Organización/Empresa:
ÏKU, Senior researcher-FNRS-FRS, University of Liège

Cargo:
Head

Head of the ÏKU (Interactions, Knowledge, Usage) research unit, Françoise Decortis is a senior researcher (FNRS, FRS) and Lecturer at the University of Liège in Belgium. She holds a PhD in Psychology and Educational Sciences from University of Liège (1992) and an “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” from the University of Paris VIII. Her research interests concern the interrelations among learning, interactive media, design, creativity and narrative. She has contributed to various EU programmes (within FP4, FP5, FP6), which aimed at: researching active tools, tangible media to develop children creativity and narrative competence (I3 Experimental School Environment, POGO), understanding and developing cooperative technologies in complex social settings (Training and Mobility of Researchers (COTCOS, COSI), investigating concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies (Network of excellence Kaleidoscope on Technology enhanced learning), understanding intergenerational learning in public spaces (PIAZZA, PUENTE Minerva). Through these projects, she gained an experience of EU research tools. From 1986 to 1996, she was an EU agent at the joint research centre of Ispra in Italy.