Giorgos Giannikos is an elementary school teacher. He grew up in Keratsini and studied at the Faculty of Primary Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Educational Policy at the University of Peloponnese and holds two master’s degrees. He has studied in the master’s program “Historical Research, Didactics & New Technologies” at the Ionian University, as well as in the master’s program in Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Athens. His research interests focus on issues in the sociology of education and the teaching of history in elementary school. He has presented papers at relevant international and domestic academic conferences. His historical articles are published in the “Efimerida ton Syntakton” and the Kalamata-based newspaper “Eleftheria.” He has been working in the field of education since 2016, having taught at schools in Messinia, Attica, and the Cyclades. He is fluent in English and Italian and has a good knowledge of French.

Magda Balafouti is a primary school teacher. She was born in Kalamata and studied at the Faculty of Primary Education at the University of Patras. She holds an interdepartmental master’s degree in “Special Education: Education of Individuals with Speech and Writing Difficulties” from the Hellenic Open University and the University of Thessaly. She has also completed her studies in the master’s program “Historical Research, Pedagogy & New Technologies” at the Ionian University. She has attended numerous seminars and training courses on the use of New Technologies in Education and Intercultural Education. Her research interests focus on issues in Special Education and the teaching of history in elementary school. She is fluent in two foreign languages: English and French. She has been working in the field of education since 2015.

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Manos Lampidis holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Department of Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philology with a concentration in Linguistics and a master’s degree in “Theoretical and Applied Linguistics” from the University of Athens. His research interests focus on corpus linguistics, grammar, spoken language, critical discourse analysis, and critical literacy. He has participated in a research project under the CLARIN:EL program at the University of Athens and has attended summer schools at the University of Birmingham and Paris 8 on corpora and statistical analysis. In addition, she has attended numerous seminars on the pedagogy of literature courses and the teaching of Greek as a second/foreign language. She speaks two languages: English and Italian.