Programme
Speakers
Prof. Eva Mendez is an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She was Chair of the EC Open Science Policy Platform (2018-2020). Member of the CoARA Steering Board.
Sara di Giorgio is the Open Science Policy & International Relations Officer at GARR, the ultra-broadband network dedicated to the Italian research and education community supporting ICDI (Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure), the Italian-mandated organisation in the EOSC-A.
Prof. Peter Stanchev is a Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA professor. He has forty-five years of professional experience in multimedia systems, database systems, multimedia semantics, education, open access to scientific information and data and medical systems. He is serving on many database and multimedia conference program committees and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He is the Bulgarian representative in the EU OpenAIRE project.
Ana Lazarova is a practising lawyer in the field of Intellectual Property and Commercial Law based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is Chief Assistant Professor at Sofia University and Chairperson of the Bulgarian Digital Rights Association Digital Republic. She is the Creative Commons Chapter Lead for Bulgaria.
Dr. Dimitar Iliev is a lecturer in Greek poetry, Romance Linguistics and Digital Classics at the Department of Classics at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. His scholarly interests range from Greek poetry and historical linguistics to Digital Humanities, online collections of epigraphic monuments, electronic dictionaries and parallel corpora. He is the principal investigator for the Telamon collection of Ancient Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria and the National Coordinator of DARIAH-EU for Bulgaria.
Dr Albena Antonova is a senior assistant lecturer & project manager at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. Her main research interests are smart services, serious games, learning gamification, Open Science and Open Data, digital transformation, change management, business model transformation, open innovations, and Industry 4.0 technologies. Her works also include topics of KM and KMS, serious games and e-learning technologies.
Dr Milena Dobreva is is Senior Lecturer In Information Behaviour Computer and Information Sciences at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. She had principal investigator’s roles in research and development projects funded by the EC, JISC, the European Digital Library Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of the IFLA Library Journal and currently serves on the Management Board of Europeana Network Association and is a member of the Scientific Board of DARIAH-EU.
Dr. Plamen Miltenoff worked as a Researcher and Librarian at the Austrian National Library and Northwestern University and as an Information Specialist and Professor at St. Cloud State University. His education includes graduate degrees in history from Bulgaria, Austria and the United States, a graduate degree in library and information science, and terminal degrees in education and psychology from Bulgaria and the US. His professional interests include educational technologies, social media, gaming and gamification, learning environments (LEs), immersive teaching and learning, and artificial intelligence for education. Currently, he does research and training for the Science and Research Institute at University of Economics - Varna and leading workshops in AI Literacy for university students and instructors and K12 teachers.