Partners

Patricia Santos

Patricia Santos holds a Ph.D in Technology Enhanced Learning. She is a Tenure Track professor and Ramon y Cajal fellow, senior researcher and project manager, member of the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education group at the Interactive and Distributed Technologies Group (TIDE) at the ICT Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research focuses on leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences, with a particular emphasis on the design and implementation of innovative educational tools. Through her work, she explores the intersections of learning design, learning analytics, and Human-Computer Interaction, with a keen interest in the application of Human-Centered Design principles to support learning technologies.
 

Davinia Hernández-Leo

Davinia Hernández-Leo is Full Professor and Serra Húnter fellow at the Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and head of the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE) research group. Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of learning and collaboration technologies, with particular emphasis on learning design, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), community platforms, applied artificial intelligence, and learning analytics.
 

Patricia Khonje

Patricia Khonje is a PhD student in the Department/School of engineering at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. She holds an MEng in Information and Communication Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, where she conducted research on Trajectory privacy protection in location-based services. She also earned a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with Network Security from the University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM). Professionally, she has over four years of experience in higher education institutions in Malawi. She has served as a Lecturer at the Blantyre Satellite Campus of the Malawi School of Government, an adjunct lecturer at Mzuzu University, and an Assistant Lecturer at Daeyang University. Her research areas lie within Information and Communication Technologies, with strong interests in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Technology-Enhanced Learning, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Computer Systems Security, ICT Ethics, and Data Ethics. Her current research explores the culturally sensitive and ethically grounded integration of GenAI tools in global educational contexts. She applies frameworks such as Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions and Value Sensitive Design (VSD) to promote inclusive and responsible AI adoption in education.

Davide Taibi

Davide Taibi is a senior researcher at the Institute for Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy. Since 2001, he has been conducting research in the field of educational technology applications in various educational contexts. His main research interests focus on the applications of the Semantic Web, Learning Analytics, Extended Reality, social media, and artificial intelligence in education. He has participated as a partner in several projects funded by the European community and has coordinated two EU-funded projects in the field of Data Literacy. He is also a contract professor teaching Open Data Management at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Palermo

Paola Denaro

Paola Denaro graduated in Economics at Palermo University in 1999. She has been working as a technologist at the Italian National Research Council since 2006. She is responsible for the financial management, monitoring and reporting of research projects funded by local, national and European bodies. 
Currently, she holds the position of financial project manager and is responsible for all financial and contractual aspects of projects funded by the EU. She is also involved in the design and reporting of European projects 
 

Giovanni Fulantelli

Giovanni Fulantelli is senior researcher at the Institute for Educational Technology at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and contract professor at the LUMSA University, where he holds a course in ‘Digital technologies for learning’. In 2005 he was awarded as one of the best young researchers at the CNR. His research interests are inspired, on the one hand, by the open education movement, and the principle that technologies must and can guarantee universal access to quality education; on the other hand, by the awareness that the rapid diffusion of social media and AI-based solutions requires special attention to avoid compromising the potential for educational development and personal growth offered by digital technologies.
 

Dimitri Ognibene

Dr Dimitri Ognibene​ is a Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex since October 2017. His  research interests span from Robotics and Machine Learning to Computational Neuroscience.  He aims to endow adaptive artificial systems with the exploratory skills and active perception capabilities necessary to tackle unconstrained social environments. He also studies how these skills are realised in living organisms together with the causes and consequences of their failures.  He was Marie Curie Cofund UPFellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, focusing on the development of algorithms for intelligent social agents with bounded sensory and computational resources. Before he has been developing social active perception algorithms  at Centre for Robotics Research, Kings College London and at the Personal Robotics Laboratory in Imperial College London. He also collaborated with Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL) to study how to model exploration in the Active Inference neuro-computational paradigm. During his PhD he studied the interaction between active perception and autonomous development through neuro-robotic models at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of the Italian Research Council (ISTC CNR).  Dr Ognibene has been Visiting Researcher at Bounded Resource Reasoning Laboratory in UMass and at University of Reykjavik (Iceland) exploring the symmetries between active sensor control and meta-reasoning. These studies have shown interesting potential to model and explain some neuropsychological disorders, such as addiction. He is now actively researching how such models can help preventing or ameliorating such conditions.

Mlađan Jovanović

Dr. Mlađan Jovanović is a professor of Computer Science at Singidunum University. He has industrial and research experience in the development of artificial intelligence and interactive computing systems. He worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Trento, Italy. He served as a visiting researcher at Northumbria University in Newcastle and the University of Edinburgh. During the same period, he held a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher scholarship. He is a member of the special interest group on AI in Business at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Vienna University of Technology. His areas of interest and work include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, computer games, and social computing. His focus is on language models, their architectures, and their integration with knowledge-based systems, aiming to enhance the performance of artificial intelligence systems and improve transparency, explainability, interpretability, safety, utility, and usability.

Aleksandar Jevremovic

Dr. Aleksandar Jevremovic is an academic and researcher specializing in computer networks, information security, and human-computer interaction (HCI). He currently serves as a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Computing in Belgrade and holds/held notable international roles, including guest lecturer at Harvard University and external consultant for the American Public University System. His extensive research portfolio focuses on critical areas such as Active Assisted Living (AAL) environments, IoT security, and digital forensics, with a particular emphasis on using AI to protect vulnerable users online, exemplified by his EU/Horizon Next Generation Internet project "C.A.S.P.E.R." Recognized as an Expert Level Instructor at the Cisco Networking Academy, he also serves as a Serbian representative to the UNESCO/IFIP Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction, bridging the gap between advanced cybersecurity practices and human-centered technology.

Tülay Kaya

Tülay Kaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul University, Türkiye. She completed her postgraduate studies in sociology at Istanbul University and conducted postdoctoral research on homeschooling at the Faculty of Education, Penn State University (USA), with the support of a scholarship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). Her academic work focuses on teaching, research, and active engagement in national and international projects, where she has taken on responsibilities in implementation, project management, and coordination. Her research interests include non-formal education, educational alternatives, and socially fragile groups. In this context, she has participated in Erasmus+ and Horizon projects as both a partner and a coordinator.

Anabel Arias

Anabel Arias is Responsible for Digital Rights at CECU. She has more than seven years of experience as a litigation lawyer. Holding a Master's in Human Rights from Navarra University and a Master's in Law from Austral University, she works advocating for digital and consumer rights within the European legal framework, including pivotal legislation like the AI Act. She attended a summer course at Amsterdam University, focusing on European platform regulation with a special emphasis on the Digital Services Act (DSA). Also, she is a member of the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s Research Group as part of the Fall 2024 AI Policy Clinic.