Panagiotis Kampylis, PhD

Panagiotis is a Project Adviser at the Platforms, Studies and Analysis Unit of European Education and Culture Executive Agency and Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. He graduated from Jyvaskyla University (Finland) with his PhD in creativity while he has a longstanding experience as primary school teacher, music teacher, school head, and teacher trainer. He worked from 2012 to 2020 as a project manager and team leader at the European Commission´s Joint Research Centre, where he led, among other projects, the development of the European Framework for Digitally-Competent Educational Organisations (DigCompOrg), the SELFIE tool for schools’ digital capacity and the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp). He also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Educational Technologies from 2021 to 2023, working on projects related to computational thinking and teachers’ digital competence. His research interests include digital and entrepreneurship competences, creativity, computational thinking, innovation and digital transformation of education, training and lifelong learning. He has published extensively in these fields (6850+ citations), and delivered keynotes at various events in Europe and beyond.