaching researching and practicing criminal law in the digital age”.

Andrea Pfeil is the Head of Language Department North West Europe at the
Goethe-Institut London. She received her MA degree in adult education, communication studies and German as a foreign language at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany. Her other academic achievements include an MA in management of education from the University of Education in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She taught for a number of years at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and attained the position of Language Course Director before taking the position of Multimedia Coordinator, Deputy Head of the Multimedia Department at the Goethe-Institut’s head office in Munich, Germany. Since 2000, Andrea Pfeil has held a number of academic positions as a German teacher beginning with Beijing University in China. She then held DAAD lecturer positions at Manchester, Strathclyde, and Glasgow Universities and a position as Teaching Fellow in German at the School of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Glasgow. From 2014 to 2021 Andrea Pfeil was Director of Language Department at the Goethe-Institut in New York.

Andrea Schwandt is a research assistant at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University in the fields of digital and analog design. She has been a key developer of the FPGA Vision Remote Labs and is engaged in learning analytics for online learning. Since the summer term 2019 she organizes and instructs the FPGA Vision Open Online Course.

• 25 years old
• graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld with a master's degree in Computer Science in spring 2022
• since been involved in funded research projects to develop and improve learning concepts for programming methodology subjects. The focus is on self-paced learning, game-based learning and OER.

Anna-Lena Brown is a digital learning expert at the University of Education Freiburg / Germany. After receiving a teaching degree from the University of Mannheim, she gathered experience in the field of online and technology-enhanced learning while working as a software trainer and instructional designer. She is currently pursuing an MA in "E-Learning and Media Education" from the University of Education in Heidelberg.

Anna Lysyanskaya is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, which she joined in 2002 after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT. A theme of her academic research is on balancing privacy with accountability, and specifically allowing users to prove that they are authorized even while not revealing any additional information about themselves. Professor Lysyanskaya is a recipient of numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, as well as industry grants from IBM, Google, and Facebook. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) since 2012, and will serve as co-Chair of the annual Crypto conference in 2023.

Since 2020 liveSciences³ IMKD project coordinator at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; passionate about designing open international learning opportunities and facilitating student mobility with digital services.

Annika Kolb is a professsor for English language teaching pedagogy at the University of Education in Freiburg. She holds a PhD from the university of Hamburg and has taught English in Germany and Spain.

Ann-Kristin Matthé is the Head of Section Digitalisation for Internationalisation, Universities of Applied Sciences at the DAAD Headquarters in Bonn. Since 2019/20 this section manages the DAAD programmes International Mobility and Cooperation through Digitalisation (IMKD), International Programmes Digital (IP Digital) and IVAC (International Virtual Academic Collaboration). Ukraine digital is the newest addition to the programme portfolio. With a background in public policy and international relations she is convinced of the added value inherent in digitalising the international student journey.

Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is Associate Provost for Academic Programs, a Louis Thompson Distinguished Undergraduate Teacher, and Professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University. Her experience promoting excellence in higher education leadership is long established. She recently completed her term as president of the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture organization. She has presented original scholarly work on Creating an Inclusive Classroom to several regional and national audiences consisting of academic administrators and other higher education professionals. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Horticulture Science, an award-winning teacher, and co-author of three textbooks.
Associate Provost VanDerZanden’s purview includes providing leadership related to accreditation, diversity and inclusion in the classroom, distance education, international programs, and high impact practices. She is part of the enrollment management executive team and helps provide a pathway for students from admission to graduation.

Anselm Böhmer is a professor of General Education at Ludwigsburg University of Education (D) since 2016 and has held professorships at two other universities in Germany before. His research focuses on General Education, education in late modernity, diversity & inclusion, (forced) migration, and education & social differences.

Aune Valk (PhD in Psychology) is currently vice-rector for academic affairs at the University of Tartu, Estonia. In years 2008 – 2014 she was Estonian national project manager for OECD survey of adult skills – PIAAC, coordinating also national PIAAC research programme that resulted in seven thematic reports. In 2014 – 2018 she was working as a head of the analyses department in the Ministry of Education and Research providing educational and research-policy making with data, statistics and studies. Her earlier positions include being researcher in different institutions and being director of Open University – the brand for adult education at the University of Tartu. She has numerous publications on cross-cultural psychology and education.

Avinash is a Design Thinking Practitioner at HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam, Germany. He studied Computer Science and Engineering for his bachelors, Public Management for his masters and basic and advanced design thinking course at the HPI-D school. Over the last 8 years, Avinash led a wide range of sustainability initiatives through a nonprofit organisation in India and a hospitality brand in the Maldives. Currently, together with the team at HPI D school, Avinash contributes to an EU-wide digital education program.

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With 20 years of experience in international academic credential evaluation, Beka has a deep knowledge of international education systems and the issues surrounding recognition of international academic credentials. He frequently presents on the education systems of countries around the world and the recognition of international credentials at national and international conferences and workshops. He also has extensive experience working with licensing bodies and higher education institutions providing expert opinion vis-à-vis credential evaluation.
Beka’s many experiences include collaborating with the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada to improve the consistency and portability of credential assessments conducted in Canada, as well as assisting the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC) with the development of the Pan-Canadian Quality Standards in International Credential Evaluation.

Belen Zevallos is a Peruvian-Portuguese architect based in Germany. She holds a Master in Architecture from the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (Portugal). She has also studied at PUCP (Peru), and Yildiz Technical University (Turkey). She was part of the transdisciplinary research „Reallabor STADT-RAUM-BILDUNG“ funded by The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg. Since 2019 she is the project coordinator of several DAAD funded projects. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Minho and working as a Research Associate and Teaching Assistant at the School of Engineering and Architecture of SRH University Heidelberg.

Berit Eika became Prorector for Education at Aarhus University on 1 June 2014, and works with the University´s strategy and policies for education and chairs the committee of education. Before moving to this position, she was vice-dean at the Faculty of Health, a position held since 2011. As vice-dean, she attained the responsibility of developing medical teaching and education, which e.g. led to the establishment of the AU Centre for Health Sciences Education.
She graduated as a medical doctor (MD) in 1986 and received her PhD degree in 1994 from Aarhus University. From 1996 Berit Eika took on the position to revise the AU degree programme in Medicine. In 2005 she became the first Danish medical professor of Health Education and has supervised numerous successful PhD students in Aarhus, and has been an external examiner on PhDs at various universities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

After studying educational science at the University of Regensburg, with experience in the Balkan states, Bernadette Gruber worked as a lecturer for the Robert Bosch Stiftung in China. In addition to her teaching activities, she organised an international conference on digitalisation in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute and the DAAD in Beijing. Freelance work brought her to Berlin in 2019, where she is finishing a part-time distance learning program at the University of Hagen in eEducation: Education and Media. Since 2020, she has been involved in the student community of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD). In addition she is working for CODE University of Applied Sciences in a research project on digital inclusive education.

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Brandon Muramatsu builds connections at the intersection of learning, technology, innovation and scale. He has been involved in the development of learning and education technologies, learning technology standards, curriculum and courses, open education / open educational resources and educational digital libraries over the last 25+ years. Mr. Muramatsu works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he leads the development of the open source Learner Credential Wallet for digital academic credentials and works with institutions to deploy the digital credentials infrastructure for their students.

