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Keynote Speakers

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Myzafere Krasniqi-Limani

Kosova Academy of Sciences and Art (Kosova)

Myzafere Krasniqi-Limani was born in Peja in 1954. In the years 1973-1978 she studied at the Technical Faculty of the University of Prishtina in the field of electronics and telecommunications. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Electrotechnics of the University of Belgrade in 1988. Due to political circumstances, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Prishtina in 2000. In the years 1978-1979 she worked as a technical director at the PTT company in Peja. From March 1979, she was part of the regular academic staff of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Pristina as a full professor until 2020. She was the head of the electronics department at FIEK, in two periods 1997-2006 and 2012-2020, vice-dean at FIEK in the years 1995-1997, Dean of FIEK in the period 2006-2012, while in 2006/07 she was a member of the Expert Group for Higher Education Policies at MEST, Chairwoman of the State Council for Higher Education at MEST from 2009, vice-chairwoman of the Council for Science of MEST (2010-2015), chairwoman of the Scientific Council of MEST from (2015-2019), member of the Council of the University of Pristina (March 2020 June 2020). In 2022, she was elected President of the National Science Council of Kosovo. She has carried out study visits, lectured and collaborated on projects with foreign universities, including: University of Corinth, Greece; University of La Rochelle, France; University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany; University of Applied Sciences, Joanneum, Graz, Austria; University of Pittsburgh, USA; Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, ​​Spain; Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary; La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; University of Zagreb, Croatia; Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania; University of Gävle, Sweden; University of Skopje, Macedonia; University of Split, Croatia; Technical University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Metrology Center Paris, France; and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Dr. Jeff Terrell

Lincoln Memorial University (USA)

Jeff Terrell will be serving as an English Language Fellow in Pristina Kosovo this year. He graduated with a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Then obtained his masters in education from Kennesaw State University and his Doctorate in Education from Lincoln Memorial University. He has taught English language in China and the U.S. Jeff enjoys traveling, meeting new people, and learning—from reading a book and from life experience.

ACR: ZSI Zentrum für soziale Innovation

Dr. Klaus Schuch

Centre for Social Innovation (Austria)

Sher international Expert

Dr. Klaus Schuch is expert on techno-globalisation, international R&I cooperation, R&I policies, and evaluation. Klaus is director and senior scientist at ZSI (Centre for Social Innovation), Austria. Since May 2012, Klaus is also managing director of the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation. Klaus is and was engaged in a large number of national and international projects. From 2009 to 2012 he analysed the Austrian R&I policy and its implementation under ERAWATCH and was national correspondent for the EC’s R&I Observatory (2015-2019). In 2007 he was scientific expert of the CREST Working Group on internationalisation in S&T and in 2012 member of the external expert group of the European Commission to advice on the European R&I-internationalisation strategy. In 2016/2017 he was delegated to the ERAC Working Group on Impact Measurement. In 2018 and 2019, Klaus was Rapporteur of the PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on National Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in R&I. He was Austrian delegate to the European RTD Evaluation Network and member of the COST Scientific Committee (2016-2019). In 2022 he acted as Rapporteur of the PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on Foreign Interference in R&I, advising several EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe. Klaus was many years also member of the Commission for Development Research of the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (former Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) (2006-2018). Klaus is advisor to several Austrian agencies and ministries dealing with research, innovation and technology and he is one of the main authors of the yearly Austrian Report on Research and Technology (FTB) issued by BMBWF, BMK and BMAW. As of 2014 Klaus is lecturing Techno-globalisation at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna.