Education for Democracy in Schools: Applying the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture Online Conference of Senior Officials and Experts organised in the framework of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers 15-16 April 2021 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS NOMINATED SENIOR OFFICIALS ANDORRA Josep ARENY ACHÉ Directeur Département des Systèmes Educatifs, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et des Relations Internationales Ministère de l'Education et de l'Enseignement Supérieur d'Andorre Salvador SALA CARRASCO Chef de service des programmes scolaires Ministère de l'Education et de l'Enseignement Supérieur d'Andorre AUSTRIA Manfred WIRTITSCH Head of Unit Development and coordination of principal pedagogical reform processes Curricula development Citizenship education Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research BELARUS Iryna KARZHOVA Head of the General Secondary Education Department Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus BELGIUM Natalie VERSTRAETE Head of Division Division of Horizontal Policies Flemish Department of Education and Training CZECH REPUBLIC Jaroslav FALTÝN Director of the Department of Basic Education and Youth Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Kateřina KUBÁTOVÁ Department of International Relations Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports CYPRUS Andreas TSIAKKIROS Senior Education Planning Officer Primary Education Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth Chrystalla KOUKOUMA Secondary Education School Inspector Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth DENMARK Elsebeth ALLER Head of secretariat Ministry for Children and Education 2 Tobias Ameland MALTESEN Senior Official Ministry for Children and Education ESTONIA Viivian JÕEMETS Chief Expert Ministry of Education and Research Apologised for absence Britt JÄRVET Chief Expert in General Education Department Ministry of Education and Research FRANCE Edouard GEFFRAY Directeur général de l’enseignement scolaire Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports Apologised for absence Judith KLEIN Cheffe du bureau de l’égalité et de la lutte contre les discriminations Direction générale de l’enseignement scolaire Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports GEORGIA Natia NATSVLISHVILI Head of International Relations and Strategic Communications Department National Centre for Teacher Professional Development Ministry of Education and Science Nikoloz SILAGADZE Expert of Curriculum Development Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport GERMANY Christopher TEXTOR Deputy Director-General for Schools Hessian Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs Member of the School Committee of the Standing Conference (KMK) for Hessen GREECE Mr Panagiotis PASSAS Director General International and European Affairs, Education for Hellenic Diaspora and Intercultural Education Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs HUNGARY Tamás PEREGI Ministry of Human Capacities ICELAND Óskar ÞÓR ÁRMANNSSON 3 Director Department of schools, sport and youth Ministry of Education, Science and Culture IRELAND Leo KILROY Irish Education Attaché Department of Education LITHUANIA Jolanta NAVICKAITĖ Director of General Education Department Ministry of Education, Science and Sport MOLDOVA Natalia GRÎU Secretary of State Ministry of Education, Culture and Research Nadejda VELIȘCO Head of the Department of superior education politics Ministry of Education, Culture and Research NETHERLANDS Mr Rutger POL Head of unit, directorate of secondary education Ministry of Education, Culture and Science POLAND Tomasz KULASA Deputy Director Department of Curricula and Manuals Ministry of Education and Science ROMANIA Anca PETRACHE Director for Continuous Training of Teachers Directorate General for School Education Ministry of Education RUSSSIAN FEDERATION Olga PODBEREZKINA Deputy Director Department of international cooperation and public relations Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation SLOVAK REPUBLIC Katarína DEÁKOVÁ Division of Minority and Inclusive Education Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic Denisa ĎURANOVÁ National Institute for Education SPAIN Vicente LÓPEZ-BREA 4 Director for Territorial Cooperation and Innovation Ministry of Education and Vocational Training TURKEY Cem GENÇOĞLU General Director Directorate General for Basic Education Ministry of National Education Apologised for absence UKRAINE Oksana KOVALENKO Leading specialist Department of the pre-school, school and inclusive education Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Member of the Bureau of the CDPPE GERMAN DELEGATION Stefanie HUBIG Minister of Education of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Vice President of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany Christopher TEXTOR Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs Christiane BENESCH Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung (Saxony-Anhalt) Christoph BERENS Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung (Hamburg) Andre BIGALKE Ministry of Education - Education in Social Sciences (Hamburg) Martin BRENDEBACH Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family (Berlin) Elke BURESCH Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (Brandenburg) Doris CEEH Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus (Bavaria) Kristina FISCHER Pädagogisches Landesinstitut (Rhineland-Platinate) Hans-Werner FUCHS Ministry of Education - Education in Social Sciences (Hamburg) Christian HOFMANN Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie 5 Felix NIGGEMANN Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs Sascha PELZMANN Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sport (Baden-Wuerttemberg) Sabine PFEIFFER Pädagogisches Landesinstitut (Rhineland-Platinate) Birgit PIKOWSKY Director of Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz Renate RASCHEN The Senator for Children and Education (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen) Andrea SCHWERMER Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs Meike WITTE Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Schleswig-Holstein) Desiree WITTENBERG Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs EPAN MEMBERS ALBANIA Astrit DAUTAJ Head of Curriculum Development Sector Responsible for the Curricula of Citizenship education and social studies curricula for pre-university education and citizenship teacher’s training curricula Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-University Education AUSTRIA Sigrid STEININGER Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research Patricia HLADSCHIK Director POLIS – the Austrian Centre for Citizenship Education in Schools Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights AZERBAIJAN Vafa YAGUBLU Head of General and Preschool Education Department Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan BELARUS Larysa TRYHUBAVA Director of the Continuing Education and Retraining Institute Minsk State Linguistic University BELGIUM Federation Wallonia Brussels Geoffroy LIBERTIAUX 6 Attaché Ministère de la Communauté française Flemish Community Ann DEJAEGHERE Policy Advisor Flemish Department of Education and Training BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA Daria DUILOVIĆ MA Head of Department for Coordination of Education Policy Ministry of Civil Affairs BULGARIA Dimitar ASENOV Director National Centre for Teachers Training and Qualifications of the Pedagogical Staff Ministry of Education and Science CROATIA Jasminka LEDIĆ Professor University of Rijeka CYPRUS Pavlina HADJITHEODOULOU-LOIZIDOU Head of the In-Service Teacher Training Department Cyprus Pedagogical Institute Ministry of Education and Culture CZECH REPUBLIC Alena HESOVA Senior Expert in EDC and Civic Education National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic ESTONIA Viivian JÕEMETS Chief Expert in Education Management Department Ministry of Education and Research Britt JÄRVET Chief Expert in General Education Department Ministry of Education and Research FINLAND Kristina KAIHARI Counsellor of Education General upper secondary education Finnish National Agency for Education FRANCE Judith KLEIN Cheffe du bureau de l’égalité et de la lutte contre les discriminations Direction générale de l’enseignement scolaire Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports 7 GEORGIA Natia NATSVLISHVILI Head of International Relations and Strategic Communications Department National Centre for Teacher Professional Development Ministry of Education and Science GERMANY Bernt GEBAUER Project Leader “How to prevent violence and learn democracy in schools” Violence Prevention and Democracy Education Hessian Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs Sabine ROHMANN Head of Division ‘European and International Co-operation’ Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz Marcel LANGNER Thuringia Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and Media GREECE Lemonia ΜPOUTSKOU Head of the Independent Refugee Education Coordination and Monitoring Department Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs Christina STRATOU Advisor to the Deputy Minister Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs HOLY SEE Renata Maria VIGANÒ Professor of Experimental Didactics Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore HUNGARY Tamás PEREGI Curriculum Development Officer Ministry of Human Capacities Sára HATONY Officer Educational Authority ICELAND Ólafur PÁLL JÓNSON Head of Faculty of Education Studies School of Education University of Iceland IRELAND Aidan CLIFFORD Department of Education and Skills 8