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Emelie Stenborg is Head of the International Office at the Faculty of Engineering LTH at Lund University. The International Office administrates exchange studies, master programmes and PhD studies. It is also responsible for the faculty agreements and networks. Emelie is the T.I.M.E. coordinator for Lund University and member of the Advisory Committee.

Director for International Development at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de St-Etienne since 2014. In charge of international development, institutional partners abroad, agreements and international projects. Responsible for the development in Brazil for the Institute Mines-Télécom. Before (2010-2014) International Project Manager at Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne. Before, Professor of ‘Corporate International strategy’ and ‘Management’ at the Institute of Technology St-Etienne.

As the Director of International Affairs at ITBA, Germán is responsible for designing and implementing the university's internationalization policy. Prior to joining ITBA, he spent seven years managing various international projects at the University of Cuyo. Germán also worked as a consultant for the Human and Social Sciences Sector at UNESCO HQs in Paris. He holds a BA in International Relations from Congreso University in Argentina and an MSc in International Economics, Business, and Cultural Diplomacy from the University of Furtwangen in Germany.

Lourdes Reig, PhD in Marine Science and MSC in Scientific Communication, is Associate Professor at the UPC. She has developed studies and been visiting professor at different universities in Europe and the USA.  She has held several management positions at the UPC. Currently, she’s vice-rector for International Policy at UPC, promoting a comprehensive internationalization of all university missions and collectives, as well as keeping and improving the international relations of UPC and its international outreach.

Julie McDonald is Irish by birth, & Parisian by adoption. After a stormy theatrical career, she moved to France, & now works across CentraleSupélec Language & International Departments. She develops & strengthens links between partners in the T.I.M.E Network & beyond, including Telecollaboration & Tandem classes spanning continents. Julie’s teaching dovetails with her work on interculturality, & implementing EMI policies at CS. She holds degrees in Drama & Theatre Studies from RHUL, Anglophone Literature & Cinema from the Sorbonne, Paris, & a national MA in Teaching & Pedagogy. 

Assistant professor, received PhD degree from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland) in 2020, with research interest in electrical engineering, mainly in power system protection methods. Since 2017, International Programmes Coordinator on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering  responsible for the realization of Double Degree programs.

KTH Vice President with responsibility for Education. Professor of Acoustics.  Vice President for Education, KTH, from 2019. Member KTH Strategic Council from 2017. Chairperson First- and Second-Cycle Programmes Committee from 2019

Education background

Professor in Engineering Acoustics. KTH, 2003; Docent in Engineering Acoustics. KTH, 2002; Doctor of Technology in Engineering Acoustics. KTH, 1998; Master of Science in Engineering, Engineering Physics programme. KTH, 1987.

Julie Defretin has worked in internationalisation of higher education/student services/international mobility programs and international recruitment for almost 20 years. As a French coordinator of the British Universities North America Club (BUNAC) in the UK, USA and France, she recruited, supervised and advised hundreds of French students on work abroad and travel programmes. Julie organized and administrated for 2 years the Lille European Summer Program at Lille Catholic University in France, a four-week academic course offering to students and professors from around the world the opportunity to experience French culture firsthand at the heart of Europe, and be part of an international, multicultural student community. The following 3 years, Julie was responsible for the International Relations Office of Estice Business School at Lille Catholic University in France, where she created, developed and consolidated international cooperation agreements for international student mobility. In 2010, she moved to Montréal and joined Polytechnique Montréal as Head of the International Mobility Program at the Student Services, where she led on incoming and outgoing mobility programs and developed strategies for increasing the outbound mobility. Since 2015, as Strategic Advisor – Internationalisation at Polytechnique Montréal International, she is responsible for developing strategic partnerships for education and research collaborations in Europe, consolidating existing partnerships, diversifying the academic and research offer and supporting Polytechnique’s internationalisation and outreach strategy. Julie holds a Master’s degree in Business and Foreign Applied Languages from Lille Catholic University, France and Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, as well as a certificate in intercultural communication from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Assistant professor at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WrocławTech); PhD in philosophy, MA in law. She specializes in ethics; authored a monograph on J.S.Mill, awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science. Her research interests are applied ethics and technology assessment. She is committed to implementing innovative teaching methods. As the member of the Equality Policy Team and Anti -Discrimination Committee she co-authored the Gender Equality Plan for WrocławTech.

