Professor University of Maribor, Slovenia ATHENA University Alliance Jozsef.Gyorkos@um.si

He is a full professor at the University of Maribor. His areas of expertise include the research funding and innovation systems, research evaluation systems, concepts of information society and media (digitalization), and risk management of information system design and deployment. His professional career is also marked by eight years of
senior positions at government level and by five years of chairing the national research- funding agency, each with notable international dimensions.
Within ATHENA European university, József Györkös is a co-editor of the ATHENA Research Book, coordinator of the ATHENA Research Board, and teammate in WP4 – Research.

Dr. Sebastian Stride, SIRIS Academic S.L., Spain s.stride@sirisacademic.com

Experienced Strategy Consultant with demonstrated track record driving growth, improving operations, and successfully creating solutions for complex problems at leading Research Institutions, Universities and Business Schools worldwide.
Proven capacity of organisational and institutional change management, including financial analysis and modelling, for institutions of up to 15 000 staff and 80 000 students.
In depth experience of project conception and implementation in competitive environments. Demonstrated ability at fundraising at both small and large scales (up to 1 Billion Euros).

Sebastian Stride is also a scholar, specialised in World History and more specifically the long term evolution of settlement patterns along the Silk Road.
As an archaeologist he has 20 years experience working in Central Asia, leading archaeological surveys around Samarkand and in the Surkhan Darya province (southern Uzbekistan).
As a Professor he taught at Barcelona University courses on subjects ranging from Chinese history to Islam in the Indian subcontinent and the Economy and Geopolitics of Central Asia.
As a Lecturer, he has spoken at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy, Bologna University, British Academy, Collège de France, Council of Europe, École Normale Supérieure, Harvard University, International Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and Moscow Museum of the Orient amongst others.

ESN ATHENA President Hellenic Mediterranean University petervanderhijden@outlook.com

Georgios is 23 from the Hellenic Mediterranean University. He studies Electrical and Computer Engineering and he has served as President of the ATHENA Student Board for two terms. With the collaborations of ESN international and ICE he created the first federation of ESN sections aimed at the European Universities initiative which received endorsement from the European Commision as well as an Outstanding Performance award and Best practices award. He has done his erasmus in Finland at Aalto University. He currently holds the position of president at ESN HMU and ESN ATHENA. His priorities are fair exchange experiences , internationalization of higher education and fair student representation at European Universities.

Stefania Oikonomou, W2L,Greece stefaniaoiko11@gmail.com

I am a political scientist (BA, MA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Since 2021, I have been
working as a researcher and a project management assistant at Web2Learn, an R&D company in
Greece. I am particularly interested in exploring forms of citizen engagement as they are manifested
through (emerging) digital technologies (i.e., hackathons, digital activism, citizen science). Able to
develop interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral skills and work in a diverse work environment.