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Maria Kristiina Ranta
Maria Ranta, senior adviser for external funding for education (University of Agder, Norway)
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Maria’s work as an expert in external funding for education projects means she gets to explore and develop novel education initiatives and outside-of-the-box approaches on daily basis. She has recently been appointed as task manager for defining and advising on the development of microcredentials in FORTHEM European University alliance, with partners in nine European countries. Prior to her current position, she has worked with international education projects in several Finnish universities and at the Finnish National Agency for Education. Maria loves problem-solving in a transnational setting where she gets to navigate through different institutional and national frameworks, with the goal of finding common ground and building higher education future together.