Our panellists
Paz Díaz Nieto
General Director for European Funds of the Cantabrian Government
Sabine Verheyen
Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Prof Arnold Kłonczyński
Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Education Quality, Gdańsk University
Michael Teutsch
Head of Unit “Schools and multilingualism” in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
Joanna Bochniarz
CEO of the Center for Innovative Education
GED Dowling
Co-founder, Terra Firma
Kuba Dorosz
Head outdoor Learning Trainer, CIE
Holger Haug
Co-owner “Die Seminarschneider“, consulting – training (VET), Germany Co-founder and instructor/trainer (experiential learning) “CEP – Centrum für Erlebnispädagogik“
Maximiliano Prieto Monson
Outdoor Learning Programme Director Madrid Outdoor Education & Adventure Therapy Europe Network Coordination Team member
Simon White
Operation Resource Manager, Venture Trust
Tim Schreiber
Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Unit B.3- Vocational Education and Training, CEDEFOP
Dr. Monika Hackel
Head of Department 2 Structure and Regulation of VET at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training in Germany (BIBB)
Robert Plummer
Senior Adviser for Social Affairs, BusinessEurope
Dr. phil. Jule Hildmann
Senior Research Fellow in Outdoor Environmental Education at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland/UK
Dorota Czarzasta-Wardyn
Outdoor learning coordinator in Food Bank in Olsztyn, master of management and social animator, mental trainer, coach
Tomasz Frankowski
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee on Culture and Education
Mariya Gabriel
The European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport
Jorge Gimeno Pawłowski
President ATLAND Consulting
Józek Borowski
Trainer OL in FOLM Project
Irene Lanuza Martin
General Director of Youth of Cantabria Government
Dr. Chris Lyones
Professor in Human Nature Relations in the Institute of Science and Environment, Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas
Yves Le Lostecque
Head of the Sport Unit in the European Commission
Maria del Carmen Lopez Cruz
Management and direction of international projects in Grupo Femxa
Irene de los Ríos Gutiérrez
Pedagogue in Amica Association
Aoibhín Ryan
Senior Project Officer for the LIT Development Unit
Grzegorz Radziejewski
Policy Coordinator and Economic Analyst in DG BUDG, European Commission
Abhay Adhikari
PHD, Founder, Digital Identities
Ines Ayala
Member of European Parliament
Dana-Carmen Bachmann
Head of Unit, European Commission – DG Employment, Social affairs and Inclusion
Łukasz Badowski
Dr, Education Department, Copernicus Science Center
Marcin Barański
General Manager, Meble VOX and Składy VOX
Brando Benifei
Member of the European Parliament, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Dominika Bettman
CEO, Siemens Polska
Marta Gracia Blanco
President, EUPLA
Krystyna Boczkowska
CEO, BOSCH Polska
Michał Boni
MEP, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Alan Bruce
Vice President, the European Distance and eLearning Network, Ireland
Jerzy Buzek
MEP, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Brendan Burns
President, NAT at the EESC
Maxime Cerutti
Director of Social Affairs Department, BusinessEurope
Uwe Combüchen
Director General, CEEMET
Gary Crow
Professor, Associate Dean, Indiana University, School of Education, USA
Janusz Dedo
HSBC Bank Poland
Martina Dlabajova
Member of the European Parliament
Ellen Doherty
Director of Education at the General Teaching Council for Scotland
Stanisław Dylak
Professor, Chair of Department of Resarch on Teacher and Teacher Education, Adam Mickiewicz University
Michał Federowicz
Director of the Educational Research Insititue
Montserrat Gomendio
Deputy Director, Education and Skills, OECD
Patricia García González
Founder and President of Femxa Group
Katarzyna Hall
President, Good Education Association
Peter Higgins
Professor, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Diana Jabłońska
Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate – General for Education andCulture, European Commission
Danuta Jazłowiecka
MEP, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz
Member of the European Parliament and of itsCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs
Jacek P. Krawczyk
President of the Employers’ Group, European Economic and Social Committee
Monika Lamparska-Przybysz
Scientif ic and Funding Access Manager, Polpharma S.A.
Thérèse De Liedekerke
Deputy Director General, BusinessEurope
Pirita Lindholm
Director, ERRIN
Michał Łakomski
Mayor’s Proxy for Smart Cities, Poznań City
Maria Mach
Director of the Off ice of the Polish Children’s Fund, Ms. Maria Mach
Jan Madey
Professor, University of Warsaw, Chairman of the Polish Children’s Fund
Kenneth Muir
Chief Executive of the General Education Council of Scotland
Tibor Navracsics
EU Commissioner on Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
Józef Niemiec
Special Advisor to the General Secretary of ETUC
Ana Carla Pereira
Head of Unit for „Skills and Qualifications” in Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission
Izabela Rakuć-Kochaniak
President of the PZU Foundation
Sofia Ribeiro
Member of the European Parliament
Andreas Riepl
Head of the Federal Center of eEducation, Austrian Ministry of Education
Arkadiusz Stańczyk
School Principal at Copernicus Academic Middle School And High School in Torun, Poland
Małgorzata Taraszkiewicz
Education psychologist, lecturer
Julie Ward
Member of the European Parliament
Sophia Eriksson Waterschoot
Director, Youth, Education and Erasmus+, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
Sigrid De Vries
Secretary General, CLEPA
Sertac Yeltekin
Head of the Corporate Learning, Grupo Unicredit
Małgorzata Żytko
Professor, Science Employee at the Pedagogic Faculty, University of Warsaw, Executive at the Faculty of School Education and Teachers’ Education
