This community is governed by the members of the MEDICI Consortium:
The MEDICI Strategic Management Group is responsible for the strategic management of the MEDICI project and consequently of the MEDICI Knowledge Community. It is led by the Project Coordinator and the Scientific Coordinator.
The Knowledge Community management team is responsible for the day to day management of the Knowledge Community.
The Good practice Assessment team is responsible for the assessment and validation of cases for the MEDICI Catalogue and Map.
Strategic Management team
Prof Dr. Daniel Burgos
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Project coordinator)
Daniel works as a Full Professor of Technologies for Education & Communication and Vice-rector for International Research (UNIR Research), at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). In addition, he holds the UNESCO Chair on eLearning and the ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources. He works also as Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED).
His interests are mainly focused on Educational Technology & Innovation: Adaptive/Personalised and Informal eLearning, Learning Analytics, Social Networks, eGames, and eLearning Specifications.
He is the coordinator of the MEDICI project
Dr. Joe Cullen
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (Scientific Coordinator)
Joe, M.A., PhD and Dip. Psych, is a founder and Director of Arcola Research, an independent research consultancy based in London, UK, and Professional Partner, the Tavistock Institute, London UK. He was previously a social sciences academic at the Universities of Cambridge, Loughborough, Leeds, London Metropolitan and the Open University.
He has extensive experience in digital inclusion and is the Scientific Co-ordinator for the MEDICI project.
Joaquin Alonso
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Joaquin Alonso runs the International Project Office at Vice-Chancellorship for International Research (http://research.unir.net). He holds a Law degree from Oviedo University. He’s been working in research management activities for Spanish regional governments, institutions and employers’ associations since 2001. He has worked as Technology Watch and Technology Transfer program manager in Madrid R&D regional system and IRC network. He has also run the R&D regional plan for the Region of Cantabria, including a large experience managing ERDF operative programs and several FP projects. He manages national, European and International research and innovation initiatives within UNIR. He is also member of the Bar Association of Madrid. He is a member of the MEDICI Strategic management team and the project manager of MEDICI.
Miana Carneiro
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Member of the Good Practice Assessment team
Miana Carneiro is a researcher at CEPCEP - Portuguese Catholic University. She has worked in research projects in the fields of social innovation, human rights, education, inclusion, employability, ICT and digital transformation. She holds an MA in Public Art Studies from the University of Southern California and an MA in Urban Design: Art, City and Society from the University of Barcelona.
In MEDICI, she leads the activities related to good practice identification and selection and is a member of the Good Practice Assessment team
Francesca di Concetto
Smart Bananas
Francesca is Managing Partner at Smart Bananas. With over 20 years experience in the field of lifelong learning, education and training, she is an adult education trainer in active job search techniques, and a career and business coach in self-employment and career transition for older workers and post-maternity-leave women. Her interests focus on equal opportunity, gender equality, fight against discrimination in education, in the workplace, and in society. She is a member of the MEDICI Strategic Management Group.
David Drabble
Tavistock Institute
Dave is a Senior Researcher and Consultant for the Tavistock Institute. He has worked on over forty projects and is the Tavistock partner lead on Medici. David has a track record on digital inclusion, and is currently the lead researcher on a research project on employment initiatives to increase digital inclusion in Limerick, South West Ireland, for PAUL Partnership. Dave is a member of the Strategic management team and leads the Evaluation activities of the MEDICI project and the Learning activities of the Knowledge Community.
Anna Tsiboukli
KETHEA Knowledge Community Manager
Anna, PhD, MA, DipEd, is an Educational Psychologist, Head of KETHEA Department of Education. She received her PhD from Institute of Education, University of London and carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. The last twenty years she teaches and supervises research at the Hellenic Open University (www.eap.gr) Master’s degree course on “Adult Education”. She is a member of the Strategic management team, and she manages the MEDICI Knowledge Community leading Stakeholders’ engagement activities within the MEDICI project.
Alessia Sebillo
DIESIS NETWORK Member of the Knowledge Community management team
Alessia Sebillo is a project manager specialising in various educational methodologies (formal and non-formal) and in the construction of strategic partnerships. She works for DIESIS and is now managing several projects focusing on education and training, youth empowerment and equal opportunities. In MEDICI, she is member of the Strategic management team and she coordinates activities related to networking, dissemination and community building. She is also a member of the Knowledge Community management team.
Staff
Stefania Aceto
Knowledge Community Content Manager - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Stefania Aceto work as Senior Project Manager and researcher at UNIR, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. She has extensive experience in the field of learning innovation, with special focus on technology enhanced learning, open education, digital and social inclusion. She is a member of the Knowledge Community Management team and the Content Manager of the MEDICI Digital Inclusion Knowledge Community.
Remos Armaos
Knowledge Community manager
Remos MSc PhD, is an educational researcher specialized in research on ICT in education as well as on adult education methodologies, Head of KETHEA’s Staff Education Department and Lecturer of adult education in the Hellenic Open University. His professional and academic experience is on designing, developing and evaluating education and training programs for professionals within the field of drug addictions, psychology and education., while he teaches research and evaluation design on American and Greek higher institutions. He is a manager of the MEDICI Knowledge Community and co-leads Stakeholders’ engagement activities within the MEDICI project
Marta Bruschi
Member of the Knowledge Community management team
Marta Bruschi has nearly 10 years’ experience in the Third Sector, working with international NGOs and European Networks. She led key programmes in the areas of Capacity Building, Leadership and Peer Learning. At Diesis, she manages transnational projects and she is responsible for Diesis Network engagement. She is part of the Knowledge Community management team.
Greg Holloway
Good Practice Assessment team manager
An ex-performer, musician, martial artist, mountaineer and social research practitioner with a particular interest in risk behaviour, resilience, inclusion-exclusion dynamics, ‘the margins’ and identity politics. He has extensive training, action-research, evaluation and project coordination experience. In MEDICI, Greg leads the Good Practice Assessment team.
Jose Carlos San Jose del Amo
IT Manager - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
José Carlos works as a Head of ICT Development and analyst programmer in the framework of a number of projects at the Vice-chancellorship for International Research at UNIR”. In MEDICI, he leads the development team of Digital Inclusion Map and Catalogue.
Vesa Latifi
Project Assistant
Vesa Latifi holds a Master’s degree in New Media and Society in the EU from the Free University of Brussels. She has acquired extensive experience in social issues by working with projects in migration, gender equality, youth entrepreneurship, and digital inclusion. At DIESIS, she supports the project managers in the operation of the daily project activities. She is part of the Knowledge Community Management team of MEDICI.
This project is co-funded by the European Commission. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the partnership and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.
