Ana Tecilazić

Ana Tecilazić is the Vice Rector for Quality at Algebra University where she is responsible for institutional strategic developments in line with the European and national policy frameworks. Ana’s professional experience has been shaped mainly by working for twenty years in higher education at the national level as well as at the European level by representing Croatia in numerous bodies, groups and networks, such as the EQF Advisory Group, ET Working Group on Higher Education, the Bologna Follow-up Group and the Bologna Implementation and Coordination Group. She has been mandated as an observer in the work of the EQAR Register Committee, on behalf of the BFUG, and is working as an independent expert in external quality assurance activities and capacity building projects in different fields of higher education. Ana represented EURASHE as a co-chair of the EHEA Working Group on Learning and Teaching and has been a co-leader of the EURASHE Community of Practice for Quality Assurance.

Eltjo Bazen

Eltjo Bazen is a Senior Quality Advisor and Chief Product Owner QA at HU UAS Utrecht, the Netherlands. As such he advises programmes in their internal quality enhancement as well as external accreditation processes and leads an institutional change programme to integralise quality assurance. At the national level Eltjo is part of several networks and working groups around the quality assurance of higher education. He is also part of EURASHE’s Community of Practice on quality assurance and a member of the EQAR Register Committee.

Jakub Grodecki

Jakub Grodecki is a Policy and Project Manager at the European Association for Higher Education Institutions (EURASHE). His primary foci within the organisation are the quality of higher education, the Bologna Process and the European higher education policies. On behalf of EURASHE he is a member of the board of the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR). Before joining EURASHE, Jakub was involved in higher education policy work as a Vice-President of the European Students’ Union. In 2022-2024 he was serving as a member of the Advisory Council on Youth in the Council of Europe. Previously, he was a Quality Assurance Expert for the Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA) and ESU QA Pool of Experts.

Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson works within the European Commission’s higher education policy team in DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (EAC). In this role, she contributes to the higher education elements of the European Education Area, with specific responsibility for the development of policies on automatic recognition, quality assurance and learning for the green transition. Prior to this role, Julie worked for the Irish Department of Education and Skills, most recently as the Education and Skills Attaché in the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU. In this role, she was Chair of the EU’s Education Committee during the Irish EU Presidency and led the negotiations with the European Parliament and the Commission on the previous Erasmus+ programme.

Colin Tück

Colin Tück is a Higher Education Policy Consultant and currently contributes to projects in the field of quality assurance, recognition and technical interoperability in higher education. He is a former Director of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), where he initially worked as a Project Manager on behalf of its founding members (ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE). Colin was a member of the Steering Group for the revision of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and is a co-author of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes. Prior to joining EQAR, he was involved in quality assurance-related topics as a member of the European Students’ Union’s (ESU, formerly ESIB) Bologna Process Committee and of the Executive Board of the National Union of Students in Germany.

Aleksandar Šušnjar

Colin Tück is a Higher Education Policy Consultant and currently contributes to projects in the field of quality assurance, recognition and technical interoperability in higher education. He is a former Director of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), where he initially worked as a Project Manager on behalf of its founding members (ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE). Colin was a member of the Steering Group for the revision of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and is a co-author of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes. Prior to joining EQAR, he was involved in quality assurance-related topics as a member of the European Students’ Union’s (ESU, formerly ESIB) Bologna Process Committee and of the Executive Board of the National Union of Students in Germany.

Leopold Kögler-Vencour

Leopold Kögler-Vencour has been an Expert for Higher Education Development and Curriculum Design at St. Pölten UAS and a member of the E³UDRES² Team as a Work Package Bridger since 2023. From 2005 to 2018 he was an Administrative Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Programme at the University of Vienna, and from 2008 to 2019 he worked as an Administrative Director of two Study Programmes Abroad of the University of Chicago in Vienna. Besides administrational tasks, Leopold was responsible for fostering international collaborations and joint programmes.

Lars Hintenberger

Lars Hintenberger is an Expert for Programme Development at St. Pölten UAS, and a former Associate for Development at the aforementioned university of applied sciences, supporting development teams in their curriculum development process. Lars is also a Core Group Member of EURASHE´s Quality Assurance Community of Practice.

Saar Wismans

Saar Wismans has over 25 years of experience as a Quality Advisor, with 10 years of experience at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. She is responsible for quality policy and advising on quality assurance, culture and accreditations. Additionally, Saar teaches Accountability and Project Management in the Master Educational Needs and Master Leadership in Education programmes.

Anne de Jong

Anne de Jong has over 15 years of work experience at various small and large universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands in the positions of a lecturer, team leader and programme manager. For the past three years, she has been working at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences as a Strategic Policy Advisor. There, Anne focuses primarily on educational development, assessment, digitalisation and flexibilisation.

Ljubica Petrović Baronica

Ljubica Petrović Baronica has been working at the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (AMPEU), the Croatian National Agency for Erasmus+, for 15 years. As an Assistant Director, her goals include the implementation of the Erasmus+ programme in the area of education and training and cooperation on policies to enable internationalisation and modernisation of education and training in Croatia. Ljubica also coordinates the development of the SALTO centre for Inclusion and Diversity, a resource centre whose mission is to make the Erasmus+ programme more inclusive and diverse. In addition to this, she works closely with national and international partners and is a member of several working groups.

Ivana Verveger

Ivana Verveger is a Quality Assurance Advisor at Algebra University. Prior to this role, she was a Blue Book trainee at the European Commission, in its European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), where she was involved in the management of innovative projects in the field of higher education. Ivana has been an active member of Erasmus Student Network (ESN) for over six years, where she has held positions at the local, national and international level related to mobility, education and culture and where she got acquainted with education policies and programmes of the European Union. She has also been a member of ESN´s International Committee for Education which educates the Network on different education-related EU policies, programmes and initiatives.

Pegi Pavletić

Pegi Pavletić is a Senior Assistant in the field of medicinal chemistry, from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development at the University of Rijeka. She is also a member of the European Network for Academic Integrity. Pegi is a former member of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ Union (ESU), with experience in the field of quality of higher education, recognition of competencies, European qualifications framework and academic integrity. She recently completed her second mandate as a member of the Steering Committee of ESU’s Quality Assurance Pool of Students’ Experts, marking a total of nine years of engagement in quality assurance, at the local, national and international levels in Croatia and Italy.

Sara Brkanić

Sara Brkanić is a graduate student of Digital Marketing at Algebra University. She is currently employed as a Marketing Manager at the Dradar company and also works at the Digital Talents marketing agency, which connects small businesses with the best students of Algebra University. Sara is also a student representative in the University’s Quality Committee.

Jacob Jesse Kolfschoten

Jacob Jesse Kolfschoten comes from the Netherlands and studies Commercial Economics – a combination of sales and marketing. He is currently an intern at the International Office of Algebra University. Last year Jacob Jesse also did a semester abroad in Cartagena, Spain. As he loves exploring new cultures and surroundings, he took this opportunity to get to know the Spanish and the Croatian cultures more and to experience studying abroad, which has also helped him broaden his international experiences.

Pierre-Antoine Rollet

Pierre-Antoine Rollet is a French student from the city of Lyon. He is in his second year of studies in EPITA, a French computer science engineering school. Pierre-Antoine is currently on an Erasmus+ exchange at Algebra University.