Vladislav Petkov is a coordinator, expert and activist on issues of social justice in Bulgaria, particularly in the sphere of anti-racism, gender equality and LGBTI rights. He holds master’s degrees in Law and Cultural Anthropology, and is currently doing a PhD on cultural anthropology at Sofia University with his research focused on cultural populism. He was trained as a trainer on human rights education by the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sports back in 2009 and since then has planned and facilitated numerous learning processes on local, national and international level on topics, related to human rights. He has worked on the topic of anