Eglantina Gishti is an associate professor at the University of Tirana, specializing in Natural Language Processing, computational linguistics, and language data analysis. She has coordinated numerous national and international projects and currently serves as the national coordinator (UT) for the UNINOVIS Alliance. This initiative aspires to establish itself as a leading European University in Applied Data Science, promoting excellence, inclusion, sustainability, and innovation."

Antoaneta Irikova is Policy Officer in he International cooperation unit of the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), in the European Commission.

Maria Kelo is Director of Institutional Development at European University Association (EUA). The unit’s work focuses on recognition, quality assurance, rankings, and learning and teaching, including the European Degree. She is a member of the Swiss Accreditation Council, vice-president of the European Quality Assurance Register, and co-represents EUA in the Bologna Process.

Before joining EUA in 2022, Maria was the Director of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, and previously worked in different European organisations in higher education

Nadia Manzoni is currently a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna and a fellow of the Yehuda Elkana Centre for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education Research at CEU. She researches the dynamics of European policymaking in the area of higher education on the case of the European Universities Initiative.  She entered academia having worked for nearly 10 years as an education analyst and policy officer and, most recently, as a team leader for the Erasmus+ programme in higher education in the European Commission's Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. Her educational background is in Education studies and German language (University of Cambridge) and European studies (University of Vienna). She recently participated in over 20 study programme and institutional evaluations as a student expert in accreditation procedures of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency.

Angeliki Psychogyiou is Policy and Project Coordinator at the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA), where she leads initiatives on digitalisation, sustainability, and international cooperation in higher education. She coordinates ACA’s Thematic Peer Group on New Mobility Formats, advancing discussions on digitally enhanced and sustainable mobility models, and currently oversees ACA’s participation in the European Digital Education Hub, where she has led the working group on sustainability in digital education.

Angeliki is also the project coordinator of HIBLend, an Erasmus+ project enhancing institutional capacity to implement high-quality blended mobility. With extensive experience in the design and evaluation of EU-funded education initiatives, she regularly supports National Agencies in reviewing Erasmus+ proposals, including those related to external action instruments.

Before joining ACA, she worked in institutional cooperation at the University of Paris 8, managing Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) partnerships with institutions in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Balkans. She later joined the European Vocational Training Association (EVTA), overseeing a portfolio of EU-funded skills and employability projects.