Daniel Briggs is Professor of Criminology at the Universidad Europea in Madrid, Spain and a poet.

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Conveyor belt poem. Issue 24

Pascal Chaumette is a project advisor at the "Mission Locale-Espace Ressources Jeunes" in Roubaix, in northern France, which serves as a branch office for the Youth for Europe programmes. He is also the coordinator of a European network. This work gives him the possibility to put his convictions into practice on a daily basis. His considers this a chance that he attributes to his perserverance, but mainly it means that he puts his skills and competencies at the service of the local organisations.

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European training courses : A springboard for locally-based European projects (Issue 0)

Sulkhan is a freelance trainer and youth worker, human rights believer, foodie and traveller, based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

He became involved in youth work and human rights education in 2010 and believes that joy of empowering young people makes his job a piece of cake.

 EDC/HRE in Wonderland?! (Issue 25)

Dirk De Vilder works part-time as a project manager in a residential youth care centre in Leuven, Belgium. He is also a free-lance trainer, working a.o. for the European Youth Centres, Youth for Europe Agencies and Outward Bound School. Special interest in experiential learning in outdoor activities, social exclusion, teamwork, communication and leadership training and intercultural learning.

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Some thoughts about experiential learning (Issue 0)

Nuno is an educational activist interested in innovation, systems change, paradigm shift and the magic of life. He was one of the trainers who delivered the European Citizenship In Youth Work Training Courses, a part of the National Agencies Network Trainings between 2007 and 2016. He is based in Faro, Portugal, from where he reaches out to the world working as a freelancer, involved in the emergence network and coordinating RECIFE – Network of Collaborative Initiatives for an Ecosystemic Future.

 European Citizenship at the Edge of Our Times: Reconfiguring Youth Work Practices in a World in Transition (Issue 25)

Kurt has been German EDC/HRE Co-ordinator since 2009, appointed by the Standing Committee of Ministers of Education (Berlin). He was a teacher in Hamburg from 1977 to 2004, then Head of the “Society” Department in the Hamburg Institute for Teacher Training (LI) until retirement in 2015. He has been a Green activist since 1981 and member of parliament in Hamburg. His special interests are: raising awareness of anti-democratic ideologies and tendencies, contribution of political background information and analysis to social networks, support of democratic development in schools and youth centres, counselling students’ representatives, school staff and political decision makers.

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• Extremism prevention: some remarks on the German experience (Issue 25)

Asier is a youth worker, a freelance international youth work trainer and consultant living between Scotland, Spain and Denmark.

  EDC/HRE in Wonderland?! (Issue 25)

Dariusz is a youth worker and a trainer/consultant in educational projects across Europe addressing violence, discrimination, hate speech, racism, peace and human rights. But most of all, he is a human rights educator.

Rooted in local youth groups, his international work experience includes the Amnesty International Secretariat in London, where he worked as a human rights education advisor. He also worked for in the Council of Europe as an educational advisor at the European Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest. In 2016 and 2017, he was a part of the team responsible for the review of the implementation of the Council of Europe Charter on EDC/HRE and the evaluation of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme of the Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe. He is also the author of several educational materials on human rights education. 

Dariusz currently works in Szansa, a local NGO is Glogow (Poland) advising and monitoring the work of the youth workers who work with the issues of violence, including gender-based violence.

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• Just a minute… about EDC/HRE? (Issue 25)

Demetrio Gomez-Avila works as a youth worker and trainer with young people, Roma and others, in difficult living-situations and neighbourhoods. He has been involved in serveral projects including drug abuse and intercultural work. Born in Mexico, he lives in Valencia, Spain.

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The patchwork of Roma culture : Exploring a world of diversity (Issue 0)

Mara works as youth work and policy officer at the EU – CoE youth partnership. She has worked in the field of youth in different capacities: as a local youth worker and human rights educator, as project officer and trainer in civil society organisations and in the Youth Department of the Council of Europe as educational advisor. Her main areas of interest are youth work, social inclusion, intercultural learning and dialogue, human rights education and participation.

  Articles:

• Snapshots at European level (Issue 25)
• Voice of Young People (Issue 25)

Rui coordinates the programme of education and training activities of the Youth Departments of the Council of Europe, including those held at the European Youth Centres of Budapest and Strasbourg. He has been active in human rights education since the launching of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme in 2000 with the specific purpose of including human rights education in the mainstream of youth policy and youth work. He has authored and co-authored various publications such as Compass – the manual for human rights education with young people.

 Why do we need EDC/HRE? (Issue 25)

Bryony  holds a chair in Comparative Social Science at the University of Roehampton, London. She is an internationally renowned expert on political socialisation (learning politics), specialising in political engagement across European countries. Her current research projects are on inequalities and political engagement, political socialisation, and volunteering.

