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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who give birth to them; for the first only gave them life, while the latter the art of living well"
Aristotle
Dr. Vasiliki Brinia is the Head of the Teacher Education Program (TEP) of the Athens University of Economics and Business, Scientific Director of the TEP and a lecturer at the Department of Informatics, School of Information Sciences and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
She holds two Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Administration, a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), a Diploma in Pedagogical Studies, a Diploma in Counseling, a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in Education and Teaching Sciences and has carried out PostDoc Research in the teaching methodology of adult education through experiential teaching methods.
She has been an expert-advisor at the Ministry of Education in the organizational and administrative restructuring of the Greek educational system. She has long-term administrative and teaching experience in secondary education and adult education. She has been teaching at the Athens University of Economics and Business (since 2005), as well as in Postgraduate Programs, such as "Studies in Education-Management of Educational Units" and "Adult Education" of the Hellenic Open University (since 2008), in the Postgraduate Program "Institutions and Health Policies "of the University of Peloponnese-Corinth (since 2011), in the Postgraduate Program "Theory, Practice and Assessment of the Educational Process" of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Athens (since 2014), in the Postgraduate Program "Education and Culture" of the Harokopio University. She has also taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Piraeus (Department of Economics) and at the University of Patras (Department of Primary Education).
In 2010, with the mandate of the Senate and the Rector's Council of the Athens University of Economics and Business, she innovatively designed, organized and implemented, according to the Teacher Education Program of the Harvard School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, as a teaching and scientific director, the Teacher Education Program of the Athens University of Economics and Business, which is the first of its kind teacher education program certified by the Ministry of Education (2013) in Greece at the level of Higher Educational Institutes.
She has pursued extensive research and writing activities in Greece and abroad. In particular, she has made 145 publications, 70 of which are research papers that have been published in international scientific journals with the blind peer review system. She has participated in several international and local scientific conferences. She is author of five monographs-university textbooks and of two chapters in two edited books.
Finally, she is an active member of the international scientific community, as Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Education and Teaching Methodology, NADIA, Australia as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Education Economics and Development-(Inderscience, UK) while she is a scientific member of the Editorial Advisory Board in international scientific journals with reviewers such as: Educational Studies (Taylor&Francis), International Journal of Educational Management (Emerald, UK), Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (Emerald, UK), Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning (Emerald, UK), Quality in Education, (Emerald, UK), International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (Inderscience, UK), International Journal of Management in Education (Inderscience, UK), International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability (Inderscience, UK), International Journal of Happiness and Development, (Inderscience, UK), International Journal of Business and Management (Asian Institute of Research), Education Quarterly Reviews (Asian Institute of Research), Sustainability (MDPI).
He is a Lecturer in the Teacher Education Program, Athens University of Economics and Business. His research is in the fields of network economics, information systems and education. He is a graduate of Informatics and holds postgraduate specializations in Information Systems Management as well as in Economics from the Departments of Informatics and Economic Sciences of the Athens University of Economics and Business. In 2009, he was awarded a Doctorate Degree in Network Economics by the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Dr Georgios Dourgounas is a scholar and researcher specialising in European educational policy and lifelong learning, with a PhD from Panteion University in these fields. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “European Educational Policy and Lifelong Learning Policies in Greece: Investigating the Achievement of Employability and Social Inequality Reduction Goals before and during the Economic Crisis,” examines the implementation and outcomes of European educational and lifelong learning policies in Greece.
He holds two Master’s degrees, in Adult Education and in Education and Human Rights, and a Bachelor’s degree in Social and Educational Policy from the University of the Peloponnese. He has substantial teaching experience in higher education, covering areas such as educational policy, adult education, social policy, and qualitative research methodology.
Dr Dourgounas has also participated in research and European projects in the fields of lifelong learning, skills development, and higher education. His published research focuses, among other areas, on quality assurance, evaluation, and accountability in higher education.
Mr. Gerasimos Makris is a doctor-psychiatrist graduated from the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of the University of Crete. He holds a PhD in the Department of Medicine of the School of Health Sciences of the Greek Academy of Sciences on the subject: "Psychophysiological Study of the Phenotype and Endophenotype of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders". He holds a Master's Degree in "Interconnective Psychiatry: Separate Physical and Mental Health Care" from the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, E.K.P.A. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society of Analytical Group & Family Psychotherapy (founder psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Mattheos Yosaphat). He has been systematically engaged on behalf of the Hellenic Society of Analytical Group & Family Psychotherapy (together with the doctor-psychiatrist and president of the society Mr. Pantelis Papadopoulos) with the training of teachers with "life lessons in schools" in collaboration with the Science Studies Program of Education and Training of the OPA. He has authored a large number of articles in the field of General and Evolutionary Psychology. In particular, his articles have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, while he has participated in national and international scientific conferences. His scientific interests focus on the field of evolutionary psychology and the cultivation of life skills in teachers in order to pass them on to their students.
Dr Konstantia Spyriadou holds a PhD from the Hellenic Open University in the field of School Management and Educational Policy. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Multiple Identities of Primary Education Teachers Seeking Positions of Administrative Responsibility,” focuses on leadership identity, school management, and the selection of educational leaders.
She holds a Master’s degree in Education Sciences and a second degree in Business Administration. She has extensive professional experience in public education, including service as a school principal. Alongside her professional career, she has developed significant university-level teaching experience as a member of the teaching staff of the postgraduate programme “Management and Leadership of School Units” at Frederick University. Over eleven academic semesters, she taught courses independently in areas including school leadership, educational policy, assessment and quality assurance, human resource management, and teaching and assessment.
Dr Spyriadou has also supervised a substantial number of postgraduate dissertations in the fields of educational administration and school leadership. Her published research focuses consistently and exclusively on educational management and leadership.
BA, University of Patras; MS, PhD in Education, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Armaos is an educational researcher specialized in research on the implementation of ICT in education, Head of KETHEA’s Staff Education Division. His Master was on educational research (MSc) while his PhD was on learning and teaching with computers in the University of Manchester, UK. Since 2002, he works with KETHEA engaged initially with the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of European research and training programs in health and educational support for drug offenders, harm reduction projects as well as in projects networking drug services and researching on employability issues for drug addicts. His current position focuses on designing, developing and evaluating education and training programs for professionals within the field of drug addictions, networking with academic institutions on aspects of drug education, research evidence and evaluation. Since 2006, he teaches at the Hellenic Open University on adult education methodologies.
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