Ingrid Van Rompay-Bartels received her PhD from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2015. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Global Citizenship Expertise team at HAN UAS, where her work focuses on global citizenship, intercultural competence, and intercultural virtual collaboration competence. In addition, she has extensive international experience designing curricula, teaching, and researching intercultural competencies needed to navigate cross-cultural contexts. Her current role in the expertise team consists of leading and coordinating research activities on Global Citizenship topics essential to being part of the shift to a more empathetic, diverse, inclusive, and sustainable society. In addition, she contributes to publications and shares her research results at local, national, and international workshops and conferences. Her research in the education project 'Raising Global Citizens at Home' received the 2022-2024 Comenius Senior fellowship award to innovate in education.