Marie Christine Bert studied economics, holding master degrees from a business school and from Sorbonne University. She has extensive experience in international relations acquired in the maritime transportation, data industry and as a tech entrepreneur laureate of the i-Lab competition of the French Ministry of Research. She has been in higher education for 20 years, having led the executive education programs at ESCP Europe and later at HEC Paris. Since 2015 she has been in charge of international relations and corporate partnerships at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, member of the management commiteed.

Mirko Varano serves as Senior Advisor International Projects at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Mirko has been active in the field of internationalisation of higher education for the past 30 years covering different position at a number of HEIs and associations. He previously served at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology as a member of the international strategy group from 2013 to 2016. He is currently an adviser for international projects at the same institution, where he also currently serves as Key Liaison Officer for the Unite! EUI Alliance. He was involved in one of the first selected Erasmus Mundus projects in 2023 and he has coordinated a number of projects on the impact of Joint Programmes on HEIs and graduates. He currently co-chairs the FOR-EU subgroup on the Joint European Degree, and he is involved in the ED-AFFICHE project piloting the Joint European Degree Label. Mirko was elected Chair of the Expert Community European Collaborative Programmes for the 2020-2022 and 2022–2024 terms.

Director of International Education, DTU

Professional Experience

Since 2012 Director of International Education, DTU Oversees all matters relating to international education and incoming and outgoing mobility of students, including DTU's relations with partner institutions. Responsible for DTU´s strategy for attraction and retention of international students. Responsible for DTU Career Centre 2007-12 Head of Division, Ministry of Science and HE Head of Study in Denmark.

Norihisa Miki received Ph.D. in mechano-informatics from University of Tokyo in 2001.Then, he worked at MIT microengine project as a posdoc (2001-2003), later as a research engineer (2003-2004). He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University in 2004 and became a full professor in 2017. His research interests cover medical engineering, neuroscience, and media arts. He is the chair of international affairs at Faculty of Science and Technology since 2019 and the program coordinator of JEMARO program at Keio. He is currently a head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and designing a curriculum with an emphasis on international activities, arts, and entrepreneurship. He is a Director of Keio Ice Skating Club.

Pierre Dehombreux is a Full Professor and Head of the Lab for Machine Design and Production Engineering at the University of Mons. He is the President of the UMONS Research Institute for the Science and Management of Risks. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Polytech Mons or FPMs) in 1989, where he got his PhD in Applied Sciences in 1995. Assistant in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Dynamics and Vibration, his research at that time embraced the numerical simulation of multibody systems and the experimental identification of dynamic solicitations as well. In 2000, he was appointed in the Department of Machine Design and Production. He is in charge of the courses of dimensional metrology, machine design (including gears), reliability and maintenance of industrial equipment. Mechanical design projects for engineering students are the core of his teaching activity. He is directior for a specialised master on Total Quality Management. His current research activities are related to the estimation of residual lifetime of industrial equipment, from physics-of-failure models, statistical analysis or degradation measurements, in the perspective of an optimal predictive maintenance policy integrating sustainability indicators . He conducted research programs in this field for different industrial contexts (steel, railway, automotive, composite parts, pharma, telecommunications, …). Next one will involve Cameroon universities for sustainable production of composite products including natural fibers. He served previously as Vice-rector for international relations of the University of Mons from 2010 till  2014 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2014 to 2018. He has contributed to many international projects including Morocco, China, Canada, Brazil, Cameroon, and Chile. As current international advisor, he is the delegate for the T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network of the Faculty of Engineering of UMONS.

T.I.M.E. Coordinator Centrale Lille Institut

An English educator with 30+ years’ experience in France, he has taught at both university and industry level. He moved to Centrale Lille in 1999, becoming Head of Languages for 19 years. While cultivating students' speaking skills, he's also been deeply involved in international relations, fostering collaborations within and beyond the TIME network. He believes that international experiences should be obligatory for cross-cultural understanding. He recently participated in an Erasmus+ project about VR in teaching. He's the author of  'The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went', on WWI soldier poetry.

