Meet our Event  Speakers

Sophia Eriksson Waterschoot - Director for Youth, Education and Erasmus+ at the European Commission's Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
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Twitter: @sophiabrussel

She is in charge of European cooperation on higher education, schools and youth policy, including Europe's flagship programmes Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps. She has previously held various positions within the European Commission in the field of strategy and investment in education, labour market policy, European Semester and European cohesion funds. She studied economics, business, political science and EU affairs in Sweden, France and Belgium, including an Erasmus student exchange.  

Tony Geudens -  SALTO Inclusion & Diversity (Youth)

Works for SALTO Inclusion since 2000, bringing a wide diversity of target groups with fewer opportunities to the EU youth programmes.

A road map to more and better inclusion:  We all intuitively feel how we could improve inclusion and diversity in our organisations and projects. SALTO Inclusion & Diversity collated all these ID actions in a comprehensive, interactive ID Road Map that helps you/us reach important milestones on the road to more and better inclusion. A handy tool to move ID forward.

Monica Calotă -  Director - ANPCDEFP, Bucharest, Romania
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Monica graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics (Univ. of Bucharest). She has a Master’s degree in Governance and institutional development and a post-university certification as expert in educational management.
She started her professional life as a Mathematics teacher in 1979. In 1994-1995 she taught Mathematics in France, which was really a turning point for her, opening perspectives about European cooperation and diversity. In 1999, Monica joined the Socrates National Agency, as deputy director. Since 2005, she is the head of ANPCDEFP – the Romanian NA for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes.
Monica’s motto is “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

Diana Stafie -  Future Station 

Founder of Future Station. Diana is a strategic foresight consultant and leads organizations in their strategic planning / future exploration.

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ID Futures: Exploring ID futures - trends and novelties.​

Meet our Workshop Leaders

Lia Burg - Identity.Education, Timisoara, Romania

Activist and Community Manager in Identity.Education, passionate about facilitating Digital Storytelling workshops to help give voice to her community.

Introduction to Digital Storytelling: Digital Storytelling is a powerful tool for giving voice to communities and uniting people through our vulnerability. This workshop explores the impact of personal narratives in fostering empathy, understanding and promoting inclusive cultures, through the use of multimedia elements like images, videos, and audio and can be used in various settings such as education, advocacy, and social change.

Melanie Pichler - Jugend Eine Welt/ WeltWegWeiser - Service Platform for International Volunteering, Vienna/Austria

Inclusion has been on my mind since I volunteered in Sweden in 1999 and later as a teacher, trainer and project manager. 

Inspired by Inclusion – how can we make seminars inclusive for all:   In this workshop we will explore the following questions: What makes a seminar inclusive? How can we create an accessible learning environment? What are possible barriers for people with disabilities to actively participate? What are support needs in hearing, vision, motor skills and complexity? How can we design methods in a way that no one is excluded?

Iris Popescu - AMAIS, Bucharest, Romania

I’m an architect specialized in accessibility and inclusive design through the NGO I started in 2015, AMAIS.

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Empathy Retreat - Inclusive Dialogue:  Using the Empathy Retreat as an instrument to take the first steps into inclusive design process -  understanding exclusion.

Izabella Worona - International Association of Culture Crooked Theatre
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Theater director and facilitator. Working methods based on theatre of improvisation and drama.

The Movement Project - self journey to the World: TAll elements of the "Sharing for the Movement" project built the concept of movement, such as displacement, change of position, path followed by the body, path, distance, time, speed, acceleration and even stagnation, can be associated with almost any situation in which a young person can find himself. Lack of action should turn into movement, i.e. animation and decision making.

Daniel Gismera Casasola - Las Niñas del Tul, Granada (Spain)
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Social educator with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of youth, non-formal education and work with people with fewer opportunities.

Hone in on the impact: Impact in communities with fewer opportunities through work on participation and personal development.