Michelle Bergadaa

is professor of communication and management at the University of Geneva since 1997. She obtained her Ph.D. from the universities of Montreal (Canada). She published more than 150 articles in this field. She was a director of a postgraduate program in e-communication when she observed the exponential growth of frauds and plagiarism. At the same time the internet revolutionized our production modes of knowledge. She created a collaborative website « responsable.unige.ch » that counts more than 25'000 followers from 117 academic instances in 17 countries. Her last book « Le plagiat académique. Comprendre pour agir » (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015) suscitates the adhesion of an academic community in search of methods and process fitting this beginning of the 21st century. She gives conferences at international level and she is strongly involved in the creation of an international and multidisciplinary institute addressing the topics of scientific fraud and plagiarism.

Tricia Bertram Gallant,

Ph.D., is an internationally known expert on academic integrity. She served for 17 years in various leadership positions for the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), and has managed the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California, San Diego since 2006. Tricia is an active writer on the topic as well, perhaps best known for Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative (Wiley's Jossey-Bass, 2008), Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct & Empowering Change in Higher Education (Routledge, 2011), and her contributions to the Handbook of Academic Integrity (Springer, 2015). Tricia has spoken or consulted with institutions in the United States and around the world in Australia, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Jamaica, Mexico, Montenegro, Singapore, the UK, and Ukraine. She is available for speaking, consulting or training engagements, for students, faculty and/or administrators, on a number of topics including: developing academic integrity systems, policies and procedures; building cultures of integrity; creating classrooms of integrity; teaching and learning strategies for enhancing learning and integrity; ethical decision-making and acting; and, integrity bystander intervention.

Tomáš Foltýnek,

Is an assistant professor at the Department of Informatics and Academic integrity coordinator of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia. He is representing Czechia in Council of Europe's Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency, and Integrity in Education (ETINED). He has been dealing with plagiarism since 2008. He was involved in the design of an internal system for plagiarism detection for Mendel University in Brno and in several projects on plagiarism and academic integrity. Since 2013 he has been organizing conferences on this topic. He is President of the Board of the European Network for Academic Integrity.

Sonja Bjelobaba,

PhD is an associated professor in Slavonic languages at the Department of Modern Languages and an associated researcher and project manager at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at the Uppsala University, Sweden. She teaches research integrity, postgraduate supervision, and courses in teaching and learning in higher education designed for the faculty, as well as Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. Her research is concentrated primarily on faculty's and students' views on academic integrity in Sweden and in the Balkans and she has been involved in several projects on academic integrity.