GAP PROJECT - Key Persons
Aleksandra Nowak - a leader of project team Gaming for Peace GAP in National Police Academy in Szczytno, assistant professor in Institute of Law and Administration, Department of Administration, Police Academy in Szczytno, captain of Polish Police. PhD in legal sciences on The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, post-diploma degree in "European Integration and Transnational Cooperation" on The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Member of European Society of Criminology. Author of many scientific articles.
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- Principal Investigator
- Gaming for Peace Principal Investigator
Anne Holohan is the Gaming for Peace Principal Investigator and Consortium Coordinator. She is Associate Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research lies in networks and cooperation, with particular focus on complex peacekeeping and reconstruction operations, and on collaboration and gamification using digital technologies. Her previous research included an ethnography of inter-organizational cooperation in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (Networks of Democracy, Stanford University Press, 2005) and a study of the role of cooperation and competition in motivating volunteers in distributed computing projects (Community, Competition and Citizen Science, Ashgate, 2013). A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, London School of Economics, and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD), she was a Marie Curie International Fellow in the University of Trento, Italy.
Artmir Galica is a multidiciplinary expert and an experienced information technology specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in multi-cultural environment, research, business, and all-round ICT, with several years in EU-funded large scale projects. Currently he is an ICT specialist and project expert at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, involved in several EU and national funded projects such as: GAP, IECEU, ABC4EU, EUCISE and EVAT.
Ciaran Devlin is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology in Trinity College. Having completed his undergraduate degree in Geography and Sociology in Trinity College Dublin; he has since developed a specific interest in the area of Digital Sociology, and in particular the intersections with gender and sexuality within these digital spheres and their wider applications.
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- Country Director ZOA, Iraq
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
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- Member of the Gap Ethics Committee
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science / Technical University of Denmark
Dr Damsgaard Jensen's current research focuses on security in ubiquitous computing, particularly on the development of models, policies and mechanisms to support secure collaboration in open dynamic systems, such as pervasive computing environments, sensor networks and the Internet. He is particularly interested in the problem of securing interactions between parties who do not necessarily share a common security infrastructure, e.g., sharing resources and information in open smart environments, across multiple organizations or across the Internet. He also serves on his own institution's ethics committee for the Oersted COFUND Post Doc programme. Dr Damsgaard Jensen will provide specific expertise on ethical practice with regards to digital activity and data.
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- Member of the Gap Ethics Committee
- Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin
Dr Eoin O'Dell is an Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin. He researches and publishes primarily in the fields of freedom of expression, and private and commercial law - and especially where they overlap in IP, IT and cyberlaw.
He has been Chair of the Fellows in Trinity College Dublin, President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, a Member of the Council and Executive of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK and Ireland, and Editor of the Dublin University Law Journal. He was a member of the group which advised the Department of Justice on the Defamation Act, 2009; he was a member of the Advisory Group on a European Civil Code which advised the EU Commission on common principles of European private law; and he was a member of the Statute Law Revision Committee advising the Department of Public Service and Reform on the process of revising the Irish Statute Book. He was Chair of the Copyright Review Group which presented its final report to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in October 2013. He is a member of the Government Data Forum, established by the Minister of State with responsibility for Data Protection to advise Government on the challenges that arise from the growth in the digital economy. He is legal advisor to the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Dr O'Dell will provide ethical and legal advice and oversight relating, in general, to the handling of project data, and in particular to informed consent.
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- Assistant Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention
- Irish Representative
Dr Kieran Doyle is the Assistant Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention in Maynooth University, Ireland. The Institute has a high level of external engagement with key practitioners and organisations active in the practice of negotiation, mediation, peacebuilding and restorative practice.
Dr Doyle is Irish representative on the Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) based in the European External Action Service, Brussels, and also represents Ireland on the Academic Think Tank of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
His primary research and teaching interests lie in peacebuilding and practice based learning, and since 2015, leads the Kennedy Institute team in two H2020 research projects examining the effectiveness of EU conflict intervention capabilities. He is also a founding member of the editorial board and coordinator of the openaccess Journal of Mediation and Applied Conflict Analysis (JMACA) published online at https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/edward-m-kennedy-institute/journal-mediation-and-applied-conflict-analysis.
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- Chairman of the Gap Ethics Committee
- Member of the Ethics
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- Lecturer
- Research Associate
Dr Philip McCready is a lecturer and research associate in the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He was awarded a PhD by the Ulster University for his thesis on the capacity of community-based restorative justice to activate civil society within a working class Loyalist area in South Belfast. He has a degree in Law and an MSSc in Criminal Justice from Queen's University Belfast. Dr McCready has worked previously on a European Framework 7 research project ALTERNATIVE involving partners from Belgium, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Norway and the Ulster University. The Ulster University role formed part of the active research component and the research was conducted at selected sites in Northern Ireland and considered the capacity of restorative responses in addressing conflicts between local communities and gangs of youths, between long-term residents and recent immigrants, and inter-community sectarian conflict. Lecturing and research interests include theories of crime and deviance, young people in conflict with law and justice, restorative justice and the role of restorative practices in response to legacy issues of hegemonic and patriarchal control by state and paramilitaries in post-conflict societies.
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- Research Fellow With the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention
Dr Róisín Smith is currently a Research Fellow with the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University, Ireland. Dr Smith holds a PhD in political science from Queen's University Belfast and a masters in International Studies from the University of Limerick. She has taught international political conflict, U.S. foreign policy and interventions in the Middle East, in Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin. While completing a doctorate on ‘U.S. mediation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict', Róisin was a politics tutor at Queen's University, teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate level on International Relations. In addition to presenting at conferences and conducting reviews for the Irish Political Studies Journal, she has field experience in the Middle East and Africa. Her work extends to the humanitarian and development sector and she has provided research, evaluation and monitoring and consultancy projects for NGOs in Ireland and Ethiopia. Róisín's area of expertise includes conflict prevention and post-conflict environments, mediation and negotiation, human rights and humanitarian intervention as well as the foreign policies of the European Union and United States.
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- Member of the Gap Ethics Committee
- Director of the Mental Health and Social Research Unit
Dr McGilloway is Director of the Mental Health and Social Research Unit (MHSRU) at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is a community and public health psychologist with many years' experience in undertaking applied health and social care research, with a particular focus on child and adult mental health and service evaluation, and also including vulnerable and marginalised groups. Dr McGilloway will provide expertise in the ethical treatment of research participants, particularly in regards to PTSD and mental well-being.
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
- Director of CEPOL
Since February 2010 Dr. Ferenc Bánfi is the Director of CEPOL - European Police College and since CEPOL's new legal mandate effective from July 2016 he is the Executive Director of CEPOL - The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training.
Prior to joining CEPOL, he headed the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM). He also acted as Senior Political Advisor to the EU Special Representative to Moldova. Before taking up this position, he worked as Project Manager of the Euro-Atlantic Advisory Team in Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova. He has a long career within the Hungarian national police, starting in 1980, then rising through the ranks to Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Hungarian National Police in 1997, before taking up the position of Head of Department for South-East European Cooperation at the Hungarian Ministry of Interior. From 2000 to 2004, he led the South-East European Cooperative Initiative Regional Center for Combating Trans-border Crime in Bucharest.
In 2016, the Hungarian National University of Public Service (NUPS) has awarded Dr. Ferenc Bánfi the title of "honorary professor", in recognition of his professional knowledge and practical experience, as well as his outstanding contribution to the NUPS's educational, scientific and cultural activities.
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- Assistant Professor at the State Security Institute
Dr. Kamila Trochowska, is an Assistant Professor at the State Security Institute of the War Studies University in Warsaw. She is currently the creator and director of the Cross-Cultural Competence for CSDP Missions and Operations course for the European Security and Defense College and the Operationalization of Culture for HUMINT course for the Polish Armed Forces. Dr. Trochowska realized six research projects on operationalization of culture for the military, security culture and anthropology of cybersecurity for the Ministry of Defense and National Science Center, and currently runs one on cognitive science applications for security and defense for the Polish Ministry of Science.
Dr. Michael Cooke has been a principal investigator on numerous FP-7 and H2020 projects including iSAR+, HOMER, SOTERIA, RESILENS. He is an applied psychologist with key expertise in organizational psychology, human factors, HCI and computer-support cooperative work (CSCW). And has worked in various different human factors domains including air traffic control, flight operations and maintenance, crisis and emergency management, security and LEA processes, manufacturing and energy prod
Dr. Walentyna Trzcinska is a retired Police officer and a senior lecturer at the Police Academy in Szczytno, Poland. She works in the field of Police management, teamwork, leadership, quality management and prevention of discrimination and hate crime.
