Claire O'Leary

College of Medicine and Dentistry, United Kingdom

Claire is the Director of Recruitment, Admissions, Marketing and Partnerships at the College of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK, which is validated by Ulster University, UK. She is also a Non-Executive Director for Independent Higher Education, a body representing 100 small and specialist private HE providers in the UK. Claire was recently elected to join the General Council of EAIE. Claire has a wealth of experience in international HE, specialising in internationalisation of the student lifecycle,  embedding intercultural learning, visa and immigration management, and academic and commercial partnership development. 

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Adriana Perez Encinas

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Adriana Perez-Encinas is associate professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She has been involved in the EAIE in different capacities, as current member of the General Council and in the past as part of the Expert Community Mobility Advising. Her international education journey started more than 20 years ago, first as exchange student, second as ESN volunteer and later, as head of the International Relation´s Office at the faculty of Business and Economics at UAM where she was constantly in contact with local and international students, university partners and colleagues from all over the world. In 2017 she defended my PHD on strategies for welcoming international students, formal and informal support services in higher education. Today she continues to be highly interested in and passionationate about internationalization of higher education institutions and conducting research on the topic and giving trainings internationally. 
 

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Virginia Van Der Ster

Nuffic / National Agency Erasmus+, Netherlands

Virginia van der Ster is a policy advisor digitalization at the (NL) National Agency Erasmus+. Within this role she is responsible for developing and implementing a cross-sector digitalisation policy and supporting practices within the framework of the E+ programme. Before starting at the National Agency, Virginia worked in Higher Education for 16 years as a policy officer Global Engagement and was steering group member of EAIE's Expert Community Mobility Advising for 6 years. 

In the past years Virginia extended her expertise in international education to the area of digital education for all educational fields. 

Virginia finds it interesting to also look at Digital Education in relation to the other priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme. In that context Virginia was also squad leader for the Diversity-Equity-Inclusion squad of the European Digital Education Hub, which brought forward amongst other outputs a workshop on "Technostress and digital wellbeing". 

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