Research Assistant, TIB - Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology | University Library

Carlos Alario-Hoyos holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Telematics Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Carlos Delgado Kloos received the PhD in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München and in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is Full Professor of Telematics Engineering at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is the Director of the GAST research group, Director of the UNESCO Chair on “Scalable Digital Education for All”, and Vice President for Strategy and Digital Education. He is the Coordinator of the eMadrid research network on Educational Technology in the Region of Madrid and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been the Manager of ICT research projects at the Spanish Ministry and has carried out research stays at several universities (Harvard, MIT, Munich, and Passau). His research interests are in Educational Technology. He has been involved in a large number of research projects, published around 500 articles in conferences and journals, written a book and co-edited over a dozen. He has coordinated MOOCs and is promoting the of digital micro-credentials in Spain through the project CertiDigital (certidigital.es).

Chahira Nouira is currently working at the University of Göttingen, Germany as an Instructional Designer. Almost 15 years ago, Chahira has started her career as an educational technologist. While working at the United Nations University (UNU), she contributed to a few European projects about Open Educational Resources for European Universities and Virtual Mobility. The focus of her work is the development and implementation of methods and tools that help teachers and students strengthen their digital competences and enhance collaborative teaching and learning. Since December 2016, Chahira has been a member of the Digital Learning and Teaching team at the University of Göttingen. She first worked for the “Internationalisation of the Curricula” project and helped with the successful implementation of more than 30 digital and collaborative teaching initiatives. Since April 2020, Chahira has been in charge of Digital Teaching and Learning in the DAAD funded IMKD project ´liveSciences³ – Transnational and Digital Linked Life Sciences`.

Chaminda Hettiarachchi is a Co-Founder and a Director at FabLanka Foundation, a Social Enterprise working on Industry 4.0 technologies including 3-D Printing for socio-economic development in Sri Lanka. Chaminda is also the CEO/Managing Director at Dil Consultancy, a research and management consultancy company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He teaches project management, strategy and e-business as a visiting lecturer for postgraduate programs at University of Colombo and University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.
Chaminda has been the Sri Lankan coordinator for IVAC Project (2021-2022) on Interactive digital simulations on digital transformation management between Hochschule Esslingen, Germany and University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Chaminda is a B.Sc. (Engineering) graduate from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1996). He has an MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan (2001) and an MBA (International Industrial Management) from the Graduate School of Esslingen University of Applied Sciences (FHTE), Esslingen, Germany (2002).

Channa van der Brug contributes to the sharing of effective practices and to increasing opportunities for collaboration as the HFD’s International Programme Manager. She has 15+ years’ international experience in the education sector and a passion for the role of technology in shaping the future of education. Prior to joining the organisation in June 2022, she worked as a Conference Programme Director at a leading global event on digital learning & training. Channa has been a Academic Representative at two publishing companies as well, and has worked at universities in Denmark and in the Netherlands, where she studied at Utrecht University.

Christien Bok is Innovation manager education at SURF. She aims to support collaboration between higher education institutions in the field of IT innovation in order to improve student success and the quality of education. She is an advocate for the protection of public values in education and research. She is convinced that international agreements on standards and architecture are a key to organizing education efficiently and flexibly, nationally and across borders. Christien designed various national innovation programs, including the Acceleration Plan (16M) and the Digitization Impulse for Education (600M). Christien studied Dutch literature at Utrecht University. She worked for the Dutch Foundation for Literature and at The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). At NWO she was responsible for a research program in which IT researchers and heritage managers worked together to make heritage available digitally.

Daniel is pursuing his PhD research in the field of IT-Security education and awareness at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute.

The Digital Campus project team consists of members from the following partner organizations: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), RWTH Aachen University, TH Lübeck University, the Society for Academic Study Preparation and Test Development (g.a.s.t.) and the Goethe Institute.

Dr Dorit Bosch is the host of the podcast "Let's State - Inspirations from the State Apparatus", a coach for the transformation of administrations and has been a federal civil servant for 12 years. Her mission is to make public administrations more agile, open and creative. To achieve this, a cultural change is needed in Germany. She is convinced that the modern person needs more flexibility and creativity in their job and in education if they are to face the many challenges of our time. Public administrations have the task of creating the right conditions for this to happen.

Dr Anja Peters studied English, German and American Studies in Frankfurt, Southampton und Minneapolis. After completing her PhD, she worked as lecturer at several universities in the U.K. She joined g.a.s.t. in March 2018 in the role of expert for language testing. Currently, she is responsible for the reading and writing sections of the paper-based TestDaF, the development of preparation materials for the digital TestDaF as well as running training workshops on topics related to test development and rating.

For the past 20 years I have designed learning experiences, taught at undergraduate and graduate level and researched various topics related to management and business in international settings. I started my journey at Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania) and later on, collaborated with Virtus e-learning platform (Germany), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), Vidzemes Augstskola University of Applied Sciences (Latvia), the Centre for Rural Development from Humboldt University (Germany) and Gisma Business School (Germany) for courses on intercultural competences, human resources management in events, digital tools for training and product management. A few years back I have also discovered the world of user interface design and user experience design through a bootcamp course that approached learning in a different manner. I am particularly interested in behavioural economics and sustainability, technology and their connection to learning. Reach out on Linkedin if you think I can support you on your journey.

Dr. Claudia Nicolai is the academic director of the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam/Germany. She studied Business Administration, Economics, and Social Sciences and got her Ph.D. in Strategic Management at the University of Potsdam. Since 2010, Claudia has designed the educational programs and research activities at the HPI D-School. She has co-developed the d-school in Malaysia (genovasi) and the HPI d-school at the University of Cape Town, as well as the biothinking program at the Charité. Together with her team, she is researching design & innovation management, new working environments & leadership, as well as team dynamics.

Dr Elke Mählitz-Galler is a research associate in the field of Service Learning and virtual learning scenarios at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She received her PhD in Egyptology from Georg August University, Göttingen in 2017. Since October 2021 she works in the h2d2-Project (didactically and digitally competent teaching and learning).

Dr. phil. Leon Tsvasman M.A. PhD is an experienced academic lecturer, supervisor and author, working as education consulter for several public and private Universities in Germany and USA. His actual research interests are Complexity Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology of Information, Ethics of Leadership and Innovation.His fields of Education and Experience (15+ years academic lecturing/advising/writing) were mainly focused on: Communication, Media and Information (M.A., Dr.phil./Ph.D), Second-Order Cybernetics (Dr. Phil./Ph.D), Journalism and Publicity (BA, mostly German) as well as Leadership & Management, Strategic & Creative Thinking, Intercultural Issues of Globalization (Lecturing since 2002) Social Enabling, Conceptual Arts (volunteering and curatorial projects since 2009) as well as English, German and slavic linguistics.

Ekaterina Buchminskaia is a research assistant at the Europa-Universität Flensburg since January 2022. She is also a part of the “Study as you are” (STUDYasU) project team. STUDYasU aims at investigating and testing various barrier-sensitive digital teaching and learning tools and scenarios. In 2021, she completed a MA program in linguistics with a focus on language teaching and acquisition at the University of Bremen. Her MA thesis investigated the challenges and benefits of online English teaching in tertiary education and contributed to the research field of E-Learning and digitalization in higher education.