Senior Advisor for International Relations at KTH International Relations Office Administrative co-ordinator of the T.I.M.E. Association at KTH since many years. Working with international analysis and policy issues connected to international cooperation. Responsible for the process of student exchange agreements at KTH, that is the strategic prioritizing of university partners and the dimensioning of student exchange. Administrative co-ordinator at KTH for the Deans' Forum network, and for the partnership with the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Responsible for supporting the development of bilateral Dual Degree-agreements on master's level and PhD-level.

Francesca Fogal holds a Master’s Degree in Modern languages and Literature and she has been working in the field of international education at Politecnico di Milano since 2001. She is currently working in the International Relations Unit of Politecnico di Milano. During her professional experience she has acquired skills in partnerships and networks, international agreements, as well as international mobility, and the promotion and management of EU-funded projects. She has been serving in boards of international university associations. 

Secretary for international relations at Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Naples Federico II of Naples since 2013. In charge of Erasmus study mobility, Erasmus traineeship, international agreements, Double Degree, Joint Programmes, procedures concerning the welcome of international students and visiting professors. Member of the Erasmus and Internationalization Committee at the Department of Industrial Engineering. Member of Fraunhofer Joint Laboratory IDEAS (Interactive Design And Simulation) established in 2012 by DII, the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy) and by Fraunhofer IWU, the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (Chemnitz, Germany).

Cecilia Provost, European and International Project Manager at the International Relations Department of Centrale Nantes (France), and member of the Erasmus Mundus Association for Consortia (EM-ACT) board committee.

She has more than 12 years of experience in the management of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programmes alongside with 4 academic coordinators. Since 2018, she has been working on supporting professors in creating and coordinating new Erasmus+ joint Masters’ projects.

Cludia Hanke has been working in the International Office of RWTH Aachen University for more than 30 years. The Erasmus Institutional Coordinator involved in the T.I.M.E. double degree programme and the exchange scheme with Ecole Centrale Paris (today CentraleSupélec) - the first double degree programme ever at RWTH which helped a lot (the hard way) about how to design double degree programmes in general. Currently responsible for agreements with international partner universities in general and double degree programmes in particular.

Professor of Wroclaw Tech. Member of the Department of Management Systems and Organisation Development, Faculty of Management, since 2020 Vice-Dean for Student Affairs, Faculty of Management, Wrocław Tech. Leader of 3 international consortia implementing joint projects under the Erasmus+ programme since 2015. Since 2022 leader of "An Open Innovation Community for Green Transition" within the alliance of European universities Unite!. Since 2023 leader of the NAWA project, "Green Transition in Ukrainian Universities" implemented jointly with the Unite!

Kerstin Jenkes studied physics at RWTH Aachen University and completed PhD at the Institute for High Voltage Technology. After graduating from university first worked at Saint Gobain in Herzogenrath in research and development and then as a teacher of mathematics and physics at a grammar school in Bavaria. Since 2008,  has been a student advisor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen and since 2019 additionally Exchange Coordinator of the faculty.

Ewa Mroczek - graduate in roman philology of the University of Wrocław and postgraduate studies in the Executive MBA programme at the Polish - American School of Business at Wrocław University of Science Technology.

Head of the Division of Foreign Students Admission and Support in the International Relations Office WUST and T.I.M.E. Coordinator. Chair of the IROs Forum in 2014. Author of the article Summer Schools - a way to internationalise universities in the publication Time for Internationalisation II. Perspectives, priorities, projects. Perspektywy 2017