During her career she has been working as a trainer in numerous national and international courses for police management staff. From 1999 to 2011 she was a Polish representative in European Network for Policewomen and from 2009 to 2012 - a member of Working Group on Learning within CEPOL - The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training.
Gareth works at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) which he joined in January 2010. The ISS is an independent African authoritative research, policy and training organisation working to enhance human security in Africa (See www.issafrica.org).
He currently heads the Crime and Justice Programe, which works to inform government policy and promote public awareness about effective responses to violence, crime and corruption. This includes undertaking research to promote effective violence prevention initiatives, and develop a better understanding of public violence and improving the functioning of the criminal justice system (See https://issafrica.org/crimehub/). He also currently serves on the independent panel appointed by the Cabinet to reform Public Order Policing in South Africa based on the Marikana Commission recommendations.
Between 2006 and 2009 he was the Policy Advisor and Special Projects Manager to the Gauteng Provincial Minister (MEC) for Community Safety. His responsibilities included developing the Gauteng Safety Strategy 2006 - 2014 and the Gauteng Aggravated Robbery Strategy 2009 - 2011 which contributed to a reduction in robberies in the province. He also established the Gauteng Information on Police Performance System (GIPPS), which won a Government Service Excellence Award in 2009.
Prior to his work in government, Gareth was a Senior Project Manager in the Criminal Justice Programme at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). His key research focus area was on promoting integrity and tackling corruption in the SAPS. Before joining CSVR, Gareth spent three years working as a Project Manager at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA).
Gareth has also worked as a consultant for a number of government and international donor agencies and served on a National Task Team established by the Department of Justice to set up the country's first National Witness Protection Programme in 1996. Gareth publishes both locally and internationally on issues related to his areas of work.
Gareth holds a Masters Degree in Public and Development Management (MM-P&DM) from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Applied Social Science Research Methodology from the University of Stellenbosch, an Honours Degree in Political Studies, and a Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences, both from the University of Cape Town.
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
Irene-Maria Eich is presently working with the European External Action Service (EEAS) as Training Manager for the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) in Brussels.
John McNeill has extensive experience of criminal justice, governance, accountability, complaints handling and human rights. He was a Probation Officer, and a senior official in the Northern Ireland Prison Service; a Governor in the Scottish Prison Service (SPS); Chief Executive of SACRO; and a senior official in SPS Headquarters responsible for regimes and healthcare. Following a period on its Board he developed a Convention compliant approach to managing risk, and helped establish the Risk Management Authority, a body that has influenced practice internationally. Other activities include numerous non-executive positions in national and international non-governmental organisations, improving their governance and performance.
Since his ‘retirement' in July 2005 John has held a range of Ministerial and Parliamentary appointments - the Risk Management Authority for Scotland; the Civil Nuclear Police Authority; the Parole Board for England and Wales; the Probation Board Northern Ireland; and the Ministry of Defence Service Complaints Panel. He was one of the first Human Rights Commissioners appointed by the Scottish Parliament. Following his tenure as Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland he was appointed the first Police Investigations and Review Commissioner in April 2013 with oversight of all policing bodies operating in Scotland.
John studied at Queen's University Belfast, the Open University, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Strathclyde, and at Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology as a Cropwood Fellow. He holds degrees in Arts, Criminology, Legal Studies and Human Rights. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster; an Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University; an Honorary Professor at Queen Margaret's University Edinburgh; and an Associate of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, advising on accountability in policing bodies. John was also an Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management.
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- Member of the European Union Radicalisation Awareness Network
Jonny Byrne is currently a lecturer in Criminology in the School of Criminology, Social Policy and Politics at the University of Ulster. Jonny lectures on issues relating to policing and security, countering violent extremism and psychology within the criminal justice system. He has completed a number of research projects on public attitudes to peace walls, paramilitary violence, young people's participation in political violence, community experiences of public order policing in Northern Ireland, bonfires, and the manipulations of commemorations and celebrations in a contested society. Jonny works closely within a number of organisations including the Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) on areas pertaining to ‘policing with the community, confidence and accountability'. In the previous two years Jonny has been awarded two ESRC Knowledge Exchange awards, were he worked with the British government and the DoJ on supporting policy making through academic research and analysis.
Jonny is also a member of the European Union Radicalisation Awareness Network (Youth, Families and Community Working Group and the Police and Law Enforcement Working Group). Dr. Byrne is a member of the Youth Advisory Group to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. He has also been responsible for two recent reports on radicalisation in Northern Ireland (2016) for the International donor Co-operation Ireland, looking at motivations behind young people's participation in political violence. Aside from the GAP project, Jonny is currently managing two research projects that are looking at the policy around commemorations and identity in a shared society (for the community relations council) and the challenges around implementing a policing with the community strategy in a divided society (for the PSNI).
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
- Chief of OCHA 's Civil - Military Coordination Section
Josef Reiterer is Chief of OCHA's Civil-Military Coordination Section. He started his international career with the United Nations in 1999 in Geneva where he led the training programme on humanitarian civil-military coordination until June 2008. During this period he gained experience with mechanisms responding rapidly to humanitarian crises such as the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC). He deployed several times to operations in highly demanding environments.
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
Julian Harston lectures successfully to military and civilian audiences all over the world. He has also participated in a number of Round tables and other discussions.
His extensive experience in International Relations, and Peace and Security matters makes him a valuable participant in training courses for Senior managers, and in Conferences and other fora where there is a need for senior management experience in these fields.
Julian Harston is now lecturing on a regular basis to Undergraduate and Graduate classes at the Belgrade Diplomatic and security academy. He is also able to offer Consultancy Services to Companies and Individuals on United Nations Peacekeeping, and on wider Security and Political issues, with particular expertise in the Balkans, in the Maghreb and sub Saharan Africa.
Dr. Justyna Pyz is an anthropologist specialising in intercultural relationships. She received her MA and PhD from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Her research includes Role Playing Games amongst secondary school and university students and interreligious dialogue in India. She worked previously on the IRCHSS-funded project, ‘Ireland, empire and education', based in the TCD Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies and co-edited Irish classrooms and British empire: Imperial contexts in the origins of modern education (Four Courts Press, 2012). She also has experience in database management, exhibition curating and working with charities.
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- Associated Director of AFCEA International and Regional Vice President of AFCEA International for Mediterranean and Black Sea Region
Kristina Henriksson is Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Security Management Programs since 1990s at Laurea. She is responsible for language, communication and intercultural management studies in the programs. She is a doctoral student at the Department of World Cultures at the University of Helsinki.
She has published widely on Laurea's pedagogical Learning by Developing action model (LbD). She has been a pioneer in implementing e-learning, blended learning, and LbD in communication and language studies at Laurea. She has presented new ways of teaching to teachers from different Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland on basis of invitation as well as abroad at partner universities. She also has presented the pedagogical model LbD at many international conferences. Her present interest lies in developing mobile learning.
With an intercultural background of living in many countries and continents since childhood, she has worked before Laurea in several countries in international contexts with organizational communication responsibilities.
She was project manager of LLP Comenius project LeTeEm (Learners, Teachers and Employers, 2013-2015) at Laurea. She was an expert in the ESF project Quicker Steps (Nuoret nopeammin työelämään), where the focus was on how to get young people move quicker into working life (2011-2012). Ms. Henriksson has been the coordinator of several Erasmus IPs during 2007-2013.
Mads Haahr is CEO and Creative Director for the award-winning Haunted Planet Studios, whose primary responsibility in GAP is to design and develop the GAP game. Mads is a true multidisciplinarian with BSc (1996) and MSc (1999) degrees in Computer Science and English Literature from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD (2004) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin. In addition to his work for Haunted Planet, Mads is a Lecturer with the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin where also serves as Course Director for the MSc in Interactive Digital Media. His main research interests in Trinity College are in Game Studies, Interactive Digital Narrative and Artificial Intelligence for Games, and he has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications and supervised five PhD students to completion on these and other topics.
Mads is also known for creating the Internet's premier true random number service RANDOM.ORG.
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- Executive Director of SaferGlobe
Maria Mekri is the Executive Director of SaferGlobe, Finland's leading think tank on peace and security as well as the Conceptual Framework Manager of the H2020 funded IECEU-project (Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention). For IECEU, SaferGlobe developed a method for comparative study of crisis management operations and missions, which was used in a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of 10 crisis management operations and missions in the spring of 2017.
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
- Expert
Marina Harston is an expert in the property market, both in Belgrade and wider Serbia, and in Montenegro and Croatia.
Mark Reber is a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with over 20 years professional experience in policing and security sector reform. His initial work was in the RCMP's Internal Affairs Branch on internal disciplinary and conflict of interest investigations, public complaints and anti-corruption. He then worked as an Executive Officer to a number of senior RCMP officers, and subsequently managed and led organizational change and renewal initiatives in areas including strategic planning, performance management and police labour relations.
Prior to leaving the RCMP Mark was seconded to a number of international policing oversight agencies, initially for five years as Chief of Staff to the Oversight Commissioner for Policing Reform in Northern Ireland, and a subsequent eighteen months as Senior Inspector in the newly-formed Garda Síochána Inspectorate in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. His subsequent professional focus has been on leading policing reform and governance initiatives particularly in post-conflict locations including Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Somaliland among others. Mark has designed and managed investigative, analysis and operational strengthening initiatives for law enforcement and judicial agencies in Costa Rica, Botswana, Tanzania, Palestine, the Philippines and Egypt as well as most recently in Ukraine.
He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice from Ulster University and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Mark also holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations from Carleton University and in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and he is a certified United Nations Security Sector Reform Advisor and certified Organizational Assessor under the European Foundation for Quality Management. Since 2013 Mark has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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- Head of the Foreign Projects Office, Caritas Poland
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- Co - Founder and Executive Director of Enquirya
Mascia Toussaint is the co-founder and executive director of Enquirya, a Dutch SME focusing on developing turn-key software solutions and consultancy, supporting governments and companies with data driven quality assurance in safety and crisis management. She holds masters in international relations, European law and Dutch civil law from Leiden University. Before joining Enquirya, she worked in the Netherlands for the Ministry of Justice, the National Police Agency, the Ministry of Interior and in Brussels for the European Commission.
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- Chairman
- Founding Director
- Professor
Professor Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University.
In his early career, Mike was trained as an economist and led economics departments at both Leeds and Central Lancashire Universities; he was a Fulbright Scholar in the USA. From 1995 until 2011, initially seconded to UK Government as a senior adviser, Mike was a senior manager with the British Council with responsibilities, among others, for the Council's global cultural relations programme for intercultural and interfaith dialogue, youth engagement and so-called ‘soft-power' global strategic partnerships; his diplomatic work with British Council included overseas postings, in Egypt, East Jerusalem and Indonesia.
He returned to academic life in 2011 as Professor of Intercultural Relations at Coventry University. Mike is active with UNESCO and the UN Alliance of Civilizations; he is currently lead advisor to the World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue in Baku, the World Peace Forum in Indonesia and directs the RISING Global Peace Forum at Coventry. His Centre at Coventry will host the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS) from 2018.
Professor Hardy has been twice honoured, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George in the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 2010, for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a trustee of 3FF the leading interfaith charity in the UK and a board director of the US-based International Leadership Association.
His published work reflects his interest in identity: Future: Next Exit (2009) and Future Agenda- the World in 2020 (2010), in innovation and vulnerability: Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Development (2016). London: Palgrave, and in intercultural dialogue: Dialogue, Conflict and Transformation: Concepts and Context (2017) MUP/UNESCO.
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- Member of the Expert Advisory Board
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- Researcher and Project Specialist
Ms Elisa Norvanto is working as a Researcher and Project Specialist in the Finnish Defence Forces International Centre, responsible for the research and development activities related to European Union Security and Defence Policy and training/exercise evaluations. Her background is in Political Science and Economics and she has been working within international education and training since 2011. She has been involved in developing and implementing capacity building programmes in Africa and the Nordic countries, as well as developing evaluation concepts for crisis management training. In addition, she has conducted research on the civil-military synergies within the CSDP missions and operations, and she is currently involved in several research and capacity building projects aiming at enhancing the collaboration between different actors in the framework of comprehensive security.
Ms Kirsi Hyttinen is acting as WP7 Leader in GAP -project and in charge of Stakeholder Consultations in Finland. She holds a position as Senior Manager for Research at Laurea University of Applied Sciences (www.laurea.fi/en). She has a strong awareness project management and coordination through international projects responsibilities (H2020 -funded, FP7-funded, DG funded, regionally funded, tenders). During her commitments in Laurea, she has resulted grant funding for Laurea over 1,5 million. She has years of experiences of the design and implementation of different adult education and higher education training programs in the field of civilian crisis management and conflict prevention. She has been Consortium Coordinator of IECEU (Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU conflict prevention) -project (www.ieceu-project.com), which GAP Consortium collaborates with.
