Flourishing through character: perspectives on virtue, life skills, and competencies in 21st century education

Professor Verónica Fernández is Professor at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and founder and Director of its Virtue and Values Education Centre. With over 30 years of experience in education, she has served as a school principal and led teacher training and leadership programmes nationally and internationally. Her teaching and research focus on educational leadership, virtue ethics, and character education. She is the author or editor of several publications and serves as Vice-President of the European Character and Virtue Association.

Professor Claudis Navarini is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the European University of Rome, where she has taught since its foundation in 2005. Her teaching and research focus on moral philosophy, moral psychology, virtue ethics, bioethics, and neuroethics. She also teaches at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and is the director of the ARETAI Centre on Virtues, member of the Neurobioethics Group, and the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. She is the author of numerous publications and seven monographs.

Professor James Arthur is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Birmingham and former Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. He has held senior academic leadership roles at Birmingham and honorary or visiting appointments at institutions including Oxford, Glasgow, Boston College, and the University of Virginia, and he currently holds an appointment at Harvard University. His work focuses on character, virtue, citizenship, religion, and education. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2018 and received the Expanded Reason Award in 2020 and currently serves as President of the European Character and Virtue Association.