Bryony has considerable experience in policy-making as she previously worked at the Council of Europe (CoE) leading on youth research, at the European Commission (EC) in Belgium and then at the EC in Italy leading the development of indicators on Active Citizenship.

She is currently performing a consultancy for UNESCO on developing indicators for Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals and develops a survey on Citizenship for UNICEF for the MENA region. She has recently completed a consultancy for the CoE analysing questionnaires from the member states as part of 2016 review of the implementation of the CoE Charter. 

 Socio-economic inequalities in political engagement: the consequences of limited citizenship education within vocational education and training (Issue 25)

Triin Ilves is a journalist and project co-ordinator in European Youth Press’ Orange magazine. Seeking new opportunities and experiences, she joined the Coyote editorial team to discover the world of youth work.

Articles:

• Overcoming the fear of the unknown. Issue 24
• Training plan for youth work - Inclu-Fit & Mobi-Dance. (with Marlies Poschl) Issue 24

Snežana Bačlija Knoch is a freelance trainer and facilitator, active in the European youth work field. She is motivated by diversity of thoughts, values and beliefs and inspired by travelling, playing, cats and clown noses. Oh, and a lot of questions! Coyote editorial team member.

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• Why is it so difficult to include “inclusion” in mobility talks and discussions? Issue 24
• How inclusive is the (Erasmus ) Youth in Action programme? Issue 24

Soren Kristensen is from Denmark and has for many years been occupied with learning mobility, both at national and European levels. He is currently working as an independent research professional, based in Copenhagen.

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Effects of mobility and how to measure them. Issue 24

Yoruk Kurtaran is a researcher in İstanbul Bilgi University’s Youth Studies Unit.

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Fact and figures from the youth mobility “scene” in Turkey. Issue 24

Maija works for the SALTO South East Europe Resource Centre, which promotes cooperation between Erasmus+ Programme countries and the programme's neighbouring partner countries in the Western Balkan region. In the past years she has been working predominantly on activities focusing on the topic of Europe from the perspective of integration, citizenship and identities.

 Is European citizenship still relevant in youth work and non-formal education in today’s Europe? (Issue 25)

Larissa is a board member of OBESSU since last summer and excited for another year of her mandate. She studies at the University in Edinburgh, but has been involved in representing and organising school students since the age of 16 when she became elected president of her local Austrian school student council. She has gone through all stages of student participation and truly experienced the power of the school student movement herself. In her European work she mainly focuses on social inclusion in education, in particular of refugees and migrants, and the relationship between education and labour markets.

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• Organising for democratic education (OBESSU) with Ferre WINDEY (Issue 25)

Susi Nicodemi is a freelance international youth work consultant living in the UK.

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We need more bowling and fewer boxes for the learning mobility of young people. Issue 24

Daniel has been working at the Lisbon City Council since 2000, first as Public Relations in the area of Planning and Urbanism and since 2010 in the field of adult education, especially in the field of autobiographical narrative processes.

From 2005 until 2011 he also worked as a founding member of the Agency MAL - Movimento Acorda Lisboa, focused on the use of urban public space for cultural purpose.

In 2015 Daniel attended a training for Facilitators of Human Rights and Democratic Citizenship and has been involved in EDC/HRE actions for City Council workers as well as for youth and citizens since then, including the three SOMOS Schools that took place so far. 

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• SOMOS Lisbon Programme for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (Issue 25)

John O’Regan lectures in the School of English language education at Thames Valley University, London. He has been a teacher on the EYC English language course since 1989 and the Course Director since 1993. At Thames Valley University he is also involved in teacher training, direct language teaching, and undergraduate and postgraduate studies. His interests include intercultural learning through language, teaching language through content, EAP, ESP and discourse analysis. In the 13 years since he became a teacher John has worked in Europe, south-east Asia and South America.

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Methodological developments in intercultural learning through language –with John WATERMAN (Issue 0)

Lucija Popovska worked as the head of the Civic Society Department of the Macedonian Centre for International Co-operation in Skopje, "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".

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Aliens on the Balkans : Trainer ?!! What on earth is that! (Issue 0)

Maari works as a Project Coordinator of the ‘Youth for Human Rights’ in the Estonian National Agency of the Erasmus+ programme.

She also coordinates the Estonian No Hate Speech Movement campaign in the field of youth.

She is currently Tallinn-based. Prior to working for the Estonian NA, she has been living in Brussels, Stockholm and Budapest. Her main fields are gender and migration.

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• “Youth for Human Rights” – Erasmus+ National Agencies and their partners join forces (Issue 25)

Ruxandra works as an educational advisor for the Youth Department of the Council of Europe. She has been involved in the Human Rights Education Youth Programme for the past seven years, including in the civil society review of the Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. 

