Alekos (Alexandros) Pantazis

Biography

Alekos (Alexandros) Pantazis (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of Peer Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education of University of Thessaly (Greece), a Core Member of the P2P Lab research collective, and a visiting lecturer at the Master's Degree "Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice" at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Technology Governance from Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance of Tallinn University of Technology (2021), a B.Sc. (5-year-long) in Environmental Engineering, an M.Sc. in Nautical and Marine Science, and a Certificate of Pedagogy and Educational Proficiency. Alekos has 20 years of involvement in international social movements, focusing on commons and degrowth. Moreover, Alekos has worked as a scientific assistant in European projects in the areas of commons, education and marine conservation. Currently, his work focuses on the convergence of commons, peer to peer education and convivial technologies. He is participating as external expert in Smooth (H2020) and ComPra (Erasmus+) projects which are focused on educational commons and in COSMOLOCALISM (ERC) project which concerns the political economy of the commons. Alekos speaks English, Spanish, French, and Greek.