Speakers

Deputy-Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education & Internationalisation at University of Warwick. Jo leads on the development of existing and new mobility schemes with strategic partners and on the intercultural experience on and off campus to ensure UW delivers an excellent student learning journey which is international, interdisciplinary and inclusive. Jo is a National Teaching Fellow, and International Subject Chair for Linguistics, Language, Communication and Media on the SCOPUS board

Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Lithuanian trade-unionist. EESC rapporteur on opinions related to education and training.

Director at Lifelong Learning Platform. Steering Committee member of Civil Society Eruope. Co-chair European Economic and Social Committee Liaison Group of Civil Society Organisations.

Vice-rector for internationalisation at VUB, full professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chair of the Oncology Cluster. EUTOPIA Vice-President for VUB.

Senior Adviser to the vice-rector of Education & Student Affairs at VUB. In her former position of Secretary-General of the Flemish Inter-University Council, she handled a wide range of policy-related issues and interacted with the ministry of education in Flanders. 

Member of the EUTOPIA Advisory Council, VUB Fellow and visiting lecturer with expertise inf ICT and education; competences development for educators; development of transversal skills such as entrepreneurship; digital competences; collaboration; creativity & innovation; EU-wide approaches modernising education & training through innovative teaching & learning. Van den Brande was Principal Administrator at the Directorate-General (DG) for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission, working in digital and entrepreneurial skills and competencies.

Ivan Svetlik is a Professor of Human Resources and Social Policy at the University of Ljubljana. He was Rector of the University of Ljubljana (2013-2017), Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs of Slovenia (2008-2012) and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Vocational Education and Training published by CEDEFOP. He was involved in the reforms of the Slovenian labour market, social security and education and training, as well as in consulting in these areas in the Balkan countries and the field of HRM in companies. His main research topics and interests are labour, employment, education, human resources, social security and quality of life. He has been involved in international networks and institutions such as ITF, CEDEFOP and the CRANET network for human resource management research. He has published over 400 articles, book chapters and books. He is currently chairing the Council of the Republic of Slovenia for Higher Education. He is involved in the EUTOPIA Alliance project as a senior researcher and contributes to its activities in the Western Balkans and the FLECSLAB project for the Lifelong Learning Business Model.