Katerina Papakonstantinou
Greek Research & Technology Network
Contact by mailShe is currently working with the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring, quality, financial control and final evaluation of ICT European Projects and a number of national ICT Projects funded by the EC (Structural Fonds), aiming at strengthening business competitiveness and exploitation in the new digital market and supporting electronic entrepreneurship in SMEs. In this framework, she has worked amongst others, as a Project Manager of the following: • FORSOCIETY ERA-NET, a network where national foresight programme managers co-ordinated their activities and developed and implemented efficient trans-national foresight programmes for national and European research and innovation systems (http://cordis.europa.eu/publication/rcn/15098_en.html ERANET Scheme). • Rural Inclusion, a project that aimed at adopting a state-of-art infrastructure (i.e. modelling approach and software environment) that will facilitate the offering of innovative services by public administration in rural areas (http://www.rural-inclusion.eu ICT-PSP Project). • Organic Balkanet, a project with the aim of facilitating the transfer of innovative training practices and e-learning content to the case of vocational education of young and unemployed agricultural professionals, as well as to agricultural professionals in new EU members (www.organic-balkanet.eu - Lifelong Learning Programme). She is currently working as a Project Manager of the following Projects: • GreeNET project, a network that aims to address the increasing necessity to develop an integrative approach in environmental sciences. By collecting ground-breaking initiatives in the area of environmental education and green careers counseling, it will disseminate and inspire good practices. The formed network will take up the results and use them in a way that generates new ideas and innovative solutions, achieving extended awareness-raising on environmental issues (http://greenet.ea.gr/ Lifelong Learning Programme). • eParents Training Academy of the Open Discovery Space Project, a socially-powered and multiligual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of e-learning resources, (http://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu/ CIP-Pilot Action). In her previous job by FFG, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency - the national funding institution for applied research and development, she was responsible for the evaluation of the IST and the eContent Programme proposals. Furthermore, she was Member of the Management Committee for the eContent Programme (Austrian Delegation). In 2005, she was nominated Reviewer for the eContent Programme. Katerina Papakonstantinou received her Bachelor of Arts Honours in European Business Economics, with upper second class from the Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, England and a second degree (Europäische Betriebswirtschaftslehre) from the German Fachhochschule Landshut in Landshut, Germany. She holds a Master’s degree on Advanced Studies in European Integration from the Danube Universität of Krems in Krems, Austria.