List of Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts

EU Member States

Country - system	Name and surname	Institution and department	Function	Email
Austria	Kurt Schmid	IBW Research	Researcher
Belgium – Flemish community	Carl Lamote	Ministry of Education	Policy Officer
Belgium – French community	Michel Urbain	OFFA	Chargé de missions
Belgium – German-speaking community	Verena Greten	Institute for vocational education and training	Executive Director
Bulgaria	Petya Evtimova	Project Management Unit DOMINO	Team Leader
Croatia	Božo Pavičin	Croatian Chamber of Commerce - education division	Head of Division
Cyprus	Elias Margadjis	Ministry of Education and Culture	Director of Secondary Technical and Vocational Education
Czech Republic	Irena Palánová	National Institute for Education, Department for International Cooperation	Head of Department
Denmark	Jan Bisgaard	University College Copenhagen / Danish Centre for the Development of Vocational Education and Training (NCE)	Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Estonia	Karin Ruul	Vocational Education Department, Ministry of Education and Research	Chief expert
Finland	Riikka Vacker	Finnish National Agency for Education	Counsellor of Education
France	Romain Pigeaud	Centre-Inffo	Senior national expert, direction du droit de la formation
Germany	Isabelle Le Mouillour	Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training	Head of Area
Greece	Olga Kafetzopoulou	Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs	Head of the Apprenticeship and Work based learning Department
Hungary
Italy	Alessandra Biancolini	ANPAL	Executive
Ireland	Alan McGrath	SOLAS (Further Education and Training Authority)	Director of Apprenticeship and Work Based Learning
Latvia	Ilze Buligina	Department of vocational and adult education, Ministry of Education and Science	Senior expert
Lithuania	Lina Vaitkutė	Qualifications and VET Development Centre	Head of Qualifications Formation Unit
Luxembourg	Diana Reiners	Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth, Vocational Education Service	Employee, Reporting to the director
Malta	Vincent Maione	National Skills Council, Ministry of Education and Employment	Chief Executive
Netherlands	Robert van Wezel	SBB	Senior Policy Advisor
Poland	Andrzej Stępnikowski	Łukasiewicz-Research Network, Institute for Sustainable Technologies, Centre for Vocational Education Research and Development	Researcher, Ph. D.
Portugal	Fernanda Ferreira	Directorate-General for Employment and Industrial Relations (DGERT)	Senior advisor
Romania	Ana Radulescu	Ministry of Labour and Social Justice	Superior counsellor Employment, Competences and Vocational Mobility Policies
Slovakia
Slovenia	Darko Mali	Institute of VET	Head of Department
Spain
Sweden	Lotta Naglitsch	Lärlingsutvecklarna i Sverige AB - Apprenticeship developers in Sweden AB	CEO

Other countries

Country/system	Name and surname	Institution and department	Function	Email
UK - England	Andrea Laczik	Edge Foundation	Head of Research
UK - Northern Ireland	Clement Athanasiou	Department for the Economy	Head of Vocational Education Policy
UK - Scotland	George Brown	Scottish Accreditation Authority, Accreditation	Head of accreditation
UK - Wales
Iceland	Elsa Eiríksdóttir	School of Education, University of Iceland	Associate Professor
Norway	Astrid Kristin Moen Sund	Union of Education Norway	Senior advisor/expert on VET