Maria João Horta is a science and ICT teacher and holds a PhD in ICT and Education from IE/UL – Institute of Education, University of Lisbon and a master's degree in science teaching from FC/UL, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She is currently Deputy Director-General of Education at Ministry of Education. Previously Maria João was Director of the EDUCOM teacher training center and Head of the INCoDe Team for Education, an integrated public policy initiative to enhance digital competences. Moreover, she has been developing several tasks as a Teacher Trainer and as a Researcher in the domain of Educational Technology, as well as a Consultant in the area of ICT for Teaching and Learning purposes. This includes the monitoring and the evaluation of ICT projects at elementary and secondary schools, as well as the supervision of the teachers' training in the field of the educational use of digital technologies. She is the Portuguese national representative on WG DELTA, Working Group on Digital Education: Learning, Teaching and Assessment at the European Commission.

Patricia Wastiau is an expert on public action analysis in (digital) education and innovation, comparative education, evidence informed policymaking, and policy experimentations. Patricia is currently working as Principal Adviser for Research and Studies at EUN. Since she has joined EUN in 2009, she has coordinated the Survey in schools: ICT and education (benchmark study), and several studies, investigations and projects about school (shared) leadership, schools as learning organisations, (digital) learning environment, digital formative assessment, and more recently on the use and governance of learning analytics. Previously she has been for more than 10 years the Director of Eurydice (the education network in Europe). Patricia has also extensive experience of leading and/or participating to European Union research projects and programmes (Socrates, LLP, FP6 and 7 programmes). She has also been part of several expert groups organised by OECD (evidence informed policy), UNESCO (citizenship education), etc.