Sustainable Futures for Higher Education: The Making of Knowledge Makers

JAAN VALSINER is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. He is currently Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark.  He has published and edited around 40 books, the most pertinent of which are The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),  Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Invitation to Cultural Psychology (London: Sage, 2014).  He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.  Since 2017 he is a Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.  E-mail: jvalsiner@gmail.com

ANASTASIIA LUTSENKO is an External Relations Director and a Professor of Management at Monarch Business School Switzerland researching the nexus of entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and human resource management. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Business Research and a Master of Science in Management. She has also been a visiting researcher at York University (Canada). and is presently working on the innovation research project sponsored by the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Prof. Lutsenko has published in the fields of marketing, HRM, project and innovations management. She is a member of the Academic Council of Monarch Business School and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Monarch Management Review. Academically, she has won a number of international scholarships and awards including The Marketing Trust Scholarship (UK), MSPME Consortium Scholarship (Erasmus Mundus, EU),the Outstanding Student Leadership Award at Monarch Business School Switzerland where she is presently completing a PhD in International Business and the ASBCP Outstanding Student Leadership Award (USA). Additional experience spans the 7th Framework Program and Horizon2020, UN project UNIDO as well as projects sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, DAAD, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and GIZ GmbH. She is a member of The Academy of Marketing (UK), The British Academy of Management (UK), and The Continuous Innovations Network (EU)

ALEXANDRA ANTONIOUK is a Deputy Director in Science and Technology Development of Kyiv Academic University, NAS of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and is a Deputy Director in Science, Institute of Mathematics of NASU. She holds a Doctor of Science from the Institute of Mathematics of NASU and her research areas include partial differential equations, stochastic analysis and stochastic differential equations on manifolds, asymptotic analysis, infinite dimensional analysis, Gibbs measures. Among her scientific collaborations, the cooperation with the following institutions can be highlighted: the University of Luebeck and University of Potsdam (Germany), University of Poitiers and Bordeaux University (France), University of Oslo (Norway) and University of Vaxio (Sweden). Presently, she is also a Member of Research Council of the Institute of Mathematics NASU, a Member of the Coordination Council of Ukrainian Mathematical Society, a Group Leader in the Horizon-2020 Project AMMODIT (Approximation Methods for Molecular Modelling and Diagnosis Tools) and the President of the Ukrainian Humboldt Club. Dr. Antoniuk was a Humboldt Research Fellow (Bochum, Germany) and received Humboldt Alumni Award.