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Peter A. Bruck (Salzburg, A)
Conference Chair
ARC Research Studios Austria

Peter A. Bruck is the founder and General Manager of the Research Studios Austria (more) within the Austrian Research Centers, and division head for e-technologies and smart media at the ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH, the national public-private technology research organisation of Austria. He is also the honorary President of the ICNM - International Center for New Media, Salzburg, the chairman of the Board of the European Academy of Digital Media-EADiM, Netherlands, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UN World Summit Award. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Iowa and at McGill, Montreal, and holds doctorates in law and communications, and master degrees in sociology and economics. He has taught at universities in Canada, US and Western Europe plus Israel and Poland and has over 25 years of experience in research and consulting in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada. Peter A. Bruck continues some teaching as Honorary Professor of Information Economy and New Technologies at the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Law, at the University of Salzburg and holds an appointment as Research Professor of Communication and Journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has founded the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and headed research institutes at universities and national research organisations in Canada and Austria and has been senior partner in ICRA - International Communications Research Associates, Ottawa, Canada. From 2001 to 2002 Peter A. Bruck was on the Board of Management and head of the Business Unit on Interactive Media of the Jet2Web Internet Services GmbH of the Austrian Telekom Group.

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Claudio Dondi (Bologna, I)
Member of the Advisory Board
SCIENTER Research Institute

Claudio Dondi is President of SCIENTER, a research institute linked with Bologna University and specialising in the field of open learning and innovation in education and training systems. He co-ordinated several projects in national and European Programmes (COMETT, DELTA, FORCE, TEMPUS, LEONARDO, SOCRATES, ADAPT, EMPLOYMENT). He co-ordinates the European Observatory on Multimedia Educational Software and advices the European Commission, national and regional authorities in Italy, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Russia, Hungary on themes related to innovation in education and training systems. Beside its main role at SCIENTER, Claudio Dondi is Vice-President of EDEN, Secretary General of CAMPO - the Italian Open Learning Association, a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Educational Technology and of EURODL - The European Journal of Open Distance Learning, he became professor of Human Resource Development at the College of Europe in 1999.

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Erik Duval (Leuven, BE)
Member of the Advisory Board
University of Leuven

Erik Duval is President of The ARIADNE Foundation and Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He leads the research unit on hypermedia and databases, part of the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. ARIADNE is a european association open to the world, for knowledge sharing and reuse, e-learning for all, international cooperation in teaching, serving the learning citizen, and is part of the IST Prolearn Network of Excellence. Erik Duval’s current research interests are metadata in a wide sense and learning object metadata in particular, standards in interoperability, in order to realise an open, global infrastructure for learning human-computer interaction in general, and in a learning or digital repository context in particular the application of information and communication technology in education and training.

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Michael Kerres (Duisburg, D)
Member of the Advisory Board
Professor of Media Didactics and Knowledge Management (Duisburg)

Michael Kerres is Professor of Education (Media Didactics and Knowledge Management) and director of the Duisburg Learning Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). In 2004 he has been Fellow at the Swiss Center for Innovations of Learning, University of St. Gallen (CH), from 1998 - 2001 Professor for educational psychology (media), Bochum University, and from 1990-1998 Professor for media didactics and psychology at the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences. Since 1998 he is Head of the Steinbeis-Transfer Center for Education and Media. Michael Kerres’ present research interests include didactical design of hybrid learning arrangements, mobile learning/notebook-university, synchronous and asynchronous communication/collaboration tools, pragmatism as a theoretical foundation of media didactics.

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Kristof Nyiri (Budapest, HUN)
Member of the Advisory Board
Professor Kristóf Nyiri, Institute for Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (Budapest)

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Peter Parnes (Luleå, SWE)
Member of the Advisory Board
Luleå University of Technology

Peter Parnes is Associate Professor and Research leader of the Media Technology group at the Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). Research interests include distributed applications and real-time human communication over the Internet. He enjoys applied research which is attractive to the industry outside the research community. He has a PhD in Computer Science received from the Luleå University of Technology in 1999. He has a strong record of financing research and he has insight into how to create spin-off companies as he is the founder of the Swedish company Marratech AB. Peter Parnes enjoys experimenting with different education forms and tries to be adaptive to feedback from students. He believes that one of the best education forms is for students to educate themselves by finding answers to current problems on their own. He also believes that undergraduate education should be close to active research and by that creating a more stimulating environment.

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