Dr Nikitas Kastis has a First Honours Degree in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Financial Management and Project Evaluation. He has been Research Associate in the National Technical University of Athens and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Technical University of Crete.
He joined the Lambrakis (Research) Foundation (LRF) in early 1992, taking over the responsibility of its programmes and innovative actions, many of them dealing with and assessing the impact of the development and use of ICT-based pilot applications in Education & Culture as well as with the enhancement, validation and mainstreaming of innovations in education and training systems.
He has worked as Project Manager in a number of national and European research and development projects, aiming at innovations and the quality upgrade in the school and after school education. Since 1998, he has been appointed R&D Director of LRF, being responsible for all the development programmmes of the Foundation. From the year 2000 he has been appointed Deputy Director General, acting as chief operations officer of the organisation.
He is, currently, the Director of the Foundation, while serving as the President of the Board of Directors of the MENON Network (an EEIG founded by 5 organisations active in the field of Research and Innovation in Learning, in Europe and across the world). He is also currently chairing member of the “Open Classroom” Working Group of the “European Distance and Elearning Network” (EDEN) and participates in a number of study and policy support making projects in Europe, for the European Commission and other national and European stakeholders.