Speakers
Cato Rolea
Workshop
🎟️ Registration required (paid)
🤝 Workshop (collaborative)
💡 Student exchange and study abroad | International office management
This hands-on workshop builds on two previous EAIE sessions and responds to the need for staff to receive practical generative artificial intelligence training with clear guardrails. You will learn to write reliable prompts, build an AI assistant using institutional documents and create a simple AI agent for routine tasks. We will address privacy, ethics, staff capacity and human contact, using approved tools and no personal data. Everyone will leave with working prototypes, a privacy checklist and a pilot plan to apply AI throughout the international student life cycle and in international student support processes.
Learning outcomes
Target audience
This workshop is targeted at educators, administrators, international student advisors, and policy-makers in international education who are interested in using AI to enhance student services and streamline operations. Basic familiarity with generative AI is helpful but not required.
Cato Rolea is a UK-based digital-transformation strategist with 10 years’ experience delivering AI-driven solutions for government, higher education and commerce. He leads AI for Global Education (AFGE), a charity advancing ethical AI literacy worldwide. As Assistant Director for Digital Transformation at ECCTIS, he has led technology, automation and AI initiatives supporting the UK Home Office and Department for Education. He also founded UniGlobal Technologies, creators of the first AI-powered Career Toolkit for international education professionals. A globally in-demand keynote speaker, Cato advises policymakers and executives on responsible AI adoption and measurable impact.
Virginia van der Ster is a policy advisor digitalization at the (NL) National Agency Erasmus+. Within this role she is responsible for developing and implementing a cross-sector digitalisation policy and supporting practices within the framework of the E+ programme. Before starting at the National Agency, Virginia worked in Higher Education for 16 years as a policy officer Global Engagement and was steering group member of EAIE's Expert Community Mobility Advising for 6 years.
In the past years Virginia extended her expertise in international education to the area of digital education for all educational fields.
Virginia finds it interesting to also look at Digital Education in relation to the other priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme. In that context Virginia was also squad leader for the Diversity-Equity-Inclusion squad of the European Digital Education Hub, which brought forward amongst other outputs a workshop on "Technostress and digital wellbeing".