Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dallago, Bruno, PhD

Full professor, Department of Economics and Management,

University of Trento, Trento, Italy

KEYNOTE TOPIC : " The Challenges of the European Higher Education"

Prof. Dallago, was a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, USA, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hitotsubashi University, Zhejian University, Kyoto University, the University of Pécs, Tshwane University of Technology, Corvinus University of Budapest. He was the president of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research interests include the European Union, comparative economics, the transforming economies of Central and East Europe, SMEs and entrepreneurship, local development. He is the author and editor of several scholarly books and journal articles, including One Currency, Two Europe (World Scientific, 2016), Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (with Steven Rosefielde, Routledge, 2016) and A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis (with Gert Guri and John McGowan, eds., Routledge, 2016).

Prof. Mario Brun
Director
Centre for Innovation and Development in Education and Technology
Argentina

KEYNOTE TOPIC : "The role of digital technologies in transforming the future of initial teacher training"

Prof. Mario Brun is a researcher in the field of digital technologies in Education, who currently leads the Centre for Innovation and Development on Education and Technology (CIDET), a research institute in Argentina. He acts, as well, as Senior Consultant for different international agencies: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB); the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), among others. He has also conducted diverse research projects for universities in Chile and Argentina; he wrote book chapters and published papers in a number of journals, and he also lectured in different international events about Education in general, and ICT in Education in particular.  He is the author and editor of several scholarly books and journal articles, including "Teacher Education in Chile: Towards a high-quality teacher education, to consolidate the achievements of Chilean education system". In K. Karras & C. Wolhuter (Eds.), International Handbook of Teacher Education Worldwide (pp. 269-291),  "ICT integration in Initial Teacher Training in Latin America". In M. T.Lugo (Ed.), Informe sobre tendencias sociales y educativas en América Latina 2014 (pp. 245-247). Buenos Aires: IIPE-UNESCO.