Enrico Behne
is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School Global and Area Studies, a research assistant at the Global and European Studies Institute, both at Leipzig University, as well as Conflict Analyst and Head of the Working Group on Sub-Saharan Africa at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research. His PhD research focuses on organizational change and institutional learning at the African Union Commission in the domain of peace and security. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology (Leipzig University) and a master's degree in African Studies (Leipzig University).

Fateme Fathi is a Ph.D. candidate at the chair of information systems and databases - Computer Science 5 (i5) group at the RWTH Aachen University, with a demonstrated history of working in computer software industry and data science. She has received her bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) from the Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, and her master's degree (M.Sc.) from the University of Tehran focused on Computer Engineering - Information Systems. Currently, she is a member of the group working on the MyEduLife project and her primary focus toward her doctoral degree is on blockchain and digital identity management.

Felix Hoops is a research associate at the chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems at Technical University of Munich (TUM) since May 2021. He holds a master's degree in Informatics from TUM and wrote his thesis on "Threat Analysis, Evaluation, and Mitigation for Smart Contracts Endorsed by TLS/SSL Certificates". During his studies, Mr. Hoops spent a semester abroad at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Firas Al Laban is a research assistant at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
He holds a Ph.D. in computer science (knowledge management systems). His research interests include Ontology and digitalization at higher educational institutions. He worked as a lecturer for many courses in computer science and mathematics at different universities.
Since 2019, he has been working in the chair for Complex Multimedia Application Architectures at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Potsdam.
He is currently involved in projects mainly related to policy experimentation, digital transformation at European higher institutions and educational strategies for blended learning, virtual mobility and IT infrastructure.

Francesca Helm is associate professor of English at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova in Italy. Her research interests are in intercultural dialogue, virtual exchange and online education, language and education policies and critical internationalization studies. She is a board member of the academic organization UNICollaboration, and was responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the European Commission's Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange (EVE) project which ran from 2018 to 2020. From 2018 to 2021 she was chair of the Education Innovation Working Group of the Coimbra Group of Universities. Since 2019 she has been co-coordinator of the Italian section of the international network Scholars at Risk.

Franziska Königer is a Project Manager in the Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. Her work focuses on leading projects that strengthen the faculty's international activities and contribute to the internationalization of the university. Since 2020, she has been in charge of the cooperative mobility project FHWS Praxis International, which serves to develop strategies for the internationalization of business contacts and internships. The project was part of the DAAD funding line HAW.International (Modul A). In 2021, she started planning and coordinating the project Mobility Goes Virtual, a virtual collaboration project focusing on the implementation of a sustainable intercampus blended-learning module to be offered at three universities. The project is funded by the DAAD in the program line IVAC. Moreover, she assists in the elaboration of the application process as well as in the student support of the international Master's program in Artificial Intelligence.

Franziska Wächter, (PhD), female, is Professor of Sociology and Empirical Research Methods at Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Dresden/Germany. She studied sociology, economics and organisational psychology at the University of Munich. From 2000 to 2010, she was scientific researcher at the German Youth Institute in Munich. From 2006 to 2010, she was Professor of Sociology at the University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her main research interest is on youth and politics/ political participation and orientation, with a focus on disadvantaged young people, migrants, young people in poor neighbourhoods (social space/network analysis), media use and international relations in teaching and research at higher education institutions.

Frederic Matthé is a staff member of the Dept. Teaching and Media at the Center for Quality Development in Teaching and Studies (ZfQ) at the University of Potsdam (UP). Since 2020 he has been working as coordinator for Collaborative Online International Learning/Virtual Exchange (COIL/VE). His previous areas of work were the coorganisation of the eTEACHiNG training programme at UP, the conception and implementation of workshops and trainings for the realisation of digitally supported teaching projects for university lecturers and the advising of lecturers. He studied educational sciences with a focus on adult education/further education and media pedagogy.

Georgi Dimitrov is responsible for the Digital Education unit in the European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture. He joined the European Commission in 2008 and was first involved in various roles in setting up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). He then helped to develop and launch HEInnovate, an initiative by the European Commission and the OECD aimed at supporting universities to become more entrepreneurial. He led the development of the first Digital Education Action Plan adopted in January 2018 and also of the new Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 that was adopted in September 2020. Before joining the Commission, Georgi worked for a leading multinational telecommunication company and in a software start-up in Germany. Georgi studied at the University of Bonn (M.A.), the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (PhD) and the Open University UK (MBA in Technology Management).

Associate professor of Banking at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Adjunct professor at LUISS University and LUISS Business School
Visiting professor at Athens University of Economics and Business
Visiting professor at Georgian National University
Co-President of the European Financial Management Association

Giovanni Fonseca works as pedagogical engineer for the European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) alliance at the Centre for Quality Development in Teaching and Learning at the University of Potsdam. As part of his work, he advises and supports educators in the conception and implementation of innovative teaching-learning scenarios in the context of experimenting with various virtual mobility formats as part of the EDUC objectives.

His experience in education amounts to more than 20 years, contributing to a variety of projects, both in formal, non-formal and informal education; within various educational institutions, but also non-governmental organizations, as well as independently as an international consultant in education, sustainability, and digitalization.

Since 2011 is member of the international network ESD Expert Net, where he has coordinated together with his colleagues the Go! Global programme for international virtual school exchanges.

He has also developed an educational methodology called #OrganicLearning, which sets out some guidelines for future-proof education.

PhD. Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health, SSU (Ukraine). Guest Assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany). Founder & Head of “Bioethics” NGO. Founder of InPlatBio (inplatbio.com). Her main research areas are bioethics, integrative bioethics, public health, vulnerable populations, transdisciplinary practices, philosophy of science and philosophy of education. Works within the research group “Scientific justification of the development of the public health system and the management model of the quality of medical care”, Ukraine. Previously led a project on inclusion “Chimeras We Are” with support from the International Foundation as part of the “EU4USociety” partnership. Dr. Hubenko is the creator & host of the "Bioethics for everyone" podcast (recommended for funding by the House of Europe).

Heike Bartsch received her diploma in precision engineering (Technische Universität Ilmenau) in 1994. The research field has developed along the lines of micromechanics and systems integration. Mayor topics are glass structuring, multilayer ceramics, implementation of functional materials, and system integration. After joining a start-up, the academic career was pursued in 2005, and finished with Ph.D. in 2009 in the field of microsystems technology with a focus on ceramic MEMS.
The focus during the post-doc period at the Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®, an interdisciplinary facility of TU Ilmenau, was on ceramic MEMS and Bio-MEMS. Since 2019 she is a senior researcher in the Electronic Technology Group at the same institute with major research interests in cutting-edge micro-structuring methods for ceramic green tapes, heterogeneous systems, and ceramic MEMS involving the fields of material science and system design. Teaching activities cover the field of electronic technology.

