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Be Internet Awesome program in Central Eastern Europe was made possible thanks to contributions of numerous experts in the field. Scroll down to find out more about leading scholars who authored the research chapters, practitioners who shared inspiring insights from their daily work, and reviewers who made their valuable comments and suggestions.

Authors of the chapters

Phil Brunet
The head of technology in the child neuropsychology lab and a master’s student in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Victoria in Canada. Phil has a prior background in technology startups and software project management. His current research centres on a tablet-based cognitive rehabilitation intervention for children. This chapter has been co-authored by Kevin Runions, Jacinta Francis, Hayley Passmore and Sarah J. Macoun.
Marianthi Papadimitrou
A Child Psychologist and a Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teacher with a specialization in supporting children and young people with medical and mental health needs. She has a varied and extensive working experience of over 25 years in the educational sector including mainstream, SEN and hospital schools and children services both in Greece and in the UK. Marianthi is a committee member of H.O.P.E. and an invited speaker in several national and international conferences.
Piotr Plichta
Professor at the University of Wroclaw. Special educator, certified teacher. Author and co-author of about 100 scientific publications, including the monograph: "Socialization and upbringing of children and youth with intellectual disabilities in the digital age". Representative of Poland in COST international scientific networks. Participant of national and international teams, research and educational projects and scientific societies. Author and co-author of educational materials, e.g. prevention program IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Model for Counteracting Technological Aggression and Cyberbullying).
Jacek Pyżalski
Special educator, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Department of Educational Studies). Participant and coordinator of about 60 national and international research projects, including many on the role of information and communication technologies in the lives of young people. Author of numerous publications, and coordinator of the Polish part of the EU Kids Online and ySkills surveys.
Anna Stokowska​
Team leader and manager with many years of experience working in educational NGOs. Graduate of the MISH UW, as well as the Center for Social Studies and the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Scholarship holder at the Central European University in Budapest. She coordinated educational projects at the Center for Citizenship Education and the “Digital Center” Foundation, and was an expert in social research conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs.
Natalia Walter​
Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, graduate of media pedagogy, therapeutic pedagogy and integrated preschool and early childhood education. Head of the Department of Media Education at the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, she is a specialist in computer and media education, social support, assistive technologies and e-learning. For more than a dozen years she worked with children and young people as an IT teacher, and currently conducts workshops for students, teachers and parents on media education. Co-organizer of national conferences on media education.
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Reviewers

Dr. Darren D. Chadwick​
Associate Fellow of the BPS. He currently works at Liverpool John Moores University in the School of Psychology. He specialises in the experiences of using of information and communication technologies by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their carers. His cyberpsychology research considers digital inclusion, communication, identity, health and online risks for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Cristina Ponte​
Full Professor at NOVA FCSH and PI of NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA). Member of the board in the EU Kids Online network, in the H2020 project Youth Skills (2020-2023). Coordinated the first Portuguese representative study on screens in the life of young children, funded by the Portuguese Authority for Communication (ERC, 2017). Associate Editor of Communication, the European Journal of Communication Research and member of the Editorial Board of several journals, among them the Journal of Children and Media (JOCAM), she has supervised more than 20 PhD theses.
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Authors of 'insights from practice'​

Vilnius “Atgajos” Special School

Theodora Armenkova has been working in hospital education in Bulgaria since 2016. She is currently working as a hospital teacher in the paediatric oncology department at the University Hospital “Queen Joanna – ISUL” in Sofia

Teacher at 17. listopadu Elementary School and Kindergarten, in Chomutov

Therapist and special education teacher, Be Internet Awesome trainer

FORTH, the Greek Be Internet Awesome team

FORTH, the Greek Be Internet Awesome team

Teacher at 17. listopadu Elementary School and Kindergarten, in Chomutov

Vilnius “Gerosios Vilties” Pre-gymnasium

One of the first hospital teachers in Greece. He has been working in the field of Hospital Education since 1988 at St Sophia Hospital School in Athens where he has also served as a head-teacher

Justyna Stańczak-Szenajch has been working in hospital schools in Poland since 2013, currently at the Special Primary School No. 287 at the Children’s Clinical Hospital

Teacher at the School for physicaly disabled in Opava (works with students with ID too)

FORTH, the Greek Be Internet Awesome team