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.