Book of speakers
The sixth Profformance+ Webinar focuses on internationalisation in higher education. The speakers represented those good practices which scored well at the PROFFORMANCE Higher Education Teacher Award. In the plenary session, they present 15-minute summaries of examples of their innovative teaching and learning practices. This includes:
- Brief info about the institution and the programme in which the method has been applied
- Main topics
- Challenge/problem – objective
- Methodology of implementation
- Technology, tools used
- Outputs/Outcomes/Impacts
- Lessons learnt (success factors/mistakes to avoid)
- Adaptability, transferability to other disciplines
Each presentation will include interactive parts to provide opportunities for collaboration, networking and resource sharing on innovative teaching and learning practices.
Presentation on the PROFFORMANCE+ Project and tools with a special focus on sustainability
Lali Giorgidze, Higher Education Expert & Doctoral Assistant, Institute of Management, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Georgia
Lali Giorgidze is a higher education expert nominated by the NCEQE for the PROFFORMANCE+ project. Currently she is also a Doctoral Assistant at the Institute of Management, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her PhD research explores the interactions between the adoption of sustainability-related quality assurance regulations and organisational cultures at universities. Lali has six years of experience in contributing to implementation of external QA reform for higher education in Georgia, in line with ESG-2015. She served on the BFUG Working Group on Learning & Teaching and contributed to international projects of the NCEQE supporting the implementation of the EHEA reforms. She holds an MSc in Educational Management and Leadership from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and an MA in Leadership and Organization from Malmö University, Sweden, where her studies supported by the Swedish Institute focused on organizational relationships between societal challenges and higher education leadership.
Sustainable tourism: On the journey to the future
Affiliation of Dr Ivana Damnjanović
- Head of Education & Research, Transformational Travel Council
- Associate professor, Faculty of Health and Business Studies, Singidunum University
Dr Ivana Damnjanović is an academic who seamlessly blends her roles as a lecturer, industry scientist, and published writer with her passion for the ongoing evolution of the tourism sector. With a focused PhD in tourism management specializing in the unique challenges and opportunities of sustainable tourism within protected environments. Her 18-year tenure at the Faculty of Health and Business Studies at Singidunum University in Serbia has been marked by growth and excellence. As an Associate professor and a past Vice-dean for International Cooperation, Ivana has channelled her vast expertise into crucial roles, notably as the Head of Education & Research with the Transformational Travel Council since 2023.
Professional interests: sustainable tourism; meaningful and transformational learning and travel experience design; the regenerative and transformational potential of tourist experience; destination stewardship based on community, nature, and traveller wellbeing; and passion for nature-based, adventure and recreation tourism and storytelling.
Her tenure in academia is underscored by a dynamic approach to education, promoting a deep understanding of tourism's transformational influence on both individuals and communities. Ivana drives each course with energy and commitment towards the transformative potential of travel, fostering in her students a mindset that values innovative, responsible, and empathic engagement with tourism's multifaceted stories. A zealous advocate for immersive and narrative-rich educational experiences, Ivana ensures that her teachings resonate with the themes of change-making, intentionality, and sustainability that lie at the heart of the transformation economy. Through her work, she shapes minds prepared to navigate and influence the tourism industry's evolving landscape with insight and compassion.
Ivana loves spending time in nature, hiking, mountaineering, free-climbing, and playing airsoft, to name a few. She adopts stray animals. She sees beauty in the blend of creativity, truth, passion, purpose, respect, love, sharing knowledge, and learning from others. She lives in her home town, Valjevo, Serbia.
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Ivana’s story
Nonbusiness marketing course with local stakeholders included
Anita is currently working at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Hungary. Her research areas include studies on higher education marketing, nternational student mobility, internationalization, higher education, satisfaction, loyalty and WOM. Her side-projects include co-creation in the classroom, gamification, international students' volunteering activities, measuring higher education service quality, students' satisfaction and loyalty towards a HEI. She serves as a Communication Officer for the EUGLOH University Alliance and a Podcast Officer for the ENIS Cost Action Network. She is a Fulbright Alumna of 2022, when she spent her Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship at San Jose State University.
Platform based entrepreneurship development through Hackathons
Vivien Csapi, PhD, University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics, associate professor, Head of Department
Vivien Csapi defended her doctoral dissertation in 2013. Her research interests encompass investment theory, with a particular emphasis on real options theory. Her dissertation relates to the real options analysis of investments in the electricity sector at the individual and portfolio levels. Currently, she is engaged in the following research areas: the allocation of financing sources, the sequencing of investments, the portfolio approach to real option valuation, and ESG. She has been an assistant lecturer at the Faculty since 2008, an assistant professor since 2013, an associate professor since 2022, the Head of the Finance and Accounting Department, the head of the ESG Finance Research team, the deputy director of the Centre for Applied Learning, and the leader of the Performance Management division of the Centre for Higher Education Data Analysis and Performance Management since 2023. She gives undergraduate and graduate Real Options Analysis, Investment, and Asset Pricing courses.
Csenge Tóth, Openup product manager, University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education
Dr. Aleksandra Milovanović is Research Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture. affiliated with the Laboratory for Urban Morphology and Typology (MorphoLab). Her primary research interests include architectural programming, urban housing, and heritage reprogramming with a strong emphasis within architectural higher education. She is experienced both in management and research in various research projects and networks including HERSUS (Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership in Higher Education), ECOBUILT (Erasmus+ EMDM), sUser and Cli-CC.HE (Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education), RE-MHN (DAAD East-West-Dialogue), SPATTERN (Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia), and SHiFT (COST Action). As a member of various author's teams, she won several awards at international and national architectural and urban design competitions. On several occasions, she has been awarded for competition practice and contribution to architectural education at international professional exhibitions (International Salon of Urban Planning, Salon of Architecture, International Exhibition ON Architecture, Days of Architecture Banja Luka, Balkan Architectural Biennale BAB).
