Partners in Learning 2012 - best off third day
JUDGES BY COUNTRY
Bajame Allmeta – Albania
ICT Expert in E-education, Department of ICT in Education & Statistics
Coordination, implementation, monitoring various projects in field of ICT, in the framework of Excellence and Equity Education, as well as other projects undertaken by MoES with local and international partners
Ruth Sattler – Austria
Ruth Sattler worked 30 years as a freelancer in the area of graphic design, marketing and advertisement, before starting in the field of teacher training and project management on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture.
Emil Mammadov – Azerbaijan
Emil Mammadov is managing an organization called Madad Azerbaijan which promotes active learning principles through teacher training activities. Madad works mainly with teachers, school principals and educators, supporting them to integrate active teaching and learning skills into everyday school programs.
Emil has been a judge at two European Innovative Education Forums (Berlin, 2010 and Moscow in 2011).
Aida Arnautović – Bosnia & Herzegovina
One of establishers of Diploma Programme in Drugagimnazija Sarajevo and teacher of Computer Science in this Programme
Establisher of Middle Years Programme in Drugagimnazija Sarajevo ( first and still only School which offers this Programme in B&H)
2003- up to present: Principal of Drugagimnazija Sarajevo
Rumiana Papancheva - Bulgaria
Rumyana Papancheva is a specialist in technologies integrated teaching and learning. She graduated Computer Sciences and obtained Ph.D. degree in mathematics and mathematical modeling from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Anastasia Economou – Cyprus
Head of the Educational Technology Department at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (CPI, Ministry of Education and Culture) since 2005.
Anastasia received her BSc in Elementary Education from Boston University in 1993, her Master’s degree in Educational Media and Computers from Arizona State University in 1994 and her MBA degree from the University of Cyprus in 2008. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1999 and at the University of California in Berkeley in 2010.
Birte Peulicke – Denmark
Birte Peulicke is permanently employed as a Senior Consultant at University College, UCC, in the Department of International Relations, Denmark. She is also President of the European Schools Projects Association, an association she has been involved with since 2001, when she attended her first ESP conference in Malmo, Sweden.
Merja Narvo-Akkola – Finland
MerjaNarvo-Akkola (M.Ed.) has over ten years of experience as a principal in a multicultural environment with special education and language immersion. Throughout her career she has had a strong emphasis on the development of schools and educational leadership.
Mai-Lien Nguyen-Duy
Mai-Lien has a MA from Sciences Po Paris and worked first as an intern in the non- governmental organization created by Martin Hirsch “ANSA” (Agence Nouvelle des Solidarités Actives) where she supported the implementation of the “Housing first” policy.
Thierry De Vulpillieres – France
Thierry Vulpillières holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University Paris Sorbonne and is currently the Partners in Learning director for France. He has published a paper about ICT in education in the Technology Review and the French Psychology Society.
Jutta Schneider – Germany
As a project manager and trainer at Helliwood media & education (www.helliwood.de), Jutta is part of a creative team of educators, concept developers, IT experts, designers and editors that develop innovative solutions for trends and new developments in the field of technology and learning.
John N. Kazazis – Greece
Chair, National Educational Council of Greece, For Primary and Secondary Education.
Professor of Classical Philology in the Department of Philology since 1992, served as its Chair 1994-1998. Since 1994, Deputy Director, and now President, of the Centre for the Greek Language (CGL), the Lexicography Division of which he organized and continues to direct.
Simos Retalis – Greece
Associate Professor. Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
Director of the CoSyLlab (Computer Supported Learning Engineering Laboratory) research group
Tibor Prievara – Hungary
Main activities: ICT coordinator, language teacher.
Victor McNair – Ireland
Senior lecturer at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland where he is responsible for Postgraduate Technology and Design students at the University’s Jordanstown campus.
Licia Cianfriglia – Italy
Inita Juhņēviča– Latvia
Deputy Director of General Education Department – Ministry of Education and Science
Responsible for developing the general education policy of Latvia in line with European context
Secondary Inspector of European Schools , responsible for monitoring the performance of European Schools (in Brussels, Luxembourg etc.)
Frank van den Oetelaar – Netherlands
About 25 years ago, Frank van den Oetelaar started his career as a primary school teacher. When the first computers were introduced into the classroom in the 1990s, he was convinced ICT would create a revolution in education. Twelve years ago he started his own company as a consultant on Education and ICT.
Artur Rudnicki – Poland
Fernando Campos – Portugal
Fernando Campos has a university degree in Telecommunications Systems and Electronics Engineering from Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (Lisbon Higher Institute for Engineering).
Gabi Barna – Romania
Gabriela Barna established the EOS Romania Foundation in1998 with a vision for growing the use of ICT in Romania.
Mihaela Garabet – Romania
Mihaela is teaching Physics and ICT in high school from Bucharest. She has a PhD in Physics (Educational Physics) and a Master Degree in ICT in Education.
She is a teacher trainer in what concerns the use of ICT in teaching and learning activities and co-author of Physics Handbooks and where is always trying to include ICT facilities.
Elena Shimutina - Russia
Diplomas in Mathematics, Psychology, Moscow State University, Management, ICT in Education, MBA.
Laureate of the RF President Award in the field of education.
Eleonora Vlahovic – Serbia
Eleonora is a senior advisor in the Institute for the Improvement of Education and a psychologist with more than 20 years of her life invested in improvement of education.
Ivan Kalaš – Slovakia
Ivan Kalas is the head of the Department of Informatics Education at Comenuis University where he leads educational research and mentors doctoral students in the field of technology-enhanced learning. For more than 15 years, Kalas has concentrated on developing educational software for children and students of all ages, the complex digital literacy of future teachers and constructionist enhancements of learning processes through digital technologies.
Ovidio Barcelo Hernandez – Spain
Ovidio Barcelo Hernandez has been IT coordinator at the Julio Verne School for the last 7 years, being responsible of the training and the technical support of the school.
Bo Jansson – Sweden
Vice president of the National Union of Teachers in Sweden, and is also a member of the Education International Pan-European Committee and ETUCE Executive Board. Jansson holds a University degree in Social Science and History as well as a teacher education qualification. Bo served as a judge at the European Innovative Educators Forum in Berlin in 2010 and the Worldwide Innovative Education Forums in Cape Town and Washington.
José Luis Ramos - Portugal
José Luís Ramosis an Associate Professor of the University of Évora in the area of ICT in Education and a Senior Researcher at the CIEP – Center for Research in Education and Psychology.
Elena Shimutina - Russia
Elena is a Vice Principal, Head of ICT Department and a leader of the school project team at the High School “Tsaritsyno”. This school was originally a Pathfinder School and is now a Mentor School.