Panourgias Papaioannou

Panourgias Papaioannou studied English language and American studies at the University of Athens and at Freie Universität Berlin. He worked for the European Parliament before completing his Erasmus Mundus in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) at the Danube University Krems and the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Before joining TU Dortmund he worked for the European Association of Institutional Research (EAIR), the WPZ Research and the Athens University of Economics and Business. His work focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship and digitalization of higher education institutions.

• Digitalization
• Governance reforms
• Entrepreneurship
• Third mission

STARK – Studierende als Akteur*innen des Wandels
Students as Actors of Change: The development of an innovative, research-based and student-centered flipped classroom module in the BA program in Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University

COST Action VOICES
Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality

2021–2022: BeyondScale
BeyondScale utilises the HEInnovate self-assessment-platform to drive entrepreneurial and innovative change across a range of education and engagement activities in higher education institutions (co-funded by the European Union).

Papaioannou, P. (2024). The participation of early career researchers in the decision-making bodies of a German university. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 13(1), 188–213. Online available

Papaioannou, P. (2024). The emergence of digital academic performance appraisal in higher education institutions: a literature review. Poster presentation at the 19^th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf), Hagen, Germany, September 24.

Papaioannou, P. (2024). The rise of academic performance appraisal in higher education institutions: a review of the literature. Paper presentation at the 46^th Annual EAIR Forum 2024 'Sustainability, Resilience and Wellbeing', Cork, Ireland, August 23.

Leišytė, L., Stolz, K., Papaioannou, P., Pekşen, S., & Rose, A.-L. (2023). STARK – Studierende als Akteur*innen des Wandels. Poster presentation at the Digital Teaching Day at TU Dortmund University (Tag der digitalen Lehre der TU Dortmund) 2023, Dortmund, Germany, November 14.

Papaioannou, P. (2023). The effects of digitalization on the performance management of universities. A systematic review of the literature. Poster presentation at the CHER 35^th Annual Conference (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers), Vienna, Austria, August 31.

Leišytė, L., Rose, A.-L., Pekşen, S., Stolz, K., & Papaioannou, P. (2023). Students as actors of change: Student perceptions and student agency in the post-COVID digital transformation of academic teaching. Paper presentation at the EURAM Conference 2023 'Transforming Business for Good', Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland, June 15.

Papaioannou, P. (2023). The participation of ECRs in the decision-making bodies of the German Universities: The case of the Technical University Dortmund. Presentation at the 1^st Annual Conference of the COST ACTION CA20137 (VOICES) 'Voicing young researchers for the future of Europe: Trends, challenges and policies', University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, February 14.

Papaioannou, P. (2022). Digitalization strategies in HEIs: A mean to respond to the needs of students, staff, and the society: The case of a German higher education institution. Presentation at the 17^th Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Higher Education (GfHf), Vienna, Austria, September 15.

Campbell, D., Fellner, M., Papaioannou, P., & Pausita, A. (2021). Innovation and distance learning: How COVID-19 has impacted organizational development of Austrian higher education institutions. Presentation at the 43^rd Annual EAIR Forum 2021 'Transformation Fast and Slow: Quality, Trust and Digitalisation in Higher Education', Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany,  September 10.