 What’s love got to do with … human rights education? (Issue 25)

Tali Padan runs her own organisation, Mellem Education, in Denmark and delivers training courses on how the personal connects with the political.

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• Learning through mobility: the story of Habib, an asylum seeker from Iran. Issue 24
• Fix the system or ourselves? Issue 24

Juliana Roth teaches Intercultural Communication at Munich University/Germany. Her academic background is in Slavic studies, East European history and ethnology. A native of Bulgaria, she lives and works in Germany and has often had teaching assignments in Russia and the US.

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Intercultural learning in European youth work: Some east-west perspectives (Issue 0)

Claudia Schachinger is working as European Secretary of JECI-MIEC (International Young Catholic Students). She studied communication in Vienna (final thesis on AIDS education in Uganda), is Austrian and at present living in Belgium.

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To walk in your shoes...: Training course on intercultural learning (Issue 0)

Jacques Spelekens is Corporate Social Responsibility Co-ordinator Benelux for ENGIE.

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The lonesome rider... Issue 24

Ozgehan Şenyuva is an associate professor at Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Issue 24

Felisa has carried out internal and external evaluations for two decades, including formal and non-formal education initiatives, with a focus on human rights and citizenship education with youth. She teachers monitoring and evaluation in the International Comparative Education Program at Columbia University (NYC) as well as online for Human Rights Education Associates (HREA).

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• Have we made a positive difference? Evaluation of HRE (Issue 25)

Mark is a trainer and writer and plays ukulele from his current base in Strasbourg, France. Empowering learners is his passion. Commitment to the recognition of non-formal learning led him to contribute to the development of the European Portfolio for Youth Workers and Leaders and to Youthpass and be a member of its Advisory Group. He is a partner in the via Experientia consortium which sets out to expand the contours of experiential learning and research. A founding member and now editor of Coyote magazine, he is also editor of the Tools for Learning magazine.

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Marker : A historic farewell, gadgets and banners, and a thought for the future. Issue 24

Edito. Issue 25

Zara is a human rights educator and disability rights activist from the UK. She works with people aged 4 and up to explore human rights and disability. She has recently become  the Director of ENIL (the European Network on Independent Living) a disabled people's organisation working across the Council of Europe member states on disabled people's human rights, particularly the right to live in our communities.

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• The limits of education. Simulating Disability (Issue 25)

Barbara has been Global Director for Human Rights Education at Amnesty International since October 2014. She has worked in the human rights field for the past twenty years, managing national, cross-regional and global teams. Prior to her current post, Barbara was Director of Amnesty International Austria, worked in the Anti-Discrimination field and established a Service Centre for HRE at the Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. She has served on boards of academic institutions and civil society organisations.

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• Amnesty International, Global perspective on HRE (Issue 25)

Ferre is a board member of OBESSU, living in Ghent, Belgium. At the moment he is studying at university but couldn’t say farewell to school student activism just yet. He started as a local activist in his school student council and extended his engagement to the regional level as a board member of VSK, the Flemish School Student Union. Being active as a school student activist for over 8 years now, he has gathered quite some experience in matters such as democratic citizenship education from a school student perspective.

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• Organising for democratic education (OBESSU) with Larissa NENNING (Issue 25)

John Waterman has been a practising language teacher for 19 years, and a teacher trainer for the last 15 years. During this time he has worked throughout Europe, and also in Latin America. He now lectures in the School of English Language Education at Thames Valley University, London. He has been a Course Tutor on the EYC language course since 1996. At Thames Valley University he is involved in Teacher education, English for General Purposes, and teaching English through Information and Communication Technology (ICT). His interests include intercultural learning through language, Reading, Learning English through ICT, and Taskbased learning.

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Methodological developments in intercultural learning through language –with  John O'REGAN (Issue 0)

Sérgio co-founded and worked for 7 years in the local youth NGO Dínamo. He is working as a professional educator since 2010, on themes such as Youth Participation, Human Rights, non-formal Education and Euro-Arab cooperation. He was a member of the Portuguese National Youth Council (2010-15) Trainers Pool and is a member of the Pool of Trainers of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe since 2013. He was a junior trainer in the CoE ToTHRE (2013-14), co-facilitator on the European Youth Work Convention (2015) and trainer of the first Youth Delegation on the World Forum for Democracy (2013). Sérgio was co-translator of the CoE Charter on EDC/HRE and Compass 2012 edition, to which he contributed with a new chapter for the Portuguese translation of Have your Say!

He is presently a policy advisor for the Deputy Mayor of Social Rights in the Lisbon City Council, contributing to the Youth, Participation and Human Rights policies, while pursuing a PhD in “Democracy in the XXIst Century” in the University of Coimbra (CES). He also coordinates the SOMOS Programme since 2015.

  Articles:

• SOMOS Lisbon Programme for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (Issue 25)