Panel POL50
Education Policy Initiatives in Focus
Date Thursday, Dec 6 Time – RoomQueen
National and international education policies affect digital learning and training matters for all: from children to employees to displaced persons to the elderly. How do our education policies help individuals reach their full potential and provide the skilled workforce society needs? How are they providing a level playing field and equal opportunities to all? This Panel will dissect specific education policy initiatives and share on strategy, feasibility, sustainability, quality and sensitivity to context.
Harald Melcher
Managing Partner, M2More, Germany
Harald Melcher is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of m2more GmbH, Berlin. Since 2012 m2more develops and implements strategies and concepts in the field of education and media – for companies and institutions and with a strong focus on digitization. Moreover Harald Melcher is Managing Director of m21 Bildungsmedien GmbH, a company offering innovative digital products for schools under the family brand Lerneo.
Harald is an experienced senior manager in the German education and media business. Before starting his own companies he took over responsibility as Managing Director of the privately run AKAD universities, the leading educational publisher Ernst Klett Verlag and, during the 90’s, in the founding and establishing of Cornelsen Software (subsidiary of Cornelsen publishers). He served as member of the board of Didacta Verband, the biggest German education industry association, and currently in two working committees of Bitkom, Germany’s IT industry association.
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Rafal Lew-Starowicz
Deputy Director, Ministry of National Education, Poland
Rafał Lew-Starowicz is a deputy director at the Ministry of National Education in Poland, coordinates the educational policy of innovation in Poland. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, the University of Warsaw and a PhD (ABD) at the Institute for Media Education, Faculty
of Educational Sciences, at the University of Special Education.
As an employee of the Educational Research Institute, he participated in the evaluation of the “Digital School” Government Programme. Previously, he worked at the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the MaterCare International in Kenya, and directed the work of organizations whose task was to increase the safety of children and youth in the electronic media.
He is a Polish delegate to the OECD Education Policy Committee, the European Commission Working Group on Digital Skills and Competences and the Consultative Committee of the “Safer Internet” in Poland, an expert at “Classroom 2.0” Project.
He has been a member of the the PIAAC and PISA Boards of Participating Countries, Pan European Game Information Council (PEGI). He is the author of several publications on the safety of children and youth on the Internet.