Invited Symposia
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1: “Performing Arts Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Talent Development (prevent, evaluation, support, diagnosis, therapy etc)”
Coordinators: George Sapkas, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vice-President: Research Department, Hellenic Association of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatiology.
Stavros Kourkoulis, Associate Professor of Experimental Mechanics National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Participants:
Evangelos Koudigellis, Medical Doctor, Performing Arts (for Dancers) Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Evangelos T. Meleteas, Medical Doctor, Performing Arts (Music) Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Mariza Koch, Musician, Composer, Athens, Greece.
Themistocles Makandasis, Secondary School Adviser in Music, The Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affaires, Greece.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2: “Talented Students with Social-Communication Deficits: Emerging Problems, Identification and Intervention Strategies”
Coordinator: Kafantaris Ignatios, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Athens, Greece.
Participants:
Kalliopi Emmanouillidou, Educational-Counselling Psychologist, Teaching Associate (P.D 407/80), University of Ioannina, School of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki and Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Maria Dolores Prieto Sanchez, Professor, Faculty of Education, Director of the High Abilities Research Group, University of Murcia, Spain.
Mercedes Ferrando, Murcia University, Spain, Post Doctoral Fellow Research, Yale University, USA.
Rosario Bermejo, Alicante University, Spain.
Daniel Hernandez, Murcia University, Spain.
Marta Sainz, Murcia University, Spain.
Carmen Ferrandiz, Murcia University, Spain.
Stavroula Polychronopoulou, Director, Deparment of Special Education and Phychology, Faculty of Primary Education, National and Kapodistian Univestity of Athens, Director, Regional Center of Teachers Trainig, North Attika, Greece.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3: “Behave & Define Talents”
Coordinator: Eugenia T. Meletea, Mathematician & System Analyst, Researcher & Educator, Scientific Associate, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Director of the APOLLON – International Interactive Educational Network, Greece.
Participants:
Demetrios Lekkas, Mathematician, Composer, Music Theorist, Tutor: Greek Open University, Greece.
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK.
Peter Vuust, Professor, Royal Academy of Music, Lecturer, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4: “Applications and Utilities for Supporting Gifted Talented Students through Information and Communication Technology ”
Coordinator: Dimitris Koutsouris, Professor, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Participants:
Eugenia T. Meletea, Mathematician and System Analyst, Researcher & Educator, Scientific Associate, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Director of the APOLLON – International Interactive Educational Network, Athens, Greece.
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Linda E. Brody, Mathematician, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Director, Cogito, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Elżbieta Perzycka Professor, Instytut of Pedagogy, University of Szczecin, Poland.
Hala Makarem, ICT Program Coordinator, Sustainable Development Action Researcher, Founder of n - applied research Creativity Community, Beirut, Lebanon.
Symeon Retalis, Assistant Professor, Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece.