Thomas Jäger

Thomas Jäger, psychologist, born 1969, works as a researcher in the Centre for Educational Research (zepf) of the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has worked in the field of school bullying and violence prevention since 1997, co-ordinated the project LAPSuS - a whole-school-project on school bullying and violence – and several small community based projects. From 2000 to 2003 he coordinated the VISIONARY project in which partners from five European countries – the Germany, the UK, Portugal, Denmark and Finland - created a European Internet portal on school bullying and violence. Since 2004 he is coordinating the VISIONARIES-NET project in which an International team of partners from France, Germany, Spain and Romania will hold online conferences on school bullying and violence and extend the VISIONARY portal by three further languages.

E-mail: jaegerth@zepf.uni-landau.de

Urban Lissmann

PD Dr. Urban Lissmann, born 20.10.1948, is a scientific employee at the Centre for Educational Research (zepf) of the University of Koblenz-Landau. He is the head of section of the competence group «education» at zepf. Among others his research interests are diagnostics, bullying, violence, and prevention. He has published a book, and articles about violence in school (1995, 1996, 1997), and an expert system software (1997) to solve teacher-student-conflicts.

Email:lissmann@zepf.uni-landau.de

André Pilatus

André Pilatus, dipl., educationalist, born 21.11.1969, is a scientific employee at the Centre for Educational Research (ZEPF) at the University of Koblenz-Landau. His fields of interest are CBT and E-learning, and he is responsible for the IT system administration at ZEPF.

In the VISIONARY project he administered the German Lotus server on which we hosted our portal and helped with the design of the international and German website. For the VISIONARIES-NET he has created the conference site and currently works on a completely revised VISIONARY portal.

E-mail: pilatus@zepf.uni-landau.de

Reinhold S. Jäger

Prof. Reinhold S. Jäger, Dr., born 1946, has been the Head of Centre for Educational Research at the University of Koblenz-Landau since 1987, and Professor of Psychology and holder of chair. He studied Psychology and Education, in 1971-1978 was junior scientist at the Otto-Selz-Institut für Psychologie und Erziehungswissenschaft of University of Mannheim, completed his PhD in 1974, between 1978-1987 was head of the department of test research and development of the German International Institute for Educational Research, Frankfurt am Main, habilitation, . Main topics of research: Diagnostics in the field of psychology and education, health psychology, educational psychology and aggression in schools and bullying, learning with new media, knowledge management, learning.

Email: jaeger@zepf.uni-landau.de