Digital Skills Workshop 2025: Developing Digital Skills for Resilience
Politehnica University Timișoara, through the Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education and the Multimedia Center, together with the Alliance of European Universities E³UDRES², with the support of Accelerate Future HEI, organizes the 10th edition a Digital Skills Workshop 2025: Developing Digital Skills for Resilience.
The event is aimed at actors in the field of education, research, but also at citizens in the community, bringing together national and international specialists to discuss the importance of developing digital skills for resilience in education, research and community.
This year's theme, "Developing digital skills for resilience", emphasizes the need to equip educators, students, and citizens with the skills needed to navigate and thrive in an ever-changing digital environment.
We are waiting for you on December 12, 2025, between 10:00-14:00, at K1 Amphitheater | UPT Conference Center or Online via Zoom.
Speakeri confirmați
Diana Andone | On-site
Director of the ID/IFR and Digital Education Department
Dr. Diana Andone este director al Departamentului de ID/IFR și Educație digitală al Universității Politehnica din Timișoara, România, responsabil pentru planificarea și implementarea tehnologiilor digitale, a tehnologiilor de învățare online și a premiatului Campus Virtual CVUPT al universității. Ea este, de asemenea, profesor asociat la Universitatea Politehnica din Timișoara, România, în domeniul tehnologiilor multimedia, interactive și web. Din 1998, predă module de curs în universități din Marea Britanie, Franța, SUA, Finlanda, Italia, Grecia.
She holds a PhD in Designing eLearning Spaces for Digital Students from Brighton University, UK, has extensive research experience, with an intense publishing activity (over 17 books, 100 research papers, 11 Best Paper Awards), and over 30 research and educational projects, mainly funded by the European Commission. She is passionate about ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people's lives.
Dr. Andone actively promotes the use of OER, MOOCs and open education principles, developing UniCampus.eu for digital skills training, acting in international associations (EDEN, IEEE, AACE, IADIS, IAFES,) actively supports the local start-up movement (StartUp Weekend, HackTM, hackathons, CoderDojo) and Girls in Tech, Women in Tech and STEM education. She also works on the Board of Directors of Romanian NGOs (Fundația Pentru Voi), in Timișoara 2021 European Capital of Culture Task Force and in other volunteer organizations. Dr. Andone is an EDEN Senior Fellow, IEEE Education Society 2021 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award recipient, EDEN Vice President for Communication and Communities (2018-2021) and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society (2021-present), and within the IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair (2019-present).
Judith Cosgrove | Online
European Commission, Joint Research Centre.
Judith Cosgrove lucrează în cadrul Unității pentru economie digitală a Centrului Comun de Cercetare (JRC) al Comisiei Europene din Sevilla. Activitatea sa se concentrează pe competențele digitale (gestionarea cadrului DigComp) și analiza competențelor digitale.
Before joining the JRC, she had worked in various roles, including Chief Executive Officer of the Educational Research Centre in Ireland, overseeing research projects, test development, national and international studies, and program evaluations.
She has collaborated internationally in several roles, including as Ireland's governing board representative on OECD's PISA and PIAAC studies, as well as national project manager on OECD's PISA study. She holds a PhD in comparative education and a Master’s in psychology.
Ilona Buchem | Online
Universitatea Beuth, Berlin
Ilona Buchem este profesor de media și comunicare la Universitatea Beuth din Berlin, Facultatea I Economie și Științe Sociale. Deține o diplomă de doctorat în domeniul Educației în Afaceri de la Universitatea Humboldt din Berlin, Certificat în Administrarea Afacerilor de la Universitatea St. Gallen din Elveția și Master în Lingvistică Aplicată și Comunicare de la Universitatea din Varșovia (Polonia). Ilona Buchem a condus o serie de proiecte de cercetare și dezvoltare, inclusiv recentul proiect Open Virtual Mobility (Erasmus +, Parteneriatul strategic 2017-2020), Rețeaua Open Badge (Erasmus +, Parteneriatul strategic 2014-2017), BeuthBonus și CreditPoints Migrant Academics ca parte a Programului federal german “IQ – Integrare prin calificare”, 2013-2020), Digital Future (Strategii digitale pentru învățământul superior, Stifterverband – Asociația Germană a Fundațiilor pentru Știință, 2015-2017), Wikipedia-Diversitate – , în colaborare cu Wikimedia Germania, care promovează integrarea perspectivei de gen în Wikipedia germană.
Nataliia Ponomarova | FIZIC
HS Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Doctor of Science (Pedagogical Sciences), PhD (Pedagogical Sciences), Full Professor. Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. Has 30 years of experience in the introduction of information and communication technologies to the educational process in educational institutions of various levels, with personal experience in teaching Computer Science disciplines in secondary and higher education institutions.
Project coordinator and speaker of the regional centre of mixed education Skovoroda-hub H.S.Skovoroda KhNPU. Member of the improvement of scientific qualification and internships abroad. Member of the association PA "International Association of Researchers in Mathematics Didactics".
The scientific adviser of dissertations and master's theses. Member of the editorial board of the specialized scientific and information journal "New College". She has authored and co-authored about 200 publications, among which about 50 are related to the subject of the project
Nadiia Olefirenko | FIZIC
HS Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Doctor of Science (Pedagogical Sciences), PhD (Pedagogical Sciences), Full Professor, 25 years of teaching experience.
The research interests focus on the field of training teachers of Computer Science, utilizing ICT in education, designing e-resources for teaching, and the didactics of informatics.
The author has more than 240 scientific and methodical publications, as well as textbooks, educational, and training manuals for pre-service teachers and schoolchildren.
She is a member of the Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for the development of the standard of higher education, specialty A4: Secondary Education.
She is a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals on education, a specialist in assessing open-ended responses related to competence orientation in mathematics for PISA 2018 and 2022. ORCID, Web of Science, Scopus.
Ganna Krapivnyk | FIZIC
HS Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
PhD (Philology), DSc in Philosophy of Culture, associate professor, 19 years of teaching experience.
Research interests focus on second language teaching methodology, language learning for special purposes, and linguo-cultural studies.
CELTA certified, NVC certified, Malteser psychosocial counselling project coordination, Access Microscholarship teaching and curriculum development, Pre-Service ELT Methodology Program (supported by US Embassy), participation in IVLP program.
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