Julia Prohaska is a staff member of the department for IT-Didactics at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Prior to that, she worked as a teacher for English, biology and Digitale Grundbildung (basic digital literacy) at a secondary school in Lower Austria. She holds in-service seminars at the Pädagog-ische Hochschule Niederösterreich (University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria) with a main focus on digital competencies and the use of technology in foreign language teaching. Furthermore, she is involved in designing and tutor-ing online trainings for teachers at Virtuelle PH. She has contributed to initiatives by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in the field of digital competencies of teachers (digi.kompP, digi.checkP).

Marlene Miglbauer is an associate professor in English Applied Linguistics and elearning at the University College of Teacher Education Burgenland. From 2018 until 2020, she was also the head of the National Centre of Competence Virtuelle PH. Her research interests include language and power in political discourse, prag-matics in social media discourse, as well as extramural English and autonomous learning in higher education. She is co-author of digi.kompP, the framework of dig-ital competencies for teachers in Austria, and Discourses of Brexit, published by Routledge.