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Paolo Budroni earned his Dr. phil. in 1986 at the University of Vienna, completing a semiotic examination of “Don Camillo and Peppone.” In 1988, he completed his education degree at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and in 1996, he received a postgraduate degree in European Integration for Public Administration at the Austrian Federal European Academy. In 1991, he headed the realization of the first Current Research Information System (CRIS/ DonKey) of the University of Vienna (1991-1998). While on sabbatical (2001-2005), Budroni worked as Strategic Alliances Manager at a German BI Company, further as a docent for marketing courses at the graduate level at the Università degli Studi di Perugia (Scienze della Comunicazione), and as Marketing Manager and, later, as Strategic Business Development Manager for a German telecommunications firm. Back in Vienna in 2005, he led as Managing Director the development of the digital archiving system for RDM of the University of Vienna, which also serves as Institutional Repository of the University (Phaidra, 2007-2016). Today Phaidra is used in 5 European countries and is running at 15 institutions (among them the Austrian National Funding Agency FWF). From 2014 to 2016, he has also been the Managing Director of the of the nation-wide project e-Infrastructures Austria (26 partners, all Austrian Universities), which aims to create an Austrian network of competencies in the field of university repositories and research data.

European or national projects (led or acquired): OpenAIRE, Europeana Libraries, TEMPUS in the Western Balkan Region, e-Infrastructures Austria, Open Education Austria, H2020-LEARN (WP3, Policy Development and Alignment).

Paolo Budroni is the Austrian National Delegate to the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) and represents the University of Vienna at COAR.

His long-term involvement in digital asset management and the provision of aligned services in the scientific community have provided him with a thorough knowledge of technical systems and the requirements of the academic world. Thanks to his engagement, the University of Vienna has participated in the projects like Europeana and OpenAIRE/OpenAIREplus. Currently, he has been appointed as the representative of the Unversity of Vienna at COAR. In the LEARN project, he focuses on stakeholder engagement, policy development and alignment, impact and advocacy. He also offers his experience in the use of foreign languages in multi-national settings, his ability to plan and organise work programs and his good understanding of linkages between policies and cooperative practices.

Maria Seissl is the Head of the Library. Due to her thorough experience in re-engineering and strategic development, mobilisation of resources and localisation and analysis of potentials, which led to a repositioning of Vienna University Library as a modern and innovative institution, Ms. Seissl will bring her experience in the fields of policy development and alignment to the LEARN project.

Juan Gorraiz, heads the University’s bibliometrics department and collaborates with national and international (corporate and public) partners (e.g. the University of Graz, the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Technopolis, Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, etc.). He is experienced in the organisation of large conferences and in lectures on informetrics, scientometrics and bibliometrics at international conferences. He has published various articles on negative research results. His project involvement will focus on dissemination and stakeholder engagement.