Ewa Bandura, a senior lecturer in the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, has been involved in foreign language teacher training for over twenty years. She defended her PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include: the intercultural dimension in educational policies and foreign language teaching, and more recently, fostering criticality as a transversal competence through foreign language education. She has participated in several educational and research projects initiated by the British Council, Cultnet (an international research group founded by Prof. M. Byram at University of Durham, UK) and EU-US Atlantis Programme. She has been a member (recently a member of the Committee) of the Association for Language Awareness. She has published with Tertium, Multilingual Matters, Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholars, and Information Age Publishing.