Illie Isso has been a research assistant at the Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE) since April 2021 and is responsible, among other things, for project management in the DAAD-funded EUGEN project. Previously, he worked at LUE for the DIVA project as a project assistant. Since May 2021, he has also been a doctoral student in history at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. Previously, he completed his teacher training in history, ethics, technology and sport with the first state examination. His research interests include history, education and social inequality, diversity, inclusion and migration.

James Clay is Head of Higher Education and Student Experience at Jisc, the UK NREN, where his role is to ensure Jisc’s HE strategy meets the needs of our higher education members and UK wide funders. He has worked in the education sector since 1993 and has extensive experience in the use of technology to enhance and enrich learning. He has been a CIO, a teacher, a project director, TEL manager, libraries manager, an IT director and a senior manager. He has contributed and managed a range of projects over the years in various roles, including the intelligent campus.

Dr. Janina Hantke is the project coordinator at PIM and works closely with the participating institutions to define the processes to be digitised and to support the rollout of PIM. She has a PhD in molecular genetics and brings her own mobility experience in the UK and Australia to the project.

Jan Palmowski has been Secretary-General of The Guild since its creation in 2016. He was Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London (2008-12), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Academic Vice-President at the University of Warwick from 2013 to 2018.His wider international engagements include membership in the German Science Council’s Strategy Commission (2013-16), and the German Excellence Commission’s joint expert Group (2016-18). He currently he serves on the International Advisory Board of the Université Paris Cité (as Chair) and the Global Advisory Board of the University of Pompeu Fabra, and frequently speaks and writes about European higher education policy.

In 2012 Jelmer became lecturer of law at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He was selected as the best lecturer by students for two years in a row. In 2018 Jelmer joined the DreamApply team to support education institutions with their internationalization and digital transformation by modernizing their Student Admission Systems. Since then he has worked closely with more than 50 universities, reviewing their procedures and advising on possible improvements, leading to more than 300% growth in international student admissions.

Dr Jens Brandenburg has been Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research since December 2021.
He has been a member of the German Bundestag from the Rhine-Neckar constituency since 2017. For the parliamentary group of the Free Democrats, he was spokesperson for studies, vocational training and lifelong learning as well as spokesperson for LGBTI in the 19th legislative period. In addition, he was the representative of his parliamentary group in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment as well as in the Enquete Commission "Vocational Training in the Digital World of Work". He chaired the Education and Research Working Group of his parliamentary group.

At the University of Mannheim, he completed a B.A. degree in political science and economics (2008) and an M.A. degree in political science (2010). He completed his doctorate in 2015 at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim.

Photo: Jens Brandenburg/ Stephanie Trenz

Professor Jo Angouri is the University-level Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick, a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland and Affiliate -Visiting Professor- at Monash University. She has published extensively on Leadership, Identity, Decision Making and Problem Solving. In the last ten years she has published over 70 refereed papers, three special issues, two books, three edited volumes and two conference proceedings and is the Subject Chair for Linguistics, Language, Communication and Media on the Scopus board. Jo is a National Teaching Fellow (UK) and committed to pedagogic innovation and education for global citizenship. She has significant experience in research-led education, multidisciplinary curriculum design and undergraduate and postgraduate programme leadership. She is on The EUTOPIA University Alliance Education Team and is co-leading on the Learning Communities and Curriculum Development for the network.

Joost Kleuters is Director of the Centre for Internationalization and Languages at Rhine-Waal University of applied sciences in Kleve (Germany). Rhine-Waal has participated in an MVE project with 6 partners in 6 countries that is now in its 4th consecutive semester and has resulted in an additional MVE project sponsored through Erasmus KA226 (Strategic Partnerships in Response of the COVID-19 Situation: Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness in the field of Higher Education) called ‘Versatile’, Virtual Education Readiness Semester - Adaptive Toolbox for an International Learning Experience and coordinated by Rhine-Waal as lead partner.

Jöran Muuß-Merholz holds a master in educational management. In 2009 Jöran started his agency “J&K - Jöran und Konsorten” (“Jöran and fellows”) to strengthen the connections between the educational and the digital world.

Jöran is consulting educational organizations on how to use digital media in their work. He is writing articles both for specialized press and consumer press and sometimes for academic journals too. He is giving lectures and running workshops mostly in German-spoken countries but as well in Boston, Brno, Tokyo or Stockholm. More on Jöran’s publications, events and projects can be found on https://www.joeran.de/

Juana Salas is a project coordinator working at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (UAS) where she takes care of the DAAD-funded project „Digital Mobil @ FH Bielefeld“ that seeks to systematically combine the cross-cutting issues of internationalization and digitalization to incentivize digitally supported transnational teaching and prepare students for an increasingly globalized working environment.
Before working at UAS, she coordinated an extensive first-year program focused on mathematical, literary and data competencies as well as Peer Learning approaches, counselling, didactic courses for university teachers and student data analysis. Her scientific background is in conference interpreting and computational linguistics.

Judith Venherm is a Senior Desk Officer at the Section Digitalisation for Internationalisation, Universities of Applied Sciences. Her focus is to conceptualise and accompany the evaluation of the digital programmes and to build a community of practice among the projects. In addition, she is responsible for the supervision of the programme International Mobility and Cooperation through Digitalisation (IMKD). She has an academic background in international economics.

Dr. Julia Blandfort (Jade University of Applied Sciences), studied Romance language and literature and Management and the universities of Mannheim and Strasbourg and did a PhD in French culture and literature at the university of Regensburg. She has been working in international cooperation at Jade University of Applied Sciences since 2014 where she is also a lecturer.

Dr. S. Karin Amos, since October 2006 Professor of Education at the University of Tuebingen and since October 2013 Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. As professor of education, my focus is on international and intercultural education, my research focus is on education governance, processes of inclusion and exclusion in education. I look at how education is embedded in different societal contexts both synchronically, but also diachronically, and also at how these contexts themselves are changing. By way of example: Since the nineteenth century, from a European perspective, the main reference for education systems had been the nation-state; today this perspective no longer suffices to do justice to the complexities of the institutional and symbolic levels of education and the significant „rescoping“ and „rescaling“ of education.

Katharina Schmitt has been active in the internationalisation of universities for close to twenty years. She headed the International Office at the University of Greifswald, worked for the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University (Philadelphia) and the International Affairs Department at the University of Bonn. For TU Dresden, she established the Staff Unit Internationalisation and is now pursuing the development of a truly international, responsible campus with a committed community.

Kathleen Clancy is currently researching interoperable digital credentials for Higher Education and corresponding policy developments for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the research project DiBiHo and hosts the monthly Digital Credentials Regulars. An experienced project manager, she has previously developed a digital archive for the renowned Berliner Künstlerprogramm and worked with high-ranking international delegations from the education sector within Berlin's political landscape.

I am a research assistant at the University of Technology Ilmenau at the Virtual Worlds and Digital Games Group. I work as a virtual instructional designer in the DAAD’s IP digital project VEDIAS-VR. I graduated with a master's degree in Media and Communication Science from University of Technology Ilmenau in 2021.My work focuses social interactions in immersive learning environments using XR.

Katja Assaf has finished her studies in mathematics at TU Berlin in 2017. She proceeded to work for Siemens Mobility as a Security Expert and Productmanager, before returning to academia in 2021. Since then she has been working as a researcher for the DiBiHo project with a focus on cryptography.