He is employed at the Wrocław University of Technology (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) since 2009. He received his PhD in technical sciences (mechanics) in 2013 and habilitation (in mechanical engineering) in 2020. His scientific activities are related to mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue of materials and structures, as well as new materials and modelling their durability under cyclic and static loads. He has over 109 scientific papers published in national and international scientific and technical journals and over 100 conference papers and 1 patent in this field. Currently, Prof. Lesiuk is a President of Polisg Fracture Mechanics Group. He is also a member of Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and ESIS (European Structural Integrity Society). As part of his teaching activities, he gives lectures and exercises in courses on mechanics, the strength of materials, fracture mechanics, lightweight structures, dimensional analysis, fatigue and fracture of materials and structures. He is a co-author of an academic textbook on mechanics and a co-author of a monograph (Springer) devoted to the problems of degradation of materials and structures. He is also the supervisor and co-supervisor of nine doctoral dissertations in Poland, Portugal and Brazil. For years he has been intensively cooperating with foreign centres in Europe (mainly in Porto, Coimbra - Portugal, Oviedo - Spain, Milano, Bologna - Italy, Brno, Prague - Czech Republic, Lviv, Kiev - Ukraine, Chemnitz, Kaiserslautern - Germany, Trondheim-Norway, Nove Mesto - Slovenia) and outside Europe (Brazil - Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, China - Chengdu, USA - Michigan, Canada - Waterloo, Zabol-Iran, Boumerdes- Algeria). He is co-organizer of many international and national scientific events such as XXICMFM (International Colloquium Mechanical Fatigue of Metals), XVIII KKMP (National Conference on Fracture Mechanics), 1st VCMF (Virtual Conference on Fatigue of Metals), IX Symposium - Laminated Structures and creator of a new initiative in the form of Polish-Czech-German-Ukrainian winter school of Degradation and fatigue and fracture. He was repeatedly awarded for his scientific activities: Admission as a member of the Academy of Young Scientists and Artists operating at the President of the City of Wroclaw (Poland) - nomination received from the President of the City of Wroclaw (2018), Rector's Award of Wroclaw University of Technology (2018, 2020), International ESIS Award - TC12 (Merit Award) 2019 and 2 international TOP 1% Reviewers (Publons&Web of Science) awards - 2019, Lierati Award (2019) - Emerald Journals Group. In 2021, Professor Grzegorz Lesiuk was listed in TOP2% cited researchers (prepared by the Stanford University in cooperation with the Elsevier publishing company).

Dr. Marquez received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM, Spain) in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a full-time Professor in the Dep. of Mechanical Engineering at ETSII-UPM. His research work focuses on the design and development of high precision manufacturing systems and polymer microfabrication technologies. He has led two research projects in the area of MEMS micromanufacturing, and he has participated as associate researcher in many others. He has led seven education innovation projects funded by UPM, and currently he is the head of Education Innovation Group of Manufacturing Engineering. He has been visiting professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) in 1996, 2005 and 2009, collaborating in research groups at the Manufacturing Research Center. He is the Vice-Dean for Internationalization at ETSII-UPM since 2011, and the T.I.M.E. Association UPM delegate since 2018.

Elżbieta Zienkiewicz is an associate professor, an accredited tutor and certified educational leader at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wrocław Tech), Poland. Since 2018 a local administrator of the CNE Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Wrocław. A key-member of the Centre for Educational Excellence at Wroclaw Tech, responsible for the STEM branch and networking. Areas of expertise: solid state physical chemistry and statistical thermodynamics.

Jolanta Warchol is a professor in the Faculty of Chemistry at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland. She deals with sorption processes in solid-liquid and solid-gas systems, particularly in toxic chemicals removal from natural environment and in synthesis, modification and characterization of sorption materials. She was EU Maria Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in Finland and Fulbright Fellow in USA. She works as an expert in European Union Horizon 2020 and UNESCO-IHE programmers. Currently, she participate in two projects supported by OPCW: in a frame of Research Programme: Biomass Valorization to Enhance Efficiency of Toxic Metals Bioremediation from Military, and in a frame of Fellowship Programme (as a Host supervisor): The impact of Military Action on Natural Environment in Ukraine. She coordinates the EU Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program Sustainable Biomass and Bioproducts Engineering dedicated for talented MSc students from developing countries.

Didier Clouteau is Distinguished Professor at University of Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris (MS 1987, PhD 1990), INP Grenoble (HdR 2001), College of Higher Studies for the Environment and Sustainable Development (2011). He worked for Tractebel Engineering, CNRS, Ecole Centrale Paris and Ecole Polytechnique in France and Mahindra Ecole Centrale in India. He now chairs the Department of Mechanics, Energetics and Bio-chemical Eng.  and acts as Vice-President of the Board of Governors. His research interests are focused on earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, numerical and probabilistic methods, statistical and machine learning in mechanics. He has supervised more than 20 PhD theses, authored 80+ scientific papers, coordinated several national (ANR, PIA) and European research programs, and served as scientific expert for several private companies and national agencies.