Evridiki Zachopoulou, Professor, Dept. of Early Childhood Care & Education, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Dr. Evridiki Zachopoulou is a Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Care & Education, Faculty of Health and Medical Care at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (Greece). She teaches in this Department since 2003, when she was elected to the position of Associate Professor. Formerly she was lecturer at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science at the Democritus University of Thrace (1999 to 2003).

Her main research interests are focused on:
(a) the enhancement of the professional development of early childhood caregivers and educators,
(b) the evaluation of the quality of early childhood education,
(c) the implementation of intervention programs for preschool aged children and their effects on children's development, and
(d) the creativity in teaching and the creative child. She has published over 40 papers in international scientific journals and she has more than 80 presentations at World Conferences, while her h-index is 9. Dr. Zachopoulou has been extensively involved in National and European Research Projects since the beginning of her career (1999), without any gaps in her research career. She has also organized in-service training seminars for early childhood educations and physical educators in various European countries.