Colin Blackburn

European Student Placement Agency Ltd, United Kingdom

Co-Founder and Director of ESPA UK, Intern Europe (vocational mobilities) 
and is also a working director for IAESTE UK
20 Years in global international trade, then launched ESPA UK over 12 years ago to provide a free service to Erasmus students needing compulsory work experience as part of their degrees. Partnering with over 1000 Universities, across 33 countries this has now been extended into a global reach by relaunching the UK back into the 77 yr old internship exchange program, IAESTE, which has 82 partner countries.
Colin has served as an EAIE volunteer for two years on the Employability Expert Community, is a member of LEO-NET and is involved with many initiatives aiding young adults transition from education to careers. Fully versed on the Temporary Worker - Government Authorised Exchange visa process, the ESPA team ensure all students coming to the UK are supported through the application process, with a 100% success rate. 

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Adrijana Lazić

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Adrijana has been working in international education for over 10 years and is currently responsible for short-term programmes at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana. She has been involved in various internationalisation activities, e.g., outgoing mobility, staff mobility and digitalisation of processes in general. She is an expert in managing summer and winter schools, both on-site and online and has been involved in the organization of tailor-made programmes and study abroad tours for international partners.  Adrijana holds a Master’s degree in Business Studies from the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. She has been involved with the EAIE since 2018. She was elected as Steering group member of the Expert Community Summer Schools for the 2022–2024 term. 
 

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Angeliki Psychogyiou

ACA, Belgium

Angeliki Psychogyiou is a Policy and Project Coordinator at the Academic Cooperation Association, where her main focus is on digitalisation and sustainability in international higher education, conducting both project and policy related work. In the framework of overseeing the related portfolio of ACA, she is the co-chair of ACA’s Thematic Peer Group "New Mobility Formats", exploring the intersection between digitalisation and sustainability and discussing emerging trends and issues in new digitally enhanced mobility formats as well as their implications for programme design and the work of funding agencies. Further to this, she has been active in the European Digital Education Hub, most recently leading the working group on sustainability in digital education and training. She is also the coordinator of the recently funded HIBLend project, aiming to raise interest in and enhance HEIs’ capacity to develop high-quality blended mobility opportunities for students. Angeliki has also been working in the private sector, in a complementary capacity, in evaluating EU funding applications in education and conducting research for EU studies (e.g., study on the implementation of the Council Recommendation on promoting automatic mutual recognition).

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