Board
The EURASHE Board is formed by representatives of EURASHE member institutions. A plural and committed team that keeps track of the EURASHE Strategy and Secretariat.
The Board is formed by a President, two Vice-Presidents, and six Board members, elected by the General Assembly every two years.
Hannes Raffaseder
President
Hannes Raffaseder is CEO/President of St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and President of E³UDRES², the Engaged and Entrepreneurial European University as Driver for European Smart and Sustainable Regions.
Ulla Preeden
Vice-President
Ulla Preeden is the current Rector at Tartu Applied Health Sciences University. She also represents her institution within the Estonian Rectors’ Conference of Universities of Applied Sciences (RCUAS).
Jon Altuna
Vice-President
Academic Vice-Rector at Mondragon University since 2011. He worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of Mondragon University since 1997. He was appointed Academic Coordinator of the Faculty of Engineering in 2007, where he was involved in competence-based curriculum design and quality assurance.
Liam Brown
Board member
Liam is the Vice President of Research, Development and Innovation at the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. Since 2023, he represents the Technological Higher Education Association (THEA) at EURASHE.
Lina Girdauskienė
Board member
Lina Girdauskienė is associate professor at the School of Economics and Business and Professor at Lietuvos inžinerijos kolegija as well as senior associate at Commedia (integrated communication). She is also President of the Rectors’ conference of Lithuanian university colleges (LKDK).
Claudia Kreipl
Board member
Claudia Kreipl is Vice President for Research and Transfer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. As professor for economics, she teaches business management with a focus on corporate responsibility.
Luís Loures
Board member
Luís Loures is a full professor and the President of Portalegre Polytechnic University. During his academic career he taught in several courses in different universities, mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning, circular economy, climate change, bio-based solutions, and sustainability. Since 2023, he represents the Portuguese Polytechnics Coordinating Council (CCISP) at EURASHE.
Gordana Nikolić
Board member
Gordana Nikolić represents the Council of Croatian University of Applied Science in EURASHE. She is the Dean of PAR University of Applied Sciences and the only female owner and Dean of a higher education institution in Croatia. She also serves as the G100 Global Chair for Higher Education, a position through which she actively promotes inclusive leadership and gender equality in academia at the global level.
Ana Tecilazić
Board member
Ana Tecilazić is Vice Rector for Quality at Algebra Bernays University. She has more than twenty years of experience on policy developments in the areas of quality assurance, recognition, qualifications frameworks, employability, performance-based funding, social dimension, validation of prior learning, European affairs and internationalisation of higher education.