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Erik Wallin
CEO
CITY Conversity AB
Sweden
Name:
  • Erik Wallin

 

Nationality:
  • Swedish

 

Recent Positions:
  • Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management,  Lund University, Sweden:
  • Project Manager, Office for Continuing and Distance Education, Lund University,
  • CEO, City Conversity AB, Lund Sweden
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Technology enhanced collaborative learning and working (eLearning, eBusiness) 
  • Learning regions, local foresight and future readiness based on a unique methodology that creates synergy between academic, business and civic stakeholders in the regional context 
 
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:
  • EC Project: Masters Program in eBusiness Management for the Baltic Sea Virtual Campus,
  • EC Project: CoLabs.eu - European Network of eLearning CoLabs.
  • EC Project: eCompete - Developing e-Competencies in European SMEs.
  • Author of a course module on Learning Regions in a European Masters programme for Lifelong Learning and Regional Development within the EULLearN-network
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:
  • Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Lund Institute of Technology,1970
  • Bachelor of Art in Social Science, Lund University, 1974
  • Ph.D., Human Geography, Lund University, 1980
  • Professional associations, executive positions
  • Managing Director, Hypertec AB, Ideon Research Park, Lund, 1988-95
  • Censor, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996-2001
  • Secretary, Advisory Group on ICT Services for Regional Development, County of Scania, 2000-2002 

 

Selected Publications:
  • Erik Wallin (2005): “Place centric and future oriented collaborative and experimental learning in the local village context”, in Proceeedings from the international conference om “Making Knowledge Work”, Stirling, Oct 2005 (forthcoming).  
  • Erik Wallin, Jolande Leinenbach, Joe Eagan (2004): Making the village a virtual campus - Best practice examples of learning regions in the CoLabs.eu project, FoV rapport Nr 6, Lund, 2004 
  • Erik Wallin, Beate Hausman, Martin Möller  (2004): Business models to support learning regions – Commercialization strategies evolved from the CoLabs.eu project, FoV rapport Nr 7, Lund, 2004. 
  • Erik Wallin,  Erica Lavagno, Pär-Ola Zander (2004): Lessons for learning regions - Internal evaluation of the CoLabs.eu project, FoV rapport Nr 8, Lund, 2004. 
  • Erik Wallin (2004): eBusiness Management – An Introduction and Overview, Pearson Custom Publishing, ISBN 1-84479-109-2 
  • Erik Wallin, Stefan Henningsson, Martin  Möller (2005): “The higher value chain of eLearning”, 
    in Breitner & Hoppe (Eds): E-Learning – Einsatzkonzepte und Geschäftsmodelle, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg (Proceedings from the eLearning
  • Wallin, Erik (1999a): "A business model for an online learning community – the case of Busy City", Proceedings  from 4th Online Learning Conference Euro´99, Cloucestershire Business School, Cheltenham, UK. 
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John Tibbitt
CEO Pascal International Observatory
University of Glasgow
Europe
An experienced social researcher who has undertaken and managed
programmes of research for policy in University, local government and
central government settings.
 
Areas of Expertise
 
*           Social welfare
*           Lifelong Learning
*           Social Inclusion
*           Communities and neighbourhood change
*           Social Mobility
*           Research in the policy-making process
*           Policy evaluation
*           Strategic policy development
*           Research programme management
 
Experience
 
Responsible for the establishment of the research function within a
local government social services department, and in Lifelong Learning
in the Scottish Executive.
 
Development and management of research programmes and the provision of
research-based advice at all stages of the policy process in central
government departments.
 
Membership of programme committees for ESRC Teaching and Learning
programme and for Joseph Rowntree Foundation Immigration and Inclusion
committee.
 
Membership of Advisory Committee for several University Research Centres
including the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning at Glasgow
Caledonian / Stirling Universities.
 
Negotiation of several initiatives for the development of knowledge
transfer between the research and policy communities including research
networks, publishing and of course, Observatory PASCAL.
 
Formal qualifications and publications
 
BA(hons)   in Sociology and Politics  
 
Published research reports, book chapters, articles in professional
journals, and reviews in academic journals.
 
 

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