(Mr) Koen Nomden is currently Team Leader for “Transparency and Recognition of Skills and Qualifications”, within the Skills Agenda Unit of the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). Before that he was a policy officer in charge of the validation of non-formal and informal learning and career guidance. Other positions he held within the European Commission were that of Erasmus Mundus Programme Manager and of policy officer in charge of setting up a European Executive Agency in charge of implementing programmes in education, training, culture and media.

Konstantina Orlandatou studied composition, music theory, piano and accordion in the Conservatory of Athens (Greece) and multimedia composition (M.A.) at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. In 2014 she completed her doctoral dissertation with the title “Synaesthetic and intermodal audio-visual perception: an experimental research” in the University of Hamburg (Department of Systematic Musicology).
Since 2018 she leads the project “Moving Sound Pictures” at the University of Music and Drama in which she uses VR technologies as an interface for art mediation between music and visual arts. Through playful actions users can interact with paintings of well-known artists of the 20th century in a three dimensional space and generate music through this interaction. Her latest interactive VR installation “SEE, HEAR, PLAY KANDINSKY!” has been exhibited this year in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Dr. Kristi Julian is a Professor and Program Director at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Julian is a founding member of the Council of Virtual Exchange (CoVE) and is currently serving as the Executive Director. Her research interests focus on interior design pedagogy, design thinking, virtual exchange, and sustainability. In addition to project coordination as the ProGlobe U.S. project partner, she has conducted feasibility studies, and exchanges in U.S., Italy, Greece, and Argentina. She is part of the MTSU Online Intercultural Exchange (MTOIE) grant initiative at San Juan Bautista University in Peru and Maza University in Argentina. She serves as a faculty mentor for the MTSU/AUK U.S. State Department grant, American-Style Higher Education in Iraq and is an advisory board member for the American University of Kurdistan Design Department. She served on the DAAD Funding Selection Committee in 2021. She is the Associate Editor, for Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences (URJHS) and is an accreditation site visitor chair.

Prof. Dr. Krisztina Karsai is the Head of the renowned Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Science at the University of Szeged (Hungary). She is an expert in European and International Criminal Law as well as in Comparative Criminal Law and is accounted for by several international publishers. She had held a Jean Monnet Chair on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice funded by the European Union (ERASMUS+ 574324-EEP-1-2016-1-HU-EPPJMO-CHAIR). In 2017 she founded the concept contest “Human-Machine-Law” focusing on various legal issues from digitalization. She teaches courses on Criminal Law and Digitalization not only in Hungary but abroad in Hungarian, German and English. Her innovative educational project on criminal cases was awarded the "Shortlisted" label on the QS Wharton Reimagine Education Award (Ethical Visualisation of Criminal Cases) in 2015. Prof. Karsai is now the leader of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Artificial Intelligence and the Law" at the University of Szeged.

Lisa Gibellino is based in the Global Cooperation Institute at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2019, where she works as an International Programmes Coordinator. The primary focus of this position is managing new and old partnerships for study abroad and exchange programmes with other higher education institutions. Being constantly in contact with partner universities around the globe fostered the development of further collaborative projects, like Virtual Exchange. This built the basis for Digital Exchange: die barrierefreie Auslandserfahrung, the first IVAC Project which Ms. Gibellino developed and led in 2020-21, followed by a second year of funding in 2021-22 for IVAC 2.0: Der Schlüssel zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Employability Skills. Both IVAC projects aimed to further develop students´ intercultural competences in an inclusive and accessible-to-all format, as well as to increase the internationalisation of SRH Berlin through digitalisation.

Malu Amanda Dänzer Barbosa is a program manager at the Stifterverband. At Hochschulforum Digitalisierung she is involved in peer-to-peer consulting on strategies for higher education in the digital age. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities at FSU Jena. She studied Egyptology and Coptology, Classical Archaeology and Theology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Marco Winzker is Vice President for Education at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University in Sankt Augustin, Germany. After studying electrical engineering and receiving his PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany he held engineering and management positions in industry. In 2004 he became professor at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, where he was associate dean of the engineering department and project manager of the university project in the German "Teaching Quality Pact".
Marco Winzker received the IEEE William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education in 2015 and an IEEE Educon Best Paper Award at Educon 2012.

Margaret Wenger has worked at Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc., a non-profit credential evaluation agency located in the US, since 1990, currently holding the position of Senior Director of Evaluation. As SDE, Meg leads evaluation policy development, new evaluator training, and coordinates quality assurance efforts. She is the author of ECE Presents: The Educational System of Tunisia and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Its Educational System and Methods of Evaluation, as well as contributing to the NAFSA Guide to Educational Systems Around the World (1998 and 2009) and other publications. She has given workshops at number of international conferences including NAFSA, NAGAP, CGS, and EAIE. She chairs TAICEP’s (The Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals) task force on Digital Student Data and serves on the board of directors of the Groningen Declaration Network.

Maria de Lurdes Martins is a faculty member at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, where she teaches English for Tourism to undergraduate students. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (2012) from the University of Aveiro. Her research interests include virtual exchange, technology in foreign language teaching/, intercultural collaboration, Web 2.0 enhanced foreign language learning, dialogical and dialectical language learning and social networked language learning. She is one of the co-founders of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange. She has been part of virtual exchange projects since 2014.

Areas of expertise: virtual mobility, digitally mediated international collaboration, international project planning and management, higher education, school education, vocational training, e-learning, language learning, languages for specific purposes.

I went to school in Scotland and studied BSc Geography at the University of Edinburgh. After some time working and travelling in Australia and New Zealand, I started my Higher Education career at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) doing student pastoral support work before moving into a Learning Development (Study Skills) role at the University of Bradford. During this time, I also completed my MSc in Psychology and developed a particular interest in supporting collaborative learning/student groupwork. After a few years abroad in Germany/Cyprus working in vocational/secondary education with the British Army, I returned to the UK to work in Outreach/Widening Participation at the University of Cambridge. In September 2020, I started as a full-time Postgraduate Research student at Coventry University. My research investigates student/staff experiences of Collaborative Online International Learning, also known as Virtual Exchange. When not working on my PhD, I love travelling and reading about current affairs/the natural world.

Märt Aro’s involvement in the field of education development dates back to his secondary school years which saw Märt organising educational events for peers on a national level.

Since 2004, Märt has established numerous organisations and companies in the area of education development.

Märt is the co-founder of DreamApply.com Student Application Management Platform, launched in 2011. DreamApply is used by more than 300 universities from across 40 countries, serving millions of users annually.

Märt is serving as Chairman of the Board at NGO Nordic EdTech Forum - N8 that brings together 200 founders of education innovation initiatives from eight Northern European countries with the aim of sharing experience and fostering cooperation.

In order to drive education forward Märt regularly collaborates with: United Nations, European Union, Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, People-Centered Internet, and many others.

Masoud Yazdanpanah is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension and Education at Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Iran.
He has over 60 peer-reviewed papers in the research area of agriculture extension and rural development, diffusion and effects of innovations, marketing and customer satisfaction, organic agriculture, education agriculture, climate change adaptation, water management and adoption of renewable energy.

Maximilian Köster is a research assistant in the Digital Mobil project at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. His work focuses on the facilitation of Virtual Exchange and digital peer learning. He previously taught German as a foreign language and worked at his university’s international office while pursuing his Master’s degree in Cultural Studies.

Dr Michael Harms is Deputy Secretary General of the DAAD. Prior to taking up the position of Deputy Secretary General in January 2022, Dr Harms held various management positions within the DAAD, most recently Director of Communications (2015-2021), Director of the Program Department South (2014), and Director of the Regional Office Cairo (2010-2014). From 2006 to 2008, he was Head of the Department for International Cooperation of the German Rectors' Conference. Dr Harms also spent several years teaching at universities in Germany (Ruhr University Bochum, 1997-1998) and the UK (University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1993-1997). Dr Harms received his doctorate in language learning research from the Ruhr University Bochum in 2003. He studied History, English language and literature, and German linguistics at the CAU Kiel.

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Michael A. Herzog is a full professor of Information Systems Engineering at Magdeburg-Stendal UAS and the head of the SPiRIT research group. His research focuses on Educational Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction, Self-adaptive Information Systems, and IT-supported Sustainability. Michael received a Ph.D. in information systems and an MSc in computer science from Technical University Berlin.

Mihaela Markovic is a Ph.D. student and works as a research fellow in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project KAVA Q (KAVA Q: digital assistance system to support virtual exchanges) and at the co-founded DAAD initiative for the Arqus European University Alliance, at Leipzig University. Since 2016 she holds a degree (diploma) in German Language and Literature and Sociology of Culture from the University Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2020 she finished her Master of Arts in German as a Foreign and Second Language at the Herder Institute, Leipzig University. Her research interests in the field of foreign language learning are computer-assisted language learning, virtual exchange, and cultural studies.

Dr. Mirjam Hauck is Associate Head for Internationalisation, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University/UK and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s HEA. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures, in virtual exchange contexts in particular. Her work covers aspects such as learner and teacher autonomy, intercultural communicative competence, and critical digital literacy. She presents regularly at conferences, seminars, and workshops worldwide.
She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL and LLT. She is a founder member of UNICollaboration.org and was a co-investigator in the EU-funded EVOLVE and ERASMUS PLUS Virtual Exchange projects. She is currently a Co-Investigator in the Marginalization and Underrepresentation in VE: causes and remedies project funded by the Stevens Initiative.

Dr. Muriel Helbig is president of the Technische Hochschule Lübeck and has served as vice president of the DAAD since 1 January 2020.
She was born in Washington, DC in 1975 and grew up in Germany, Lebanon and the USA before she began studying psychology at the University of Potsdam in 1994. She subsequently completed her doctorate in an international German Research Foundation (DFG) research training group at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (2006). Her professional stations led her via graduate funding at the University of Jena (2006-2009) to the Bauhaus University of Weimar, where she was Head of International Relations (2009-2014).

My name is Natalia.
I am studying Media Studies at Potsdam University as a DAAD scholarship holder.

I am keen on language learning and cultural exchange.
I lived in 4 counties (Russia, Norway, Denmark, and Germany) as a student or a volunteer.
I also speak 4 languages (Russian, English, German and Danish).

Navin is an international development professional with over 20 years’ experience in programme development and management in the livelihoods, health, gender, education, forestry and social development sectors. His experience spans working in countries in Southern and West Africa, South Asia, and North America. With demonstrated strong skills working and consulting in an international, multicultural environment, Navin is skilled in project management especially in participatory research, project coordination and monitoring & evaluation. An accomplished cross-cultural facilitator, he is experienced in facilitation and applying shared-learning techniques. He is enthusiastic to build effective relationships with diverse stakeholders. For his contributions to increasing the global footprint of credential evaluation, he was recently inducted into the TAICEP Hall of Acclaim, 2022.

Prof Dr. Nicola Würffel has been Professor of German as a Foreign Language with a focus on
didactics/methodology at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig since 2016. Previously, she held the professorship for Didactics of New Media at the PH-Heidelberg. Her
research focus is on the digitalisation of foreign language teaching (including blended learning, virtual reality and virtual exchanges), cooperative learning, learning strategies and the professionalisation of future teachers. Her methodological focus is on language teaching and learning and educational media research. She has been an international trainer for many years in all areas of digitalisation of foreign language teaching, blended learning and virtual exchanges.

Prof. for Business Informatics and Business Process Management (Wirtschaftsinformatik und Geschäftsprozessmanagement)
Research foci: Business process management, Ethics of digitization

Ortyom Neer is a German-university trained Field-Archaeologist who Studied Master of Art in Culture and Environment in Africa (CEA) at University of Cologne, Germany. Also has a Bachelor of Art degree in Archaeology from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria. Ortyom Neer is currently with the Department of Research, Planning and Publications at National Commission for Museums and Monuments Nigeria.

Paula Fonseca is an assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (Portugal). She holds a PhD degree in Advanced English Studies from the University of Salamanca (Spain), a Master’s Degree in Teaching Languages from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and a Master’s Degree in Education, Teaching English as a Second Language from Rhode Island College (USA). She has been teaching English and Spanish for specific purposes in higher education for over 25 years. She has collaborated in a number of international projects and has also participated in a number of international conferences. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation from the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and a member of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange (COVE: https://www.cove.education). Her research interests include: virtual exchange, technology in foreign language teaching/learning, cognitive linguistics, multimodality, political humor, academic English and religious tourism.

Petros Kavassalis is the Dean of the Engineering School of the University of the Aegean and the Director of theInformation Management Lab, i4M Lab). Petros Kavassalis holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Ph.D. from Dauphine University in Paris (Economics and Management) - doctoral programme in collaboration with Ecole polytechnique, Cenrtre de Recherche en Gestion (GRG). In the past, he worked as a Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (Centre de Recherche en Gestion), at MIT (Research Program onCommunication Policy – now part of SSRC), where he has contributed to the foundation of the MIT Internet Telecommunications Convergence Consortium MIT-ITC, and at ICS-Forth, Greece.
His interests focus on the fields of Information Management, e-Identity and Privacy Management in Federated and Self-Sovereign Environments, Blockchain and Decentralized Systems, Business Process Modeling and Automation, Document Engineering, Communications Policy and Organization of the Digital Economies.

Philipp Zagler is a research associate at the TH Luebeck for the Project MyEduLife.

Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) has been Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH HPI since 2004 and was the founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam from 2017 - 2021. He is a C4 professor of computer science and heads the Department of Internet Technology and Systems.

Meinel is, among other things, a member of acatech, the National German Academy of Science and Engineering, Governor of the Technion in Haifa, member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards, visiting professor at various universities in Germany and abroad and was Programme Director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 - 2022.

With his team, he developed the first European MOOC platform openHPI in 2012 and has since offered interactive online courses for many thousands of learners on the openHPI platform.

