CRISSH2020 Symposium

Sofia Zacharaki is the deputy Minister of Education and religious affairs.

Before her appointment, she served as the spokesperson for Nea Demokratia, the then leading opposition centre-right party in Greece, an EPP member party. Before that and for more than 2 years, Sofia was the party’s deputy spokesperson. Prior to that, in 2012 until 2014 she was the European and International Affairs advisor to the Minister of Development and participated in the preparation of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

A state department programme alumnus, in 2015 she represented Greece in the International Leadership Visitor Programme in the USA in the field of “The role of Private Public Partnerships in restructuring economies”. In the past, she worked as a teacher in state and private schools in Greece , as a European Affairs executive in the Greek Ministry of Education and the Secretariat for lifelong learning and youth policies.

Project Officer at the Unit G2 (Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education) of the Directorate Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CNECT). European Commission, Luxembourg.

Nikolaos Grammenos is a counselor in the field of “Computer Science and Informatics” and the coordinator of the “Information and Communications Technology – I.C.T.” subunit of the Institute of Educational Policy.

He has been honored with the prize “Award of Excellence in Telecommunications” given by the Ericsson Company as a representative of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Manolis Katevenis received the Ph.D. degree from U.C.Berkeley in 1983 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1984 for his thesis on “Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) Architectures for VLSI”.

After a brief term on the faculty of Computer Science at Stanford University, CA USA, he is in Greece, with the University of Crete and with FORTH, since 1986, where he is today Professor and Head of the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory.

Giorgos Vouzaxakis holds a PhD in Education (economic courses curricula and sustainable development through the support of ICTs), University of Crete (2018). He holds a Master Degree in Education from Greek Open University (2013), a Master of Science in Computer Studies (E-commerce) » from University of Essex UK (2004) and a degree in Economics from University of Macedonia Greece (2001). He also holds a « Certificate in Education and Teaching» from School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece (2007). He has been a teacher of Economics in Greek secondary education since 2007. His publications and research interests concern the didactics of Economics and Business, ICT in Education and Education for Sustainable Development.

My name is Stanca Cosma. I graduated the University from Timisoara, Romania. I am a teacher of English at “QUEEN MARY” Secondary School in Arad, Romania and a teacher trainer. I have worked in education for 32 years.

I am a teacher and also a facilitator in CRISS Project.

Jasmina Kljunić has a master’s degree from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics. After her study, she worked as a Computer Science teacher at several schools. She is currently employed as a Computer Science teacher at the Administrative School Zagreb, Croatia.

Her subject of interest is electronic and mobile learning, the impact of digital technologies on brain development in children and young people. In 2015, at the CECIIS Conference in Varaždin, she published and presented a scientific paper co-authored with Assistant Professor Diana Plantak Vukovac (Ph.D.), “A Survey on Usage of Mobile Devices for Learning among Tertiary Students in Croatia”.

Francisco Ángel Pérez has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Seville and his specialties are algebra, geometry and topology. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Seville in the Applied Economics department. He is now the Head Teacher at BVM Irlandesas School where he has had different leadership positions and has led some important innovative projects.

Ana Romero Girón is a Ph.D. Architect from the University of Seville (2017). She holds a Master Degree in Education (2014) and a Master in Diagnosis and Repair of Buildings (2010) from the University of Seville. Since she graduated as an architect, she has collaborated in research projects and has some architecture publications. At the moment, she works as a teacher at BVM Irlandesas School and she’s a Certified Google Trainer.

I have a multiyear strong experience and deep knowledge of business processes in Commercial Companies, but also of information and communication technologies in Educational Institutes, due to my career development in companies and sectors of multifold activities, both on private and public sector.

I have been instructor in various educational trainings and seminars, for teachers or students. For the last six years I have organized and participated in Cultural Projects in school, as well as long educational visits in Greece or abroad, with most recent the 4-day trip to Germany-France with a group of 40 students and core event the visit to the European Parliament in Strasburg.