Barbara Worek - employee of the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University and the AGH University of Science and Technology, and expert at the Center for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at UJ. Leader and participant of Polish and international research projects on education, human capital, labor market. Author and co-author of publications on lifelong learning, research methodology and numerous research reports. Since 2008 she has been involved in the study of the Human Capital Balance (BLK), and since 2020 in research projects related to the development of distributed energy in Poland. Her interests focus on lifelong learning, social aspects of distributed energy development in Poland and computer-aided analysis of qualitative data, including the use of artificial intelligence in data analysis. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation of European Regions for Research on Education and Vocational Training (FREREF), the Sectoral Competence Council of the Development Services Sector, the advisory group for micro-credentialing at the IBE, the Polish Sociological Association, the Polish Evaluation Society and the Malopolska Think Tank for Human Resources Development.