Erida Curraj

Erida is a board member at SCiDEV and a consultant and knowledge broker, working with diverse actors from business representatives to higher education managers and academics. She is a good connoisseur of the business sector dynamics gained through more than 17 years of professional experience at national, regional, and international levels, mainly in Europe and China working with diverse actors from business representatives to higher education managers and academics. Eventually, she joined the University of Arizona Centre for Innovation as an Innovation Developer to expand her knowledge and enrich her expertise in the US market. She has a deep outstanding of working with the European Commission and Western Balkan’s projects mainly focused on education and youth. She holds a Doctorate Degree in Industrial Design, a Joint PhD Programme between Ferrara and Polis University and an Executive Education Certificate in the “Systemic innovation product and systems” at MIT Sloan Management School. Since 2016, Erida has been teaching a master course in Product Development and Brand Strategy at the Department of Art Design at Polis University, as well as a Design, Studio 5 and Research Methodology and Professional Ethics at Polytechnic University of Tirana.