Erasmus+ Mobility of Youth Workers
Aim
The aim of this training is to engage in, support and facilitate accelerated learning and collaboration among youth workers and youth leaders of the numerous European regenerative initiatives partnering in this project.
Funding
This course is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ framework.
We are deeply grateful for this and we thank the Greek National agency for their great support and their work.
Impact
capacity building, connecting people, improve skills of all involved, bring precious knowledge to our regioin and influence to regional and national surrounding of all involved participants and partner organisations
For who this is
- For youth workers from Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, Croatia, Spain and Belgium, who are starting or running an organization
- No age limit
About the trainers
Alexandros Filippidis
Facilitator | Co-founder of A-Fthonia NGO & SEYN
Alexandros Filippidis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering as well as an MSc on Energy Planning and Management in both Greece and Denmark. Both his professional and personal life has been defined by sustainability in practice. Alex is Co-founder of Sustainable Energy Youth Network, an international NGO promoting youth empowerment through energy workshops and academies; Afthonia NGO, a nonprofit organisation focusing on all aspects of sustainability; and Precious Plastic Greece, working on constructing opensource machines for plastic recycling and educational modules. Alex is also an active member of Iliosporoi Network. He has developed and collaborated in several agroforestry related initiatives, and has organised and led tens of workshops over the span of 10 years mainly on sustainable energy topics, including energy cooperatives and crowdfunding in Greece, Spain, Croatia and Thailand. Alex has extensive experience in natural building, and has a passion for farming and training dogs.
Laurane Coornaert
Architect | Founder of Degre47 | Facilitator
After studying architecture in Brussels and Madrid, Laurane pursued a complementary Master’s degree in Environmental management and worked as an advisor on the energetic performance of buildings. She later deepened her practice and theory of sustainable and social architecture working in an architecture office in Portugal. There she began collaborating with Critical Concrete, an emerging educational and social initiative that stands outside the regular dynamics of real estate development and promotes new mechanisms to rehabilitate social housing, and improve public and cultural spaces shared by low-income communities. After her return to Belgium, she founded Degre47 working to help inhabitants take part in their construction; being a technical referent in the organization of workshops; helping the planning of the construction site with the inhabitants; facilitating participatory design; teaching the correct use of tools; participation on several social projects for homelesses, immigrants and social housing in Brussels.
Important Info for Participants
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