Anja Polajnar
Anja Polajnar is a project manager at the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO, hosted by the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) in Slovenia. She coordinates the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) programme within the framework of the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at JSI.
Her work focuses on dissemination, community building, and management of Horizon Europe projects, as well as the preparation of project proposals for Horizon Europe, Interreg, Erasmus+, and national funding schemes.
Previously, she worked as a project manager at the Government Communication Office of Slovenia and the Centre for eGovernance Development.
Anja holds an MSc in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Ljubljana and earned her PhD in Humanities from the University of Nova Gorica.