Iceland - Reykjavik Office address: Skeifan 19 (3rd floor), 108 Reykjavik, Iceland Website: www.northconsulting.is Tel: + 354 8204752 Email: info@northconsulting.is Email: maria@northconsulting.is Email: andrea@northconsulting.is

We are a small team of education and innovation enthusiasts who love contributing to making learning fun and accessible for all and ensuring that creativity and curiosity is fostered from an early age and nurtured throughout life. The DDestiny Team from NORTH consists of: Maria Kristin Gylfadottir Maria is the General Manager of NORTH. She has for the past 20 years worked within the research, innovation and educational sectors with positions at Reykjavik University (2000-2003), The Research Liaison Office of the University of Iceland (2003-2009), The European Commission in Brussels (2009-2013, The Icelandic Center for Research, where she managed the Erasmus+ National Agency (RANNIS) (2013-2018) and now NORTH Consulting ehf. Maria was a vice counsillor in the Municipality of Hafnarfjordur (2006-2010) and served on municipal committees on climate and environment, family affairs and education. She was also the President of the National Parent Association in Iceland (2004-2008). Maria is an expert in entrepreneurship education, qualifications systems and skills development, participatory learning and harvesting, curricula development strategy planning, project management, team building. Andrea Cheatham Kasper Andrea recently returned to Iceland with her family after spending the last eight years in the USA. Andrea has an EdD in Educational Leadership and her dissertation focused on the construct of entrepreneurial orientation as it applies to education. She has been teaching and working in education for over 25 years, most recently as Head of School & CEO of an independent school in Connecticut. She has lived in a total of five countries and has a breadth of experience as an immigrant, a language learner, dancer and teacher in different cultural contexts. Her passion for education stems from her desire to change common and traditional teaching practices and assure that new methods engage students, keep them active, help them take charge of their own learning and are supported by educational research. In addition, she is committed to developing educators and leaders as authentic, compassionate and thoughtful actors in their classrooms, schools and communities. Andrea is very excited to join North Consulting.

NORTH Consulting was founded in 2009 as an education and innovation consultancy and a training company for the cultural, innovation and educational sectors. NORTH supports organizations in realizing their potential, creating policies, developing training programmes, curricula and learning materials. We work with different entities involved in educational, cultural, entrepreneurial and research activities in different sectors. Our focus areas for the last few years have been on education for sustainable development (ESD), entrepreneurship, democratic citizenship and youth participation in decision-making. We also work with municipalities in creating and implementing education policies, planning and implementing training activities and support to teachers, particularly on ESD, global citizenship, inclusion and entrepreneurship. We have also worked on several skills formation and competence building activities and contribute regularly to international surveys on different educational topis. Our involvement in different projects and activities has allowed us to build up a strong network of people active in the education, culture and innovation sectors, both in Iceland and across Europe.

NORTH manages the Digital destiny project and co-wrote the concept behind the project and the Erasmus+ application in tight collaboration with other partners. Our desire to create this partnership stems from three reasons: 1. Our love for creating new learning approaches and tools for learning 2. Our love for and expertise in creative thinking methods and innovation learning 3. Our love for the environment and the future of our societies and the importance of integrating sustainability issues into the didactics of learning. The partnership behind Ddestiny is also composed of people who share the same love for education and innovation as we do at NORTH and who are experts in their respective fields.