Project Manager: Nikolas Nikolaou

Nikolas Nikolaou (president of NGO ACPELIA) will have the main coordination of the program and actually he is the one that he will have in mind the whole procedure with partners organisations and he is going to keep timetable as an expert project manager. Due to the fact that he is an 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 several European programs which are doing with Non Formal Education such as: Climate Changes As Fast As Fashion 2013 - 2015, Youth Exchange in Youth in Action Program, 2013 - 2015, Cyprus, www.ccafaf.webnode.com, Non Formal Environmental Education, https://www.nofee.webnode.com/, Training for Youth Workers, Erasmus Plus , 2015, Save Our Environment Save OurSelves, https://sites.google.com/view/soesos/home, double youth exchange about green entrepreneurship, 2018 - 2019; Another Way, KA205, Erasmus Plus program in adults education about another way of designing touristic and cultural paths for blind people. Erasmus Plus program with 4 countries (beneficiary country Italia) Project Manager of the program. 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 manage to coach a team of the organised committee and to make them all doing well for 10 years now that is taking place the Conference starting alone and now has a big team to coordinate.

Trainer: Maria Filaktou

Maria Filaktou is going to be the main trainer of the program in our seven mornings for the seven subjects of our program. Maria is a Lawyer - LLB at the University of Cyprus and the University of Sheffield has previous experience by taking part in many non-formal activities seminars and actions related to coaching, team-work, conflict resolution, self improvement, public speaking, non formal methodology: Act Out of the Box, Montemor-o-Vehlo (Portugal), Effective Digital Habits in Youth Work, Orvelte (Netherlands), Improve your Sustainable Future (Social Entrepreneurship), Naples (Italy), Keep Calm and Start Coaching, Dunasziget (Hungary), Summer School on European Commercial Law, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (Cyprus), Organizing Committee of the Summer School on Competition Law, ELSA Cyprus (European Law Student's Association), Nicosia (Cyprus), Summer School on European Company Law Commenius University (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) and University of Economics and Business (Vienna - Austria), Participation in the Euroscola program, a simulation of a plenary Session of the European, Parliament in Strasbourg and the Parlamentarium Program in Brussels, Belgium and many others responsibilities according her studies and self improvement as a layer.

Trainer: Erma Georgiou

Erma Georgiou has a great passion in the development of individuals as well as groups, and this is the reason that she decided to become facilitator at Acpelia. She gained a BA in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens, and then graduated from the drama school of G. Armenis.She is also registered as a yoga and meditation teacher from yoga Aliance Institude and has attended various seminar on theatrical techniques such as physical theatre, voice lessons e.t.c.But,she always searching ways to empower people and finding therapy through arts and therefore she attended drama therapy lessons. She has worked with children of refugee background in Elix N.G.O at Athens and she attended to the workshop "Facilitate Teachers using the arts in working with groups" from P.Y.E organization and she was impressed by the creativity of the process as well as the potential of arts to empower people. Shortly thereafter, she joined the Erasmus Plus non-formal education program called "How to be a mentor" in Lithuania. This program enabled her to see deeper that empowering others is the direction that she wish to grow professionally. During this programme she gained skills and competences such as the ability to commit in supporting, inspiring and motivating a positive outlook for the future.Afterwards, she found a creative program called "Mnimosini" at Hellenic Youth Participation,a group that the participants connect to each other through various artistic activities such as dance,dramatherapy,expression in painting and movement etc in order to create local art actions exploring the idea of identity and transformation. Last year, representing SEAL CYPRUS in the trainers' training "Dramatize" in Ukraine gave her the opportunity to expand in both a professional and personal level, while acquiring tools in which she can bring together both her passion for theatre as well as her passion to empower people and organizations.Last but not least, she educated and certified as aManadoob educator, a social emotional program that empowers and enrich the lives of children and at this moment she attends an online course "Introduction to Dialogue Facilitation", a useful tool for every facilitator.

Trainer: Albino Pereira

Our third trainer is going to be Albino Pereira the president of the organisation No Gordio from Portugal. Albino is an expert coach and he is the director of School Grouping in Vilela since July'2012. in Portugal. He is fun of Non Formal Education and he took part as participant, leader, trainer in a lot of Erasmus programs as he is also coordinator for decades Erasmus programs in the block of schools that he is director and also as president of his organisation in Portugal. Albino Martins Nogueira Pereira he has a BSC and MSC in Mathematics from the University of Porto, a Diploma in School Management and Administration. He is a Trainer of the Pedagogical Commission of CFAEPPP, Post-Graduation and specialization in Neuroeducation and a Maths teacher from 1989-2009, he has experience in numerous Erasmus+ projects (Ka1 and ka2). He has good communication and relational skills and he is a fluent speaker of several languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, English and French). According to all these that he is able to do he is going to have 2 evening lessons to the program giving his own example for successful coaching.