Is a German non-profit organisation, founded in 1991 by the State of Bremen, Bremen University and a group of industrial companies (DaimlerChrysler, DASA, STN ATLAS Elektronik, regional SMEs from Bremen). ATB’s research team has about 30 scientists and its main business areas are Systems Analysis & Design, Knowledge Management and Software Systems Technology. ATB had the leading role in the development of the knowledge-based web platform within EU Project Extreme Factories, which serves as a baseline project for SOCRATIC. In SOCRATIC, ATB leads the development of the SOCRATIC Platform in WP300, which is based on ontological foundations and contributes to the methodology (WP100 and WP200). ATB also supports the validation process (WP400) and participates in dissemination and exploitation activities (WP500). Moreover, ATB is responsible for tasks related to Knowledge Management, Semantics and Services.

Is an independent non-profit organization made up of social entrepreneurs whose vision is to use new technologies as a means for social innovation and citizen empowerment, i.e. we want to increase the rights, opportunities and capabilities of each person within their environment, through the use of technological tools and applications within their reach.

Cibervoluntarios Foundation is pioeneer in technological volunteering, an international benchmark. We are passionate about technology and the social good. Cibervoluntarios brings both qualities and is based on a proven methodology for over 14 years. Throughout our history we have managed to identify replicable processes, allowing, through the social use of technology, to manage intangibles and to build projects that achieve social impact of improving the quality of life in the environment. It is also a recognized and internationally valued brand: Cibervoluntarios™

A path that in 2011 received the economic and social recognition of Google.org Foundation, through its campaign Google Gives Back , as one of the 50 organizations that are changing the world, the first and currently the only recognized organization with such merit in Spain. The Foundation also obtained an award from the Prince of Asturias in recognition of “the creation of new forms of participation and social innovation in support groups at risk of exclusion”

Social entrepreneur. Founder and current President of the Cibervoluntarios  Foundation, organization chosen by Google.org as one of the 50 organizations that are changing the world. Yolanda previously co-founded the Campus Party and the ICT consultancy company Futura Networks. She has also worked for Red.es and the Youth Institute of Spain. In 2011 and 2012 Yolanda was named as one of the Top 100 women leaders in Spain. She also recieved in 2012 a prize in the “Real Women” Awards of the spanish magazine Mia. In 2013, the Procom Association recognized her as one of “The Influentials” for hes 2.0 advocay and leadership. Yolanda has a degree in Journalism, with masters in Management and Administration of Foundations and other non-profit entities and Marketing.

Social entrepreneurs, founder os Cibervoluntarios Foundation. Secretary General and Head of Foundation projects Cibervoluntarios (www.cibervoluntarios.org) coordinating programs and activities of different areas of the organization. Social Entrepreneurs, based on computer systems management and active participant Cibervoluntarios movement since 2003. Cofounder the program Empodera.org and Empoderalive.org General admin and secretarial services

He is a communicator convinced of the power of information technologies to change things. He is responsible for creative strategies and social media at Cibervoluntarios Foundation. Angel plays its role to develop the outlines of communication, developing different strategies in corporate communication and social networks of the Foundation. His background in creativity strategies
allows him to do the corporate image of the programs carried out in the Foundation. Angel Has a Degree in Advertising and Public relations and a Master in Corporative and Advertising Communication.

Degree in Education by the Faculty of Education at the University of Oviedo. Postgraduate in University Specialist in Social Pedagogy : educational intervention and social welfare from the University of Oviedo. First year PhD in Educational Theory and Social Pedagogy, UNED.

Since 2008 to the present, she is coordinator of Volunteers Cibervoluntarios Foundation , conducting and coordinate volunteers for training performance Cyber Volunteering activities, coordinating educational projects and designing tailored technological plans for training different social groups at risk of digital exclusion, and also managing activities of corporate volunteering with the staff of several organizations.

He is a Telecommunications Engineer, MBA and PhD from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He has been focused on Management of Technology and Innovation. With a working experience of more than fifteen years as an independent contractor, Antonio has been recognised as a proficient lecturer and trainer in the areas of Innovation, Social Computing, Web and Mobile Technologies.

Degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration and Degree in Law by the University of Granada. Political Research Master by the Pompeu Fabra University. First PhD year in Advanced Studies regarding Human Rights in the Carlos III University, in Madrid. She has worked in the Political Science Department in Political Sciences and Sociology Faculty at the University of Granada, and under a scholarship granted by that University an investigation called “The use of SocialMedia in Regional Elections in Andalusia” was developed in that department.

Farapi is a Social Design studio established in Donostia. We work in social innovation processes oriented to investigation and we are specialized in ethnographic and design methods. We are aware of the importance of involving users in our development activities in order to create solutions that fit their needs. This is the reason why we consider people as the most important element to be taken into account in all the processes we promote. It is in our DNA to create a constructive social view in our society

One of the founders of Farapi Kooperatiba Elkartea. Holds a Master in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology from the University of Basque Country (Donostia, Spain) and a Degree in Psychology from the University of Basque Country (Donostia, Spain).

Anthropologist in Farapi Kooperatiba Elkartea. Holds a Master degree in Contemporary Studies of Latin America from the Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and a Degree of Sociology and Anthropology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium).

