International Social Europe Days 2024 Team

Patricia Arnold is Associate Professor of Socio-informatics at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Vice-Dean of the Department of Applied Social Sciences. She received a PhD in educational sciences form Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany, after having worked for several years in adult education and IT-training. Her research and development work focuses on facilitating learning communities with technologies (https://patricia-arnold.de/)

Jeannet Davids is a teacher at Hanzehogeschool Groningen, HRM. She is a teacher, researcher and has some coordinating tasks in the field of new students and, from September 2020, internationalization. Jeannet teaches mainly in oral and writing skills and in research skills.

Andreana Dibben is a lecturer with the Departmenf of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Malta. She is a social worker by profession and received her PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bristol, exploring teenage pregnancy and motherhood. She is also the Chairperson of an NGO, Women's Rights Foundation. Her research and activism centre on sexual and reproductive health and rights, violence against women and experiences of motherhood

Maria Luisa Gómez Jiménez is Phd, tenured professor of Administrative Law at Malaga University. She is member of the Sustainable Research Group and Directs the Research Group on Sustainable Housing. Founder of the indexed journal WPS-RISHUR, on Urban Sustainability and Urban regeneration and Director of the Publishing collection on Latin American Studies, She performs also as Assistant Director of the Research Institute of Biotechnology and Blue Economy at Malaga University, while being member of the Research Institute of Smart homes and Energy efficiency. Her research activities focusses on the areas of: Land Use Law, Housing, Smart homes, Smart cities, Urban Sustainability, Environmental Issues and e- health and Social Services. More details: https://orcid.org/my-orcid

Kersti Kriisk

Radu-Ioan Popa is an Associate Professor at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania. He holds a PhD in Psychology, centered on the work and organizational sector. His main research interests focus on the human resources management and human-artificial intelligence interactions, conducting various projects from a researcher's stance in the Centre for Social Research and INCON - Connected Intelligence Research Center. He is an Honorary Fellow at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Katrin Reich

Meret Reiser holds a Master in Sciences of Society of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She has worked during several years in different NGOs in Switzerland and Colombia, before joining the ZHAW Social Work as Research Associate. Her main interests are sustainability, digital transformation in social work, international and intercultural collaboration, innovation and organizational development.

Damian Spiteri is a lecturer in social work and social policy at the University of Malta. He has delivered lectures on different aspects of social conscientization in Malta, the UK (where he used to lecture at the University of York and the University of Strathclyde), and other parts of Europe, the US, at the UAE and China. He is the author of several published articles in edited journals and has authored a book on Multicultural Education which was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is an enthusiastic speaker and some of his lectures have been uploaded to YouTube. He is also a singer songwriter and his most recently published song is Come Back To Me. It is accessible on YouTube.

Christiane Trüe, LL.M. (East Anglia), is Professor for Public Law, in particular administrative and constitutional law, including European Union law, at the City University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. She is also the Course Director of the Master in European Studies programme at the university’s International Graduate Center. She has published monographs and articles in the areas of her denomination, as well as in international, EU, German and Chinese environmental and energy law. Her professional experience includes the civil service of one of the federal states in Germany as well as practising as an advocate, her academic experience scholarly work at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen in Germany and work as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) lecturer at an English University (East Anglia).

Johan Vandersmissen is an HR-lecturer at the Department PXL-Social Work of Hogeschool PXL, Hasselt, Belgium. He received his Master Commercial Engineer at University Hasselt and a Master International Commerce at University Mons-Hainaut. Johan is also the course director of the postgraduates ‘HR for SME’ and ‘Mental well-being at the workfloor’. He is chairman of the Flemish Inter-school Consultation Forum Human Resources. His specialities are ‘Recruitment and selection’ and ‘Mental Wellbeing on the workfloor and in the classroom’.

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