Valeria Damiani has a PhD in Education and is an Associate Professor at LUMSA University, Italy. She worked as a researcher for the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016 and was a member of the Joint Management Committee of ICCS 2022. Her research interests include civic and citizenship education, global citizenship education, education for sustainable development, educational research and social inclusion. Bruno Losito has a PhD in Education and was a full professor at Roma Tre University, Italy. He participated in several international comparative studies with research interests in civic and citizenship education, comparative studies, and assessment. He was the Italian national research coordinator and member of the international Steering Committee for CIVED 1999 and has been associate research director of ICCS (2009, 2016, and 2022). Gabriella Agrusti is a full professor at the Department of Humanities, LUMSA University, Italy. She received her Ph.

D. in education from Roma Tre University, Italy where she became member of the Joint Management Committee for IEA ICCS since 2009 cycle. She is co-director of Cadmo. An International Journal of Educational Research (Indexed in SSCI Scopus). Her research interests are in the areas of civic and citizenship education, inference processing and assessment practices. Wolfram Schulz is Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research. He has high-level experience as leader of large-scale assessment programs and, as an author of numerous publications about international and national research, he is a leading expert in the field of international comparative research. His areas of research interest include civic and citizenship education, computer information literacy and assessment methodology.