Economist in Farapi Kooperatiba Elkartea. Holds a Master Degree in Master Degree in Finance from the University of Deusto-ESTE (Donostia, Spain) and Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Deusto-ESTE (Donostia, Spain)

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is a public research university with campuses in the cities of Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund in Norway. NTNU is the largest of the eight universities in Norway, and has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology. In addition to engineering and the natural and physical sciences, the university offers advanced degrees in other academic disciplines ranging from the social sciences, the arts, medicine and health sciences, teacher education, architecture and fine art. As of the 2016 merger, the university consists of 14 faculties and 70 departments, with approximately 39,000 students. In addition, NTNU has more than 300 cooperative or exchange agreements with 60 universities worldwide, and several international student exchange programmes. There are, at any given time, around 2,600 foreign students at the university.

She has worked in the Italian ICT industry for several years. She has been working in academic institutions (Politecnico di Torino, Simula Research Center, University of Oslo, NTNU) covering different positions as researcher, supervisor, research manager and university teacher for 25 years (1990-present), always in collaboration with industry and public sector. At NTNU, she has been leading Experts in Team interdisciplinary student groups for almost a decade, always in cooperation with project owners from Industry or Public Sectors. She has been one of the main initiators and organizers of ITovation, an innovation arena for PhD students at NTNU, and weLead a network for women leader in Computer Science. Her main research responsibility has been to lead the software engineering group at NTNU, with 6 professors and 20 PhD students. As department head she has overall responsibility of all research and innovation activities at the department with several NFR, EU and Industry funded projects. She is independent director of Reply S.p.A with more than 5000 employees worldwide.

Ilias O. Pappas holds a Ph.D. in business management and informatics and is currently a Postdoc fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU, Norway.

She is professor of cooperation technologies at NTNU.  Prof. Dr. Divitini has more than 20 years active experience in research with focus on technology enhanced learning, cooperation technology, mobile and ubiquitous computing, user centred design approaches. She has extensive experience as participant and manager of EU and national projects in research areas relevant to this proposal. She was recently project leader for the national VERDIKT-FABULA project, on city-wide collaborative learning; unit responsible for EU IST FP7 IP MIRROR on reflective learning; and unit responsible for EU LLP2010 CoCreat, on development of Collaborative Spaces for Creativity in learning. She serves in the editorial board and program committee of various journals and conferences. She has co-organized various workshops in areas relevant to the proposal. She has participated to the design of ubiquitous collaborative technologies and serious games for learning.

He is a post-doctoral research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He holds a B.Sc. in Informatics, with a specialization on Information Systems from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, and a M.Sc. in Business Informatics from the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems Strategy from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University.

He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research interests focus on the design and study of emerging technologies and pedagogies in online and hybrid education settings, and their relationship to student and instructor experiences and practices.

SINTEF is Scandinavia’s largest independent research organisation, and is a non-profit research foundation. SINTEF is multidisciplinary, with international top-level expertise in a wide range of technological and scientific disciplines, medicine and the social sciences. SINTEF’s vision is “technology for a better society”. An important concern in our work is to conduct research with positive societal impact. SINTEF is represented in SOCRATIC by SINTEF ICT group for Social Inclusion Technologies, and SINTEF Technology and Society group for Industrial Management. Social inclusion and user empowerment are two core topics in the work of both groups.

SINTEF ICT group for Social Inclusion Technologies has more than ten years of experience with European and national R&D in the area of healthcare and social empowerment technologies. It cooperates with many social actors in Norway such as Trondheim Municipality, St. Olav’s hospital, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration and Red Cross. The group has expertise in software engineering, user-centred design, computer-supported collaborative work, social computing and technology evaluation.

SINTEF Technology and Society conducts research and development in an interdisciplinary working environment. The focus is interaction between technology, human, organization and society. We have previous experience in social innovation through the FP7 MyNeighbourhood project that aimed at changing the behaviour of stakeholders within urban contexts at the scale of the neighbourhood. In MyNeighbourhood, we developed novel co-design tools and processes grounded in gamification techniques. We also designed the process of lean evaluation of the citizen intervention actions, providing insights to the developers of the social innovation platform.

He is a research scientist at SINTEF working with social computing, computer-supported collaborative work and motivational systems. His research experience includes software development and evaluation (e.g., EU FP7 Societies project), requirements engineering and user-centred design (e.g., EU FP7 CoSSMic and H2020 MyCyFAPP projects). Thomas has also been highly active in diverse international volunteer organizations with similar profile as the ones targeted in SOCRATIC such as the International Student Union (Norway) and the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association, where he has been a Steering Committee member.

She is a senior scientist at SINTEF ICT. She received a PhD in Telematics from NTNU in 2003. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of software engineering as developer, architect, research scientist and technical manager. She has gained competence in the application of user centred design and technology evaluation through the leadership of trial activities in several EU projects. She is also familiar with social platform technologies and their applications through the EU FP7 Societies and TAG-CLOUD projects. User participation and user empowerment are key issues in her current activities (e.g., H2020 MyCyFAPP project).

He is senior scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University College London in 2008. His experience spans 25 years in applying ICT to solve problems and customer needs, covering diverse areas such as manufacturing, logistics, network communications, learning and training, and more recently social innovation within the context of Human Smart Cities. For the past 10 years, he has been strongly involved in projects dealing with user behaviour transformation, with particular interest in innovative learning technologies and gamification. He was involved in the FP7 MyNeighbourhood project that aimed at fostering social innovation within the neighbourhoods, empowering the citizens to find solutions to community needs through frugal innovation. He has published more than 100 articles and in 2012, he co-founded HighSkillz, a game-based learning company.