Hana Danihelkova is an expert in adult education who studied at the University of Olomouc. She has participated in the EU educational programme Socrates, coordinating 3 projects of which one received an award from the Evens Foundation in Belgium. Hana is a member of Grundtvig Working Group in Brussels and as a promoter of the Grundtvig action in the Czech Republic she actively supports the development of adult education in this country.

Koen DePryck received his Masters Degree in philosophy from the University of Gent (Belgium) and his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. After a career as a researcher for the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders and as lecturer in philosophy, epistemology, systems analysis, databases and programming he was appointed Principal and CEO of the Centre for Adult Education Antwerpen-Zuid. He heads the Institute of Knowledge Management in Brussels. He has authored or co-authored several books and articles and lectures worldwide on the evolutionary aspect of learning and learning difficulties, the design, and management of learning environments and the implementation of ODL.  He also designs and programs educational software and tools for learning organisations.

Kerttu Lõhmus is an e-learning consultant and member of the board of Ärireklaam Ltd (www.eprojekt.ee). She has a background in information studies and experience in adult education since 1996 and in the field of e-learning since 2000, with the main focus on instructional methods and content design. Her day-to-day work includes creating (together with subject matter experts) instructionally sound study materials to aid maximum learning effect.

Rosa Maria Miranda graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon in metallurgical engineering and has a PhD in mining engineering. She is a professor in the sciences education department of Universidade Aberta and a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation (CEEI - Universidade Aberta). She has been involved in the development of quality system for assessing quality in distance UCE courses since 2000 and has participated in accreditation activities of university degree courses from 1998 to 2004.  She was responsible to the ANB at ISQ accredited by the EWF and IIW according to ISO 9000. She is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications, including five textbooks.

Alda Maria Pereira is a graduate of Coimbra University in physics and chemistry, has a Masters Degree in education from Lisbon University and a PhD in Education from Universidade Aberta.  She is Head of the sciences education department, a professor in the same unit and a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation (CEEI - Universidade Aberta).  Her research is in the fields of visual semiotics in educational communication, the pedagogy of distance and online education, and models and methods of teaching, particularly in respect of science teaching.

Pia Melchior Petersen is a lecturer in adult education at CVU FYN and works with adult teacher training domestically and abroad. She gained a masters in pedagogy, from the Danish Pedagogical University in 2004.

Sirje Plaks works for the Association of Estonian Adult Educators as a project co-ordinator. She co-ordinates national Adult Learners Week concerning dissemination of the idea of life-long learning involving communication with various organisations and people.  Her previous experience as a training manager and as a creator of her own training centre have benefited her present job. She graduated from Tartu University with a diploma in administrative law.

Pamela Roccio is the Childcare Co-ordinator in Edinburgh University
Settlement's 2nd Chance to Learn programme.  Her academic background
includes psychology, social policy, sociology, and forensic medicine and
science. Pamela also coordinates a project placing childcare modules online.

Rachel Savage was the Core Skills Co-ordinator in Edinburgh University
Settlement's 2nd Chance to Learn programme.  She has a background in the
social sciences.  At the time of writing she was Edinburgh University Settlement's Communication and Research Officer involved in marketing, budgeting and publicity for
all of EUS's projects.

Rikke Schultz became master in pedagogy in 1998 from the Royal Danish Academy of Education, and she was qualified as lector in didactic in 2001. She works with teacher training in adult as well as in general education, and she works in CVU FYN’s knowledge centre with competence development and in service training. Earlier she has been working with integration programmes for immigrants in Denmark, introduction of new technology for women, and as a teacher in general subjects at Odense Technical College. She has since 1977 been an active member of The Danish Organisation for International Corporation, in Denmark known as MS. She is an active member of the board of the AWE-chapter in Denmark (Association for World Education), an organisation with adviser status to UNESCO.

António Moreira Teixeira is a graduate of Lisbon University in philosophy and has a Masters Degree and PhD also in philosophy from the same university. He is a Professor in the Universidade Aberta’s educational sciences department in Lisbon, and a researcher at both the Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation (CEEI - Universidade Aberta) and the Philosophy Centre at Lisbon University.  He has been involved in the design and development of a quality system for continuous evaluation of distance learning courses since 2000 and has taken part in external evaluation panels for the Portuguese national university evaluation council (CNAVES) since 1997, being responsible for the production of all reports on philosophy courses. He also gave lectures as part of training workshops for future CNAVES evaluation experts and teaches the subject of systems evaluation at Universidade Aberta. He is the author or co-author of over 30 scientific publications.

Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen is a lecturer in history; she is Coordinator for Distance Learning at CVU FYN/Odense Lærerseminarium.

Sophie Van der Avort received her Masters Degree in Romance languages from the University of Antwerp (Belgium).  Since 2001, she has been Vice-Principal of the Centre for Adult Education Antwerpen-Zuid where she is in charge of human resources and academic affairs. She is currently actively involved in the implementation of ODL and in the introduction of a virtual community for the staff of the centre.

Sven Van Elst worked for the Centre for Language and Speech at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) from 1994 until 2004. During this period he was mainly involved in the management of EU projects and the development of ODL materials for foreign language acquisition.

At present he is working as the personal assistant of an MP in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.