She has been responsible of dissemination and intercultural communication implementation, including major international partnerships. She has gained a strong awareness of the conflict prevention and peacebuilding through research and operational tasks. She has the intercultural communication and competence skills and know-how on the crisis management concepts, such as comprehensive approach, Monitoring, Mentoring and Advising (MMA), Security Sector Reform (SSR), gender issues. Beyond from previous her PhD research focuses on the technology design and pedagogical approaches (edutainment and gamification).
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- Member of NATO STO IST Panel
Col Dr. Eng. Nikolai Stoianov , associate professor. Dr. Stoianov is researcher in the Development of C4I Systems Directorate. He is well experienced in development of information systems with different designation, many of which are already brought into use in the Bulgarian Army. He is specialized in the sphere of Information Security and as such is involved in the European Projects on the FP7 "INDECT", "HOMER", H2020 "GaP, and EDA project "SPIDER".
Nikolai Stoianov is member of NATO STO IST Panel and participate in ET-066 "Future concepts and tools for Cyber Defence", IST-RTG-108 on "Cyber Defence Situational Awareness", and IST-152 RTG "Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defence and Resilience", Research Lecture Series organizer and director RLS-143 on "Cyber Security Science and Engineering". The experience of Dr. Stoianov could be useful in design and establishment of the information systems, envisaged in the project. Having in mind project specificity and the information, which will be stored in those systems, of great importance for them will be the information security. Dr. Stoianov has more than 80 published papers in national and international scientific conferences and journals, he is author and co-author of five books in field in network and information security.
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- Communication Specialist, Polish Humanitarian Action, PAH
Pasi Hario is working as a research specialist in GAP for Laurea University of Applied Sciences. He also contributes to other security related projects such as Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU (IECEU) conflict prevention and Cpex (Design, Plan and Conduct an evaluation for the Union Civil Protection Modules Exercises).
Mr. Hario's academic background is in conflict studies, history and future studies. He is a politics and communications professional with a broad experience in national level governance, working with NGO's, academic world and operational crisis management duties.
Rowena is an experienced skills and qualifications development specialist and project manager with a focus on bespoke analysis and benchmarking. A proven record in product development such as online career tools benchmarked to occupational standards, and creating bespoke qualifications to ease transitional skills capacity during organisational change.
An expert in the design and use of workforce development tools including building competency frameworks, functional mapping at various levels, and developing and using national and international standards and best practice. Rowena applies 10 years of experience developing workforce skills across a variety of sectors around the world, and makes connections to key policies and regulations to ensure clients are at the forefront of the skills arena.
Sara Singleton is PhD researcher on the GAP project. Her research focuses on the role of trust in international peacekeeping collaboration. Sara has a BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies from IADT in Dublin, and an MA in International Politics and Human Rights from London City University. She has worked in communications and project management with international NGOs, and in facilitation and training with young people, including young asylum seekers and refugees.
Stephen has a proven track record in assessing, leading and motivating others to the highest professional standards. Incisive with business development opportunities, thriving on business and strategic planning. Extensive experience in workforce design, workforce engagement, and delivery of various learning and development solutions within front facing services and specializes in capacity building through reform, community development, and learning delivery.
Using a wealth of knowledge and experience within the skills sector has allowed close working with clients to identify the ‘supply and demand' of workforce needs, assisting them in finding cost effective solutions. Through Upskill Enterprise, Stephen applies skills in design, development, sales and delivery of various restructuring solutions within the EU with specialisms in security, capacity building through reform, community development, and corporate leadership. The foundation and core of this experience comes from work with communities internationally.
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- Director of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Media Technology
- Professor
Professor Vincent Wade is Director of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Media Technology and Chair of Computer Science (Est. 1990) in School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on intelligent systems, AI and Personalisation. As Director of ADAPT, Vincent heads a world leading research Centre uniquely focused across the life cycle of digital media, which pioneers technologies for media analytics, advanced machine learning, machine translation, media personalization, speech & multimodal interaction and eithics & privacy in media. He was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College for his contribution to research and has published almost three hundred scientific papers in international journals and conferences. Vincent is also the co-founder of a successful TCD spin-out company called EmpowerTheUser which specializes in simulation based learning platforms and immersive learning analytics. Other awards won by Professor Wade include the European Language Label Award for innovation in Language Learning Technology (2010).