Robert Willems

KU Leuven, Belgium

Bert Willems is the coordinator of Student Accounting and Mobility at the Teaching and Learning Services of KU Leuven (Belgium), where he coordinates all central processes regarding tuition fees, mobility and scholarship administration, including Erasmus+ scholarships.
In addition to this, he has a specific focus on the administrative organisation of joint degree programmes, such as Erasmus Mundus programmes but also Europe’s first joint Bachelor programme in European Studies, as well as on the digitalisation of mobility processes.
He is also an active member of the community of Una Europa, the European University Alliance of which KU Leuven is a founding member, as co-chair of the Student Administration Cluster and as project lead of the ESCI project team. This academic year, he facilitated the start-up of the Interoperability Cluster of Una Europa, to allow the partners to work together structurally on this topic.

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Susanne Conze

Head of Unit for Higher Education in the Directorate General for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, European Commission, Belgium

Susanne Conze is Head of Unit for Higher education in the Directorate General for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport of the European Commission. The unit is the lead service for the development of the European Education Area's higher education dimension as well as devising and managing the higher education strand of the flagship Erasmus+ Programme via the National Agencies and the Executive Agency EACEA.
During her career, both in the Commission and before, Susanne worked in different areas of education and social inclusion policies as well as in the management of European education programmes. She studied history, sociology and political science and holds a PhD in history.

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