Dr. Edita Štuopytė is an associate professor at the Faculty of Social, Humanities, and Arts of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and has a PhD in Educational Sciences. Her scientific activities in the educational field are the educational empowerment of socially sensitive persons (migrants, older people, children, etc.), adult education, and teachers’ performance improvement. She is an active member of the Lithuanian Educational Research Association, which is also a member of the European Association for Educational Research. Edita Štuopytė has experience in implementing research and study projects: "Competence Development of Lithuanian and Ukrainian Public Sector Employees using Design-Thinking Methodology (PubCom-DT)" (period 2020-01-01 – 2022-12-31); EU Structural Funds - the pedagogical internship "Continue!" (the project is financed according to the measure 09.2.1-ESFA-V-727 "Improving the qualifications of teachers and other employees of the education system") period 2018-03-13 – 2022-12-31; Cost Action 18115 (TRIBES) "Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level" project (period 2019-04- 01 – 2023-10-30) and cooperates in the implementation Erasmus+ KA220-HED - Cooperation partnership in Higher Education (ID KA220-HED-8822615E) project "AGILE: Higher education resilience in refugee crises: Forging social inclusion through capacity building, civic engagement, and skills recognition "period 2022-2025).