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