OUR TEAM
Project Administrator: Joana Pereira
Joana Pereira is a youth worker. Her training includes a master's degree in psychology of deviant behavior and justice and a specialization in gender equality. Her interests include social justice, human rights, and inequality reduction. Passionate about non-formal education, she has many years of experience in Erasmus+ projects.
Project Manager: Nikolas Nikolaou
Nikolas Nikolaou is a crucial part of the project and he is managing the logistical, and economic part of the project as well as the travelling arrangements. Nikolas Nikolaou (president of NGO ACPELIA) plays a central or peripheral role in every project with his expert knowledge. Due to the fact that he is successful as a coach and organizer in his personal life as we can see from the small CV that follows he is going to have 2 evenings training of youth workers about his experience in coaching.
President of our Organization (Mr Nikolas Nikolaou, physics teacher in high school, BSC, MSc in Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens and MSc, BSc in the University of Cyprus at Physics department) has previous experience by taking part in many seminars and actions related to Environment, Non-Formal Education, Entrepreneurship and Discrimination. He organized and participated in more than 20 European programs which are doing with Non-Formal Education (KA105, KA205, KA229, Youth In Action) as well as several local environmental and Science projects with groups of young people, many of them can be found in his website: www.nikolas-nikolaou.net. Also, Nikolas is coordinating the biggest students and teacher annual Conference about Natural Sciences that is a yearly conference in Cyprus with the participation of more than 1000 students and more than 300 teachers. He manages to coach a team of the organising committee and to make them all do well for 10 years now that is taking place the Conference starting alone and now has a big team to coordinate.
TRAINER: OLYA KUZNETSOVA
Olya was actually the person who wrote the application. In this regard, she will be the main trainer. Olya Kuznetsova has been involved in youth work in Belarus since 2013. She has been initiating, designing, fundraising and implementing projects, organizing events on the local level on the topics of personal development, social entrepreneurship and design thinking in youth work, digital literacy, ecology, inclusion, arts and culture. Also she's been acting as a trainer and a facilitator on the international level within Erasmus+ program. Olga is also experienced in designing the educational process, using and adapting creative techniques and methodologies of non-formal education. At the moment she has been pursuing her Master's in business, management and innovation.
TRAINER: OLYA KHVASEVICH
Olya Khvasevich has experience both in formal and non-formal education and has been involved in youth work since 2013. She gets involved in creation and implementation stages of the educational events on the local and international level on the topics of personal development, active citizenship, participation, inclusion, arts and culture. Olya is passionate about theater and art. She participated in the troop of youth amateur theater "Insight" in Minsk (2017-2019), also taking part in a variety of workshops. She also took part in the long-term training course for trainers "Art of togetherness" (France, 2018), in order to improve facilitating skills and trainer's competences. After, in 2021 she studied Modern theatre in European College of Liberal Arts in Minsk, taking part in the performances on socially important topics. Olya strongly believes in the power of arts and non-formal education and the positive impact they have on people.
Assistant Project Manager/Trainer: Evangelia Nikolaou
Evangelia Nikolaou graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a first-class PLUS honours degree in Philosophy with Media. She did a Postgraduate Philosophy Degree at the University of Bristol on the strength of a fully-funded Think Big scholarship. As a youth worker, she was physically involved in the following Erasmus Plus Projects: Biodiversity of Rivers (Romania, 2014), Climate Changes as Fast as Fashion (Cyprus, 2014), Non-Formal Environmental Education (Cyprus, 2015), Save Our Environment Save Ourselves (2018-2019), Act for Changes (2021), Out of the Box (Cyprus, 2021), Another way (Italy, 2021). As a project manager, assistant project manager, or Trainer, she is involved in some of the following projects: Green Innovation and Circular Economy, Re-connect with Nature, Closing the Gender Gap and Empowerment of All Women Through Education, etc. Her research focuses on issues of environmental sustainability, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and she is constantly on the lookout for ways to expand these concepts. More particularly, empathy is her area of interest and expertise. She strives to link empathy with diversity, equality, inclusion, and eco-friendliness, in all of her endeavours. She is fluent in Greek, English, and German, whereas her interests include volunteering, being involved with Erasmus+ Projects, reading books, as well as writing, having published a philosophical book.