PROJECT MANAGEMENT: EVANGELIA NIKOLAOU

Evangelia Nikolaou will have the main coordination of the program and she is the one that will have in mind the whole procedure with partners' organisations, she is going to keep a timetable of different activities throughout the implementation of the project. She will also be one of the trainers. 

She 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 over than 10 Erasmus Plus Projects. As a project manager, assistant project manager, or Trainer, she is involved in over than 10 projects being implemented within the years 2021-2023. 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.

GENERAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT: 
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: ERMA GEORGIOU

Erma Georgiou, 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 Alliance Institute and has attended various seminars on theatrical techniques such as physical theatre, voice lessons e.t.c.But,she is 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. At the moment,she is working as a school assistant empowering students with social and educational difficulties,she is also teaching drama lessons to kids and adults in the afternoons and empowering through drama activities people with mental health needs in the psychiatric ward of the Limassol hospital.She has a great passion in the development of individuals as well as groups, and this is the reason that she decided to collaborate and become a trainer at the NGO Acpelia. Last year,she also been trainer in 2 projects of Acpelia in Cyprus, (Mental Health under Crisis Period and SICALS-Self-Improvement and Coaching as Life Skill) and this year is going to be trainer in another three projects (Innovation through Thinking out of the Box,Re-Connect with Nature protecting the Environment and Improvement of Mental health after a lock down).She also loves to travel,to meet new people and learn new things.