Andreas Winkler

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Andreas is Head of International Relations Europe and Unite at TU Darmstadt. He has been Secretary General of the European University Alliance Unite! since its foundation in November 2019. Prior to his current position, he successfully managed European projects and networks as coordinator of the CLUSTER consortium (2018-20), as a funding and policy advisor for internationalisation at TU Darmstadt (2015-19) and while working with universities in the Western Balkans as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Bamberg (2010-15).
Andreas studied Geography, Political Sciences, and Communication Sciences and holds a PhD in geography. He is also a certified university and science manager.
He is passionate about the EAIE and a member of the Thematic Committee on European-funded programmes (2024-26) and was already an associate member of the EAIE Expert Community for European Collaborative Programmes (2022-23).

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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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