Tekstje,

I’m Joerie Traversier from Belgium and I’m 29 years old. I work as System and Network Administrator for Howest in Bruges. In my spare time I sport/exercise a lot. I also keep myself busy with photography.

I am Finnish currently living in Finland, but I have been around the globe for the last decade. Since September 2007 I have worked as a full-time lecturer in the Degree Programme on Civic Activism and Youth Work at HUMAK, the University of Applied Sciences, Finland. I mainly teach courses on intercultural communication, equality, participatory and co-operative methods on non-formal education and youth work.  Before Humak I worked as a freelance trainer and coordinator for the Council of Europe (CoE) human rights campaign All Different, All Equal. In general I have my back ground on non –formal education, global education and advocacy work.

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Isabelle Ostyn

age: 32

Lives in Gent, worked for some years as youth worker in Antwerp and Ghent. Now active as Internship-coach, project developper- and coach, teacher 'youth work' and 'youth criminology' at Howest campus Kortrijk. At this very moment working on a study on interculturality. Looking forward to join this IP

I am lecturer at the Faculty of Theology, University of Craiova. I am also orthodox priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church. My PhD is in Systematic Theology with the dissertation: The Anthropology from Christological perspective: the doctrinal basis of the spiritual life (Tomis Archdiocese Publishing House, Constanţa, 2007, 571 pages). I teach: Orthodox Spirituality, Orthodox Dogmatics, Apologetics, and Spiritual Formation.

I like to fight for the respect of human dignity and equality, and I am always trying to show that it is possible to change the word if you start with your own changing.

I’m portuguese, born and teaching in Santarém, but living in Lisbon.

In Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém, I’ve been teaching formal and non formal educators on Portuguese Langue and Culture, Library Development, Writing, Social/Cultural Methodologies, Project Design and Development, Community and Local Development, etc. I’m also project coach and internship supervisor.

I’m interested in research on gender, equal opportunities, social economy, literature, libraries, psycho-social and educative intervention and sexual education.

The things I most like to do are to tell stories, to work with books and make them, to write, to read, to travel and meet different people.

MONICA TILEA

Monica holds a PhD in compared literature. She is senior lecturer at the University of Craiova where she teaches visual semiotics, reception theories, literary theory, French culture and civilization.

She enjoys teaching and working with students and she strongly believes that non formal methods of education can bring a welcome breath of fresh air to academic teaching. She coordinates a student workshop of advertising creation and her topics of interest include cultural studies and intercultural learning.

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Name: Hugo Almeida aka Halden Beaumont | Age: 29 |
Academic skills: Master degree in Education and Multimedia Communication
Work Area: Documentary and Machinima Filmmaker / Creative Producer / Teacher at Santarém
High School of Education of development of technological projects, filmmaking and multimedia.

. Coordinator & Manager for Web 2.0. platforms, Social
Networks and Virtual Environments;

. Multimedia Manager & Communication director;

. Creative producer and Designer in Second Life;

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I am Pieter – Jan Uyttersprot or more shortly, P.J..

I am a Belgian Youth worker / trainer living in France since a few years, in Bretagne and more specifically in Québriac.

My main job consists in giving training (mostly on European level) to youth workers, social workers, animators, educators on topics like Intercultural learning, non formal education human rights education, animation and active youth participation.

I am actually working as project manager for ENOA (European network of Animation) and as a trainer for a little French local organisation called E Ki Libro.

My interests/hobbies: I play music (trumpet, clarinet, tuba, guitar, ...) I like to travel, I like to drink a beer with friends, to enjoy life in general.

See you soon

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Marta Tagarro comes from Portugal. She is a Psychologist and Art-Psychotherapist. Lecturer at ESES, she teaches creative and expressive methodologies and conduces internships. She also conducts a group of art therapy  with people with Hiv. In the past, she worked in an outreach team intervening directly with drug addicted, homeless, alcoholic and prostitution in the streets of Lisbon. She has been in several youth projects (about citizenship, intercultural learning, intercultural dialogue etc.) around Europe, as a participant and as a trainer. In these international projects was born in her a big interest in interculturality and in motivating youth to participate and live this kind of experiences that can change mentalities and ways of seeing the world

I´m Portuguese, my name is Isabel and I´m 34 years old. I Work in Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém (ESES), the portuguese partner school, and I teach special needs education and animation directed to public with disabilities. I’m also internship supervisor.

As a psychologist, I’m interested in self-regulated learning (independent learning), promotion of autonomy and social competences and health promotion and education.

My favourite hobbies are travelling, reading and volunteer work.

Sandrine is 36 years old. She is French and currently lives in Rennes in Brittany.

Professionally speaking, she is teaching social economics at the Technical Institute (IUT) of Rennes, in the department of Social Work (more precisely of Social and Cultural animation). She is also in charge of the international relations of the department. She has been part of this nice adventure of European project from the beginning, in 2005.

In terms of hobbies, she enjoys doing volunteer work for an NGO focused on international solidarity and during her free time, she is practicing Breton, Irish and African dancing, a great mixture of cultures!

Christelle is 38 years old, typically French bad level of English (you
will see!!). I’m teaching social psychology. My topics of research are
linked with intercultural thematic. I work on immigration: the way
immigrants are perceived by host community, the way they perceived their
own integration, .... I’m also interested by the question of integration
of gypsies in France. So, in general, questions of discriminations,
stereotypes, identity, conflicts… are my cup of tea.

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I believe this is the role of, non formal education, particularly youth and social work to promote and defend some human values in order to give opportunities for people to build a better living together...that's the main reason for me to do this job.

Coming from Bretagne, France, I work for Luciole NGO which aims:

-       to promote active participation of inhabitants in social life, particularly of young adults

-       to promote intercultural and human rights education

I’ve mainly 3 ways to act: coaching / training / project designing

Regarding our target groups, we try to work with all actors of education (children, young, teachers and trainers, teachers of teachers and trainers of trainers, youth workers, civil society, local authorities…) from local to European level. I'm working also with some municipalities, Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe and Youth in Action program.

I'm also teacher at the university of social work of Rennes...Because I do belive that we need to deelop bridges between formal and non formal education actors and institutions, we are all here to equip people to build their place in the society!!!

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