Nikos Manouselis | E-mail: nikosm(at)ieee(dot)org

Nikos Manouselis has a diploma in Electronics & Computer Engineering, a M.Sc. in Operational Research, and a M.Sc. in Electronics & Computer Engineering, all from the Technical University of Crete (Greece). He also has a PhD on metadata & semantics for agricultural content/services from the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece. He is the R&D Director of AK, and an external consultant of the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET). Dr. Manouselis has coordinated the Organic.Edunet eContentplus project.

Giannis Stoitsis | E-mail: stoitsis(at)ieee(dot)org

Giannis Stoitsis received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2002, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Patras in 2004 and 2007, respectively. His research interests include bioinformatics, image processing, computer aided diagnosis and advanced Web technologies. He has participated (as a technical manager or research associate) in several EU-funded and National Research initiatives.

Laura Gavrilut | E-mail: lgavrilut(at)agroknow(dot)gr

Laura Maria Gavrilut received her Engineer Diploma from the University of Oradea, Romania, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in July 2007. In August 2007, she was accepted at the Carnegie Mellon University, US Athens campus, with full scholarship. She received her Master Diploma M.Sc. in Information Netwroking in May 2009. Currently, she is a Junior Project Manager at Agro-Know Technologies, Greece. Among her interests are Open Access, Social Media and Web Technologies. She speaks fluently Greek and English and she is native in Romanian.

Charalampos Thanopoulos | E-mail: cthanopoulos(at)agroknow(dot)gr

Charalampos Thanopoulos has a diploma in Crop Science, Specialization in Vegetable Crop Production and a M.Sc. in Modern Systems of Crop Science, Plant protection and Landscape architecture, all from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. He is involved as an associate researcher for Agro-Know Technologies in several EU projects. He has strong experience in the development of Learning Objects, implementation of metadata schemas for the description of learning Resources, exploitation of digital repositories, creation of educational scenarios, identification of competences for professional training, design and development of Application Profiles for the online representation of Job profiles and Training Opportunities.

Vassilis Protonotarios | E-mail: vprot(at)agroknow(dot)gr

Dr. Vassilis Protonotarios has a 5-year bachelor, a 2-year MSc and a 4-year PhD in Agricultural Biotechnology, all from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece). He has been working as an external scientific associate for Agricultural University of Athens, Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET) and Agro-Know Technologies for the last years. He is working on topics covering educational metadata, digital collections/repositories, integration of Web 2.0 tools in the agricultural training context, educational/training resources, blended learning etc.