Teaching Innovation Lab (CU.til)

Nevena M. Buđevac is Associate professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Education where she teaches different subjects related to psychology of education (such as Educational psychology, Strategies of successful learning, Collaboration between teachers and parents). She has extensive experience from projects related to education. Her main research interests are related to learning and developmental processes through peer interaction in school context and students’ reading literacy development.

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Faculty of Education
University of Belgrade

Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidbach holds a PhD in Foreign Language Pedagogy and is a trained secondary teacher of English, Social Studies/History, and Drama. He heads the English Language Education unit and currently serves as Director of the Professional School of Education at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on CLIL, teacher/learner identities, foreign language teaching policies, and sociocultural contexts of language education. He is involved in several international research projects. He works with the Circle U. TENet group aiming for sustainable educational innovation in initial teacher education across Circle U. based on international mobility formats and research-driven professional learning.

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Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sonja Buchberger has been team lead of faculty development at the University of Vienna since 2021. In May 2024, she was appointed academic chair of the Teaching Innovation Lab in the European University Alliance Circle U. National and international teaching assignments (UK, Switzerland, Germany). In 2013, she was awarded her doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prior to that, she studied Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies and Development Studies at the University of Vienna.

Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Team lead, development of programmes supporting faculty to develop and professionalise their teaching, editorial board member and author in the Infopool better teaching (univie.ac.at), responsibility for the UNIVIE Teaching Awards, workshops and consultations in different areas (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, teaching and career development, teaching portfolio & teaching statement, teaching with discussions, teaching academic reading, diversity and inclusion, feedback, teaching in the science lab).

Prior to that, from 2014 onwards, she was director of various programs (Basic qualification for staff new to teaching, coaching, workshop series, on demand, tailor-made offers (in German), certificate program Teaching Competence Plus) and developed a MOOC (massive open online course) on inclusive teaching in higher education (in German).

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Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Vienna

Filippo Chiarello is currently an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the School of Engineering, University of Pisa. He teaches Design and Innovation at the master’s degrees of Engineering Management and Data Science. His research focuses on natural language processing techniques for studying technological innovation and HR-related phenomena. He is responsible for faculty development for his institution.

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School of Engineering, DESTEC
University of Pisa

Jelena joined King’s in 2020 as a Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication. She previously worked at LSE as a Fellow, at the University of Westminster as an Associate Lecturer, and at Ofcom as a Policy Advisor. She has been lecturing for over a decade and has won multiple awards for her contributions in this area. Jelena has conducted research for and advised European Commission, RISJ, University of Oxford, Food Standards Agency, and a number of start-ups, consultancies and think-tanks.

Jelena holds a PhD in Media Policy from the University of Westminster, a Master’s degree from the same University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistic and Literature from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Jelena specialises in digital media and communications, with a special focus on regulatory and policy innovations. Currently she is conducting research into the use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and also looks at governance innovations when it comes to digital technologies.

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Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication
King’s College London

Mariam Haspekian is Professor in Educational Sciences at University Paris Cité, and director of the EDA laboratory from September 2024.

She has been a mathematics teacher since 1997 then researcher in mathematics education since 2007. In 2011, she joined Descartes University, where she directed the Bachelor of Education for 8 years.

Throughout her career, she has taught a wide range of didactic/mathematics subjects from bachelor/master students in education to secondary school mathematics-teachers and teacher trainers.

Her research focuses on teaching practices in mathematics and the integration of technology in mathematics teaching. She has participated in several international research projects and training programs such as the MOOC of the ICMI Commission dedicated to research in math-education.

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SHS, Department of Sciences of Education
University Paris Cité

Jean-François Rees is a lecturer and researcher in marine biology at UCLouvain, with a passion for educational innovation and science communication. He has developed several learning tools, including concept maps for assessment (CCàT) and the TOCCàTA platform, which have been tested on thousands of students with convincing results.

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Faculty of Sciences,
UCLouvain

Christina Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Language Education within the School of Education, Communication and Society where she works as a teacher educator, contributing to a range of language-related programmes. Her research interests, include teacher identity, decolonising the curriculum, and inclusive practices for learners with English as an Additional Language and those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. She is leading an anti-racism in Initial Teacher Education Working group for the School’s Post-Graduate Certificate in Education programme. She is Editor-in-Chief of the EAL Journal, published by the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum.

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School of Education, Communication and Society
Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
King's College London

Fredrik Mørk Røkenes joined LINK – Centre for Learning, Innovation & Academic Development at the University of Oslo in 2024 as an Associate Professor in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. He previously worked as an Associate Professor in English Didactics at the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He also worked as an Associate Professor II/Adjunct Professor at the Nordic Graduate School of Educational Research at the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Bergen. Fredrik holds a PhD in teacher education and teaching methodology, focusing on preservice teachers’ technology training and digital competence development in teacher education. His research interests are focused on digital competence, professional development, computer-assisted language learning, artificial intelligence, and research methodology and supervision. He is currently involved in projects related to the use of artificial intelligence for teaching and learning, digital reading, and the professional development of university teachers.

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• Fredrik Mørk Røkenes
  Associate Professor
  Centre for Learning, Innovation & Academic Development

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Senior Adviser
University of Oslo

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Department of English and American Studies
University of Vienna

Wolfgang Deicke is a social scientist and the head of bologna.labs, the cross-faculty development laboratory for innovative teaching and learning formats at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also a member of the Accreditation Commission (akko) of the German Association for Academic Development.

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Professor
UCLouvain

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University of Pisa

Director of the Teaching Innovation Division at Université Paris Cité

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Centre Director for Educational Development

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Responsible for the Q-program
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Andrea Taddei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa

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Project coordinator @CU.til

With an interdisciplinary background in law, medicine, and contemporary literature, Viktória Nagy is an educational researcher specializing in higher education innovation. Her work focuses on the feasibility of pedagogical innovations, particularly the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in the context of French medical education.

As part of her doctoral research, she designed and implemented a bilingual PBL track at the Faculty of Medicine of Université Paris Cité. She analyses this initiative through the lens of “feasibility” as a methodological and analytical framework for understanding and guiding pedagogical change.

Alongside her doctoral work, she is actively involved in European-level teaching innovation initiatives. As an active member of the Circle U. InCU.bator, she has contributed to the design of several hackathons and innovation programmes, including the Sustainable Changemakers Programme. She also leads the Circle U. Women Founders project, dedicated to empowering young women innovators.

She currently serves as Coordinator of the Circle U. Teaching Innovation Lab (CU.til) at the Louvain Learning Lab. In this role, she supports the development, structuring, and visibility of innovative teaching formats across the Circle U. Alliance, contributing to the Europeanisation of higher education through cross-institutional collaboration, pedagogical experimentation, and the creation of shared academic initiatives. She is also involved in the development of a pedagogical research network within Circle U., fostering dialogue between research, teaching innovation, and institutional transformation at the European level.

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