About the Generation 3.0 Program

Andrea Cocherová

Administrator of the Orange Foundation, Chair of the Association of Corporate Foundations and Corporate Endowment Funds.

Alena Kanabová

She works at Accenture as a Manager coordinating responsible entrepreneurship. Her expertise is in managing business projects.

Jana Kontúrová

Director of Primary School in Bošany. She assesses the details and feasibility of selected interventions.

Dušan Meško

A university professor at Jessenius Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University in Martin. He develops activities to support research and innovation.

Ivan Pavlov

A university lecturer at the Department of Andragogy, Faculty of Education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. He maps stakeholders in education, helps consult and scale projects.

Saskia Repčíková

 She brings innovations in education into the programme. She helps develop the communication strategy toward key stakeholders.

Lucia Šicková

A co-founder of Pixel Federation. In Generation 3.0 she provides support in strategy-making, builds leadership skills of people in supported projects. She is also in charge of checking efficiency and using gamification.

Matej Šiškovič

Senior consultant at MIM, ex director of the Educational Policy Institute, a state think-tank. He sets the methodology of the assessment of intervention impact and brings Generation 3.0’s activities in line with the Ministry’s activities.

Thomas Collins

Chairperson of the Governing Body of the Dublin Institute of Technology, interim President of Maynooth University, Government Advisor on the Green Paper (1998) and the White Paper (2000) on lifelong learning.

Greta Gornnert

Greta works as a consultant at Poetica Ltd. in California and has 20 years of experience in evaluating projects and organisations and measuring global impact. She also lived in Slovakia for a long time, thanks to which she knows the local context.

Michael Jacobsen

A successful entrepreneur, an investor, and the founder of The Global Entrepreneurs Agency.

Pasi Mattila

Director of Finpeda Ltd., responsible for several significant innovative educational projects, Academic Leader of the Immersive Learning Research Network.

Iveta Juricová

Iveta worked as a researcher at the Department of School Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Trnava. Currently, she works as a teacher at a bilingual primary school.

She provides consulting on setting up the impact measurement of the My Machine project.

Soňa Koreňová

Soňa studied Political Science at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. She graduated from the Teach for Slovakia and the Professional Fellows Programme. She leads her organisations Cesta mladých (tr. Young People’s Path) and Edubox. She also works as an analyst at the Office of the Plenipotentiary for the Roma Community

Martin Kuruc

Martin works as a teacher at the Department of Pedagogy and Social Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava. He focuses on the topics of self-regulation and motivation, education for responsibility and independence, and pedagogical diagnosis of behavioural disorders.

Radomír Masaryk

Radomír works at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences and as Vice-Chancellor for External Relations at the Comenius University. His main research interests include Social Psychology, Marketing Psychology and Health Psychology.

He provides consulting on setting up the impact measurement of the I AMbitious project.

Jana Fúsková

Jana works at the Institute for Research in Social Communication at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the University of Trnava in Trnava. Her main research interests include the identity of minorities and the construction of social and political barriers affecting sexual minorities.

Romana Kanovská

Romana graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University (UK) in Bratislava. She worked as a research and development employee at the National Institute for Education. Currently, she is a director of the National Institute for Certified Educational Measurements.

Lucia Kováčová

Lucia focuses mainly on educational policies, especially in the context of the inclusion of children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. She studied political science and public policy at Comenius University in Bratislava and currently works as a researcher at the Slovak Governance Institute.

Simona Oľhová

She graduated from the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University and the University of Trnava, with a training centre at the Institute for Research in Social Communication at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. She works as an assistant lecturer at the University of Ostrava. She is the founder of the Slovak version of Science Slam at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Martin Posch

Martin works as a researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He gained his PhD. from the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He focuses on airborne landings in Czechoslovakia in the Second World War and Western intelligence activities. He completed several foreign research study trips.

Andrej Salner

Andrej co-founded Basta digital and in the past, he worked as an executive director of the Slovak Governance Institute. He focused mainly on the knowledge economy, social inclusion and evaluation. He graduated from economy at the Brandeis University in the USA and the University of Edinburgh.