Prof. Dr. Jan Kratzer is the Chaired Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Founder/Academic Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) and founder/chair of the international MSc “Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability” at Technische Universität Berlin. He is in the editorial board of “Creativity and Innovation Management” (CIM), “Journal of Product Innovation Management” (J-PIM), “Sustainability” and ““Highlights of Sustainability”. His research is mainly on factors that drive sustainable entrepreneurial and innovation activities, online and offline social networks and the human side of innovations. His work has appeared among others in Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Consumer, Research, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Technovation.

Rasmus works for the organisation Stifterverband as Team Lead for the European Digital Education Hub. In this role, he manages the Community of the Hub and its working groups and workshops.
Rasmus has previously worked as International Programme Manger for Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, as Director of the Erasmus Student Network, as Secretary General of OBESSU and as International Coordinator for the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has also been Vice-President of the Lifelong Learning Platform.

Dr. Rebecca Ranz (PhD.). She is a Senior Lecturer at the Sapir Academic College in Israel. Dr. Ranz completed her first, second and third degrees in social work at The School of Social Work at Bar- Ilana University, Israel. She is the International Programs Coordinator for the School of Social Work at the Sapir Academic College. Her main areas of research are: International Social Work and Religion, Spirituality & Social Work . She has developed both classroom and virtual courses focused international social work

Regina C. Brautlacht is appointed Commissioner for Global Digital Learning and Senior Lecturer in Business Communication and Entrepreneurship at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany. She leads three virtual mobility projects (DIF, IVAC-BAIN, and Virtual Mobility for All). She is a member of the Commission for Teaching and Learning, the Commission for Quality Assurance in Teaching and the Commission for International Affairs. She has initiated the network for digital internationalization in NRW and is Deputy Director of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange (CoVE). She has served as an expert in digital learning and virtual exchanges on different panels. He holds a Master's in Media Education from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

• 2005 PhD in Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology
• Project Management at BMW and DHL
• since 2009 Head of Applications / E-Learning at Leipzig University Computing Center

Robert Schuwer is Professor of Open Educational Resources (OER) at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of ICT in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In September 2016 he was appointed Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on OER at Fontys. Since 2006 the majority of his work is about OER and Open Education. Among other activities, he was project leader in the Wikiwijs program, aiming at enhancing awareness on OER and creating a national infrastructure for OER, initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Education. Currently, he is the captain of the track “Towards digital (open) resources” in the Dutch Acceleration Plan for Innovating Higher Education using Information Technology. His current research is on enhancing adoption of OER and other forms of open online education by the early and late majority of teachers.

Rolf works for LinkedIn at the intersection of government, education and organisational learning. He is also an active member of the International Council on Badges and Credentials e.V. [ICoBC] to ensure a systemic view of badges and credentials for individuals, organisations and societies. Rolf also serves as a Council Member to the Union of International Associations, as a Council Member to the OEB Global and as a Certified Supporter to the Corporate Social Responsibility community of ZiviZ at Stifterverband (W.I.E.)."

Dr Samia Chasi is a practitioner, scholar and facilitator in higher education internationalisation. She is currently the Manager: Strategic Initiatives, Partnership Development and Research at the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper understanding and connections between diverse people and institutions by creating spaces for critical engagement and constructive dialogue. Her research interests lie in Global South perspectives on higher education internationalisation, with a particular focus on South-North collaboration and partnerships. Dr Chasi has more than 20 years of experience in international education through positions in international offices of German and South African universities, an agency of the European Commission as well as representations of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Nuffic and the British Council in South Africa.

Professor Sara de Freitas is an international author, educator and researcher with a specialism in digital technologies. With a PhD in data science, she has worked across sectors exploring how digitization and the use of digital technologies can transform lives. As a researcher and Director of Research, she has supported the foundation of the London Knowledge Lab (now UCL), established the Serious Games Institute and is currently setting up the Digital Futures Institute to push forward on the frontiers of what we know to support improved natural human computer interfaces and implement positive feedback and reward systems. In support of her theoretical studies, based on systems thinking, her field studies have focused upon quality service provision and growth in regional development. Towards that end, Sara has led academic portfolio areas in four campus-based universities, three colleges, two schools and a network of study centres in the UK, Europe and Australia, including the management and support for tens of thousands of on-campus, online and international students.

Shane has worked across multiple higher education areas including research, teaching and global engagement for over a decade. He is the Global Projects Officer for the Global Office at University College Dublin, where he manages projects connected to the UCD Global Engagement Strategy as well as key funded opportunities including Erasmus+ partnerships for cooperation. He is particularly interested in stakeholder engagement and creating opportunities for global engagement at home.

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zürn is Professor of Operations Management at the Faculty of Management and Technology and Director of the International Centre and Graduate School at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Munich and a degree in Management Consulting from the University of Wismar. Prior to his academic career, he worked for more than 20 years as a Project Manager, International Technical Consulting Manager, Plant Manager (France), Technical Director and Head of Research and Development for leading multinational companies. Dr. Zürn's academic focus and core competencies are in the areas of industrial project and quality management, operational efficiency methods, technology and R&D management, and system thinking modelling. He is the owner and scientific director of the act.if Consulting Group, which specialises in the development of business games and consulting with a focus on digital transformation, sustainability and operations management.

Creative EdTech leader with a portfolio of diverse experiences founding and contributing to the advancement an interoperable global credentialing ecosystem across education and work through the adoption open standards.

Simone Ravaioli is currently Director of Global Ecosystem and Innovation at Parchment, the leading credentialing platform in Higher Education globally.

He co-founded and chaired the EAIE Digital Student Data Portability task force (2010 – 2014), initiative which then seeded the creation of the Groningen Declaration Network.

He currently Co-Chairs the W3C Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force (2021 - ) and contributes various open standards communities across various Standards Developments Organizations.

Simone served as an expert the inaugural EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum and is a current member of the ESCO Maintenance Committee

Currently serves in the Advisory Board of the Open Recognition Alliance, Erasmus Without Paper and Learning Economy Foundation.

Simone is a Kernel Fellow (KB7) and a self-proclaimed Serendipity Engineer.

Simon Hachenberg is a research assistant at the Europa-Universität Flensburg since April 2022. He works in the “Study as you are” project which aims at investigating and testing various barrier-sensitive digital teaching and learning tools and scenarios. From 2018 to 2022, he worked at the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Usability and investigated how the learning process could be integrated into the working process. At the same time, he designed and supervised a service office for E-Learning at the NORDAKADEMIE, a private university near Hamburg.

Sonja Zimmermann is the Head of Product Development with a focus on testing at g.a.s.t. She has over 15 years of experience in language testing and assessment, mainly for productive skills. Before joining g.a.s.t., Sonja worked as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service in the Russian Federation. She recently finished her PhD on integrated writing assessment at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Carreer have been started with professional training and couple of years with professional experience. In 2006 start with undergradute study in Engineering at University of Wismar and subsequently postgradute degree course in Operation and Managament of Maritime Systems. With finishing the study starts the academic carreer at Universtiy of Wismar. The responsibilty was focused on development, establishing and consulting of international degree courses prior in Indonesia. These courses are:
* Bachelor Marine Engineering
* Master Marine Engineering
* Bachelor Nautical Sciences/Transport Operations
Additional interests; member of Maritimes Cluster Nordeutschland e.V., Expert group in ship efficiency. Our aim is the decarbonisation of seaborn transport.

