Egle Butkeviciene, PhD, serves as full Professor of Sociology and head of Committee for Political Science, Sociology and Public Governance Study Programs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology. She holds a visiting professor appointment at University of Central Florida (UCF). Her research and teaching focuses on civil society issues, public governance, civic participation, social innovations, citizen science, social entrepreneurship, community development and social inclusion, environmental activism, social networks, and social impact of technologies.
Professor Butkeviciene has been leading and participating in a number of international projects: “Empowering Youth and Co-creating Social Innovations and Policy-Making Through Youth Citizen Social Science” (YOUCOUNT), “Supporting Sustainable Institutional Changes to Promote Citizen Science in Science and Technology” (TIME4CS), “The ECIU University Research Institute for Smart European Regions“ (SMART-ER), and other. Currently she is leading KTU team in two Horizon Europe projects: CATALISI – Horizon Europe project “Catalysation of institutional transformations of Higher Education Institutions through the adoption of acceleration services“ and ProBleu – Horizon Europe project “Promoting ocean and water literacy in school communities”.
She is a founding member of the Citizen Science Association in Lithuania and currently she is a member of ECSA Board of Directors. She was appointed as expert by the Lithuanian national government for the EC H2020 Programme Committee for Societal Challenge 6 “Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies”, and served as member of Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on NMBP (Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies). Also, she served as external expert at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education Lithuania. Currently, she serves as expert evaluator for various organizations, including: the Research Council of Lithuania, and European Commission. She is an Advisory Board member in two H2020 projects Socio-BEE and INCENTIVE. Also, she is a national representative of Lithuania for the International Social Survey Programme.
She has published over 50 articles in peer review journals and book chapters. Together with Professor Thomas Bryer, she is responsible for editing a book series “Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness”, published by Lexington Books.
