Conference Programme Committee
Dr. Vidmantas Tūtlys is the director of the Centre for Vocational Education and Research at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a member of Bologna Experts group of Lithuania, international research network of vocational education and training VETNET and the International research network EUCLID (European Competences: Leadership, Innovation, Development). He manages different European projects related to the development of vocational education and training and vocational qualifications (Leonardo da Vinci, EQF). Key interests of research include the development of the national qualifications systems and frameworks, inter-country comparability of qualifications and competences, socioeconomic models of VET and their development patterns, research of vocational activities and curriculum design.Professor Georg Spöttl is the director of the Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen. He is the founder of the Institute of Work and Technology at the University of Flensburg. He works on research projects in Germany and Europe and on technical cooperation projects for a number of Asian and Arabic countries. He specialises in curriculum development programmes, vocational qualifications research, research in high-tech training, vocational education planning and didactics. He is the author of numerous publications in these areas.
Marek Frankowicz, PhD is the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University. He is the University’s ECT coordinator, Head of the Jagiellonian University Team for Identification of New Education Areas, Vice Head of the Jagiellonian University Centre for Research on Higher Education. He is an associate professor at the PWSZ in Tarnów and is a representative of the PWSZ’s Rector for International Programmes. Dr. Frankowicz is a member of the Bologna Experts group of Poland, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s Working Group for the Qualifications Framework, and the Ministry of Education’s Expert group for the Polish National Qualifications Framework. He coordinates and contributes to numerous national and international educational projects, represents the Jagiellonian University in the European Chemistry Thematic Network and the Tarnów PWSZ in the EURASHE Council. He is also a member of the Chemistry Eurobachelor Label Committee.
Prof. Andrzej Kraśniewski MSC PhD is the chairman of the Education Committee at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at Warsaw University of Technology; representative of the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology for implementation of the Bologna Process and doctoral studies; Secretary General of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (since 1999); member of the Bologna Experts Team (until December 2013); author of approx. 130 publications on computer engineering and approx. 55 publications - mainly foreign ones - on various aspects of higher education; Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA).
Dr. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak works at the Warsaw School of Economics’ (SGH) Institute of Statistics and Demography and at the Institute of Educational Research (IBE). She graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics with a major in quantitative methods and information systems. In 2003, she obtained a doctorate from the same institution. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Chłoń-Domińczak worked at the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Social Security Reform. She was an associate of the Gdansk Institute for Market Economics. She was also a consultant to such organisations as the World Bank and OECD. From 2002 to 2009, she worked for the state administration as the Head of Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Social Policy (2004-2005) and at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (from January 2008 until June 2009). She was responsible for such initiatives as the „Solidarity of generations – 50+" programme, the law on the bridging pension scheme and laws regulating the disbursement of pension capital. In 2009, she was honoured with the Andrzej Bączkowski Award for "high qualifications combined with profound commitment to work for the public good."
Katarzyna Trawińska-Konador is the leader of the team for research and analyses at the Educational Research Institute. She graduated with a major in German and Dutch from the University of Warsaw. She studied at the University of Leuven in Belgium, the Freie Universität in Berlin and the University of Vienna. She also completed the Post-graduate European Studies course at the Warsaw School of Economics and a management qualifying course in education management at the Mazovia Regional In-Service Teacher Training Centre in Warsaw. Katarzyna Trawińska-Konador acquired professional experience in education while working as a didactic director for private continuing education institutions. Her main fields of professional interest include vocational education and training, continuing, non-formal and informal education, and distance learning. In her work at the Educational Research Institute, she is contributing as a task leader to the Polish Qualifications Framework project and is a researcher in the Economy and Labour Market Team.