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Hochschule Wismar
University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design
Department of Maritime Studies, Systems Engineering and Logistics

Susanne Grimm is a research associate at the the Education Information Center (IZB), DIPF. As editor at the German Education Server, she is responsible for the continued operation of OERinfo, the information center OER. From 2017 to 2021 she worked as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) involved in the development of the OERinfo portal as a transfer partner for the field of vocational training. She studied Multilingual Communication (B.A.) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Sustainable Development Cooperation (M.A.) at the TU Kaiserslautern.

Susanne Staude completed her studies in Special Environmental Engineering at Brunel University in the UK. After graduating, she worked in the United Kingdom and Germany as a R&D engineer in the automotive industry before transferring to the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne in 2003. From October 2006 to October 2010, Susanne Staude was a research assistant at the Chair of Thermodynamics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
In February 2011, she completed her doctorate at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the topic of "Mechanistic Investigations on Premixed Laminar Flames" and has been Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Energy Machines at the Institute of Energy Systems and Energy Economics at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences since March 2011.
In October 2015, she was appointed Vice President for Teaching and Learning, and in 2018, she was appointed state appointee to the position of President at Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences.
In September 2019, the university electoral assembly elected Prof. Dr.-Ing. Susanne Staude as president.

Sushumna is an OER practitioner and advocate. She developed the OE4BW Course (Creating Interactive
Content in Moodle) and founded the H5pCatalogue, to offer an opportunity to teachers to repurpose OER and publish Interactive content. In addition, she is a Moodle Certified Educator - Providing consultation services for e-content development and Moodle administration.
Currently Sushumna is associated with Ethiraj College For Women (Chennai India) as a LMS advisor and associated with MERLOT-SkillsCommons H5P Initiative as Senior Instructional Designer. She conducted hundred plus National Workshops and Training sessions on EdTech tools and technologies and volunteered as an EdTech Trainer for KBR and HL Foundation Faculty Trainings and workshops.

Taskeen Adam is an Associate Manager with Open Development & Education and a Senior Research Lead at EdTech Hub. She specialises in topics such as tech-supported teacher professional development, virtual learning environments and open education. She completed her PhD on ‘Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised South African youth’ at the University of Cambridge. Her research highlighted that historical injustices, cultural imposition, and economic dependence continue to play a pivotal role in education. Her MPhil thesis focused on the ‘Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child project in Rwanda’. Alongside her academic pursuits, she pioneered Khwela (a regional online course platform) and Solar Powered Learning in South Africa as well as Mobile Education for Smart Technology in India. Prior to her career shift to EdTech, she worked as an electrical engineer, specialising in measurement and control.

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Twitter: @TaskeenAdam @opendeved

Biographies:
Thomas Podlaha studied Psychology at the University of Trier and joined g.a.s.t. in 2019 as research scientist. He is now part of the team working on psychometrics, evaluation and data analysis. Responsibilities there include psychometric-statistical analyses and the determination of test results.
Daniel Wegener studied Psychology at Saarland University. Initially working professionally in the field of clinical psychology, he has been working at g.a.s.t. since September 2019. There he is part of the team for the development of psychodiagnostic products, in particular the TestAS aptitude test.

Thomas Weko is the head of the Higher Education Policy team, and has worked with many of the OECD's higher education systems. Before joining the OECD he served in the US Department of Education, first as Associate Commissioner for Postsecondary Education at the National Center for Education Statistics, and then as Director of the Policy and Program Studies Service. Prior to serving in the US Department of Education he held positions with the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, the US Government Accountability Office, the UK Higher Education Policy Institute, and as a university professor.

How is trust created between buyers and sellers on the Internet? Professor Dr. Timm Teubner, newly appointed to Technische Universität Berlin and the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), conducts his research into this question from a perspective informed by sociology and economics. From 2004 to 2010, Teubner studied industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he also completed his doctorate and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher. He spent one year studying at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in the USA. Professor Teubner, Chair of Trust in Digital Services at Faculty VII, is looking forward to continuing his research into digital platforms from A (as in Amazon) to Z (as in Zalando), taking advantage of the interdisciplinary framework of the ECDF.

Tina Basner works at the CHE - Center for Higher Education Development as a project manager for the German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age. In this role, she is responsible for the Thinktank "Equity & Digital Participation" in HE. Furthermore she is developing opportunities for international knowledge exchange on good practices for digital teaching and learning. Tina studied Adult Education & Lifelong Learning at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Udbhav Tiwari is a public policy professional who works towards keeping the internet open, secure, and accessible by advocating for progressive regulations in the technology sector.

He is a public policy advisor for Mozilla, where he primarily focuses on data governance, content regulation, and connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. He was previously with the public policy team at Google and was a program manger at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in India.

Tiwari was a co-rapporteur at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and participated actively at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) work on Ethically Aligned Design (EAD). His work on mass surveillance was cited by the Justice BN Sri Krishna Committee’s Report on India’s Data Protection Law. He has been quoted as an expert in various international and domestic outlets, including the Guardian, Wired UK, BBC, Reuters, and the Times of India.

Heribert Nacken studied civil engineering (specializing in hydraulic engineering & water management, urban water management and water-energy management) at RWTH Aachen University until 1986. He completed his doctorate there at the Department of Water-Energy-Economy in 1990. Nacken became university professor at the Department of Engineering Hydrology of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in 2001. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the UNESCO International Hydrological Program and the WMO Operational Hydrological Program (IHP/HWRP). From 2005 to 2012, he also served as Dean of Studies at the faculty. Since 2010, Prof. Nacken has additionally headed the UNESCO Chair in Hydrological Change and Water Resources Management. In 2012, he was appointed Rectorates Delegate for Blended Learning and Exploratory Teaching Space and since then has been taking care of the further development of digital teaching at RWTH Aachen University.

Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás has been working as a research associate at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting as well at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies of Heidelberg University since 2016. She also coordinates the Centro de Estudos Galegos, two international masters double degrees with the Universidad de Salamanca and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the DAAD funded IVAC-project Communication and Society@Ibero-America. As a researcher she is specialized in communication and language contact in health care.

Currently being the SUGAR Network coordinator, Vanessa R. Ladino is a Colombian living for 5 years in Germany, after having studied in France and worked in the Netherlands. Having the Human-centric approach at her core, Vanessa has applied the design thinking approach in diverse contexts that go across multinationals, academia, and startups; as well as from its pure practice to its coaching and facilitation.
Besides expecting her to put all her knowledge on the table, you can also count on her listening to adapt to meet your needs, and smiling to make the exchange a joyful experience.

Wendi Hulme is a Professor in the School of Design at Fanshawe College, teaching in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program. As a registered (educator) Interior Designer with ARIDO, Wendi has 20+ years of practical experience in Canada and the USA on residential and commercial projects including retail, hospitality and corporate design. She is a Council for Interior Design Accreditation Site Visitor and LEED Accredited Professional with her research interests focused on sustainability and virtual exchange.

Yvonne Bönninger M.A. is a research associate in the project “h2d2 - didactically and digitally competent teaching and learning “ at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany. She studied “Media Education – Audiovisual Culture and Communication” at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and conducts research in the field of digitality and education.