Nikitas Kastis

Dr Nikitas Kastis Director, Lambrakis FoundationPresident, MENON NetworkDr N. 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 Assistant Professor in the Technical University of Crete. He joined the Lambrakis (Research) Foundation in early 1992, taking over the responsibility of its programmes and innovative actions, many of them dealing with and assessing the impact of the deployment of ICT-based applications in the Society, the Education and Culture, as well as with the enhancement, validation and mainstreaming of innovations in learning 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 foundation.He is, currently the Director of the Foundation, after its recent reorganization, responsible for all its activities, while serving as the President of the Board of Directors of the MENON Network (European Economic Interest Group active in the field of Research and Innovation in Learning, in Europe and across the world). He is also currently Member of the Advisory Board of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) and participates in a number of study and support to policy making projects and initiatives in Europe, for the European Commission and other national and European stakeholders.