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Mr. Franz Wolfmayr Panel member, Plenary session 5 Speaker, Workshop 5 Franz Wolfmayr lives in Gleisdorf (AT). He is founder and general manager of Chance B - Enterprises, service providers for persons with disabilities in Austria. He also is founder and acting president of Die Steirische Behindertenhilfe, the regional umbrella for all disability related tasks in Styria, one of the 9 Austrian provinces. He was elected vice-president of EASPD in 2003 and in 2008 was elected President. He studied sociology and pedagogy and has much experience teaching children with disabilities, training teachers and staff working with persons with disabilities, working as consultant for communities and governments, and developing community based services for persons with disabilities, children and elderly people. Mr. Zoltán Gloviczki Panel member, Plenary session 5 Dr. Zoltán Gloviczki is the Deputy State Secretary of Public Educations at the Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary. Before that, he taught at the Németh László Secondary School in Budapest for two decades, meanwhile he also worked as an education methodology professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. His PhD was specialized in language and ancient times sciences. He was honored several times for his diverse work. According to dr. Zoltán Gloviczki the social dimension of education has to be expanded, which is a lifelong learning process that has to start in the kindergarten. In the inclusive Europe, in order to create equal opportunities, the same conditions should be provided for all children already before the age of starting school. Ms. Mária Kőpataki Panel member, Plenary session 5 Mária Kőpataki is researcher of education development at the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development. She is involved in school-improvement, program-development and in the development of INSET courses for teachers. She believes that success of schools is based on personalised learning. In addition to her research and development work she facilitates cooperation between schools and different partners of educational institutions. Mária Kőpataki s special expertise is inclusive education of special needs children. She s been working as a national coordinator at the European Agency for Development in Special Need Education. 4
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Mr. Gergely Jónás Speaker, Workshop 2 Gergely Jónás is working as a civic rapporteur and an NGO expert at the Municipality of Pecs, Hungary. He graduated at the University of Pecs. Between 2008 and 2011 he worked for the Kerek Vilag Foundation as a sociologist. The foundation is a member organization of the Association for Lifelong Learning. During this period his main responsibilities were the development of social and work- abilities and the development of competences of adult persons with disabilities. Untill 2011 Gergely Jonas worked as a learning integrator at the Open Learning Center of Pecs where he participated in a NYITOK network building project for open learning centers. Ms. Annemie Jennes Chair, Workshop 3 Annemie Jennes has an academic master in psychology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1992). She is a pedagogical staff member from VVKBuO since September 1997 and responsible for the co-ordination of in service training for special needs education. She has experience with several European projects as a coordinator (INTERREAD, Comenius-project) and as a researcher (AVANTI, Leonardo project). Since 2011 she is involved in the P2i-project. She will take the lead for the Belgian partners in the next project, supervised by the Standing Committee on Education of EASPD, named INVESTT (Inclusive Vocational Education and Specialised Tailor-made Training). In her previous job she was a scientific researcher at HIVA, university of Louvain, where she was also involved in European projects (e.g. network on VET). Mr. Geert Van de Vijver Speaker, Workshop 3 Ms. Zsuzsa Lénárt Györgyné Speaker, Workshop 3 Lénárt Györgyné is the director of the Public Education Quality Award winner Martin János Vocational School in Miskolc, North Hungary. Her qualifications are: teacher, public education leader, social manager, also studies inclusive education and is an education management expert. The integrated, inclusive, action driven, make-it-happen attitude and experience orientated education, the individual pathways to learning, building personal strategies and the support of employment on the labour market is a grand challenge for me, at the same time I find the idea and the significance of inclusion elevating. The experience I gained verified my commitment in the realization both on institutional (organisational), classroom, lesson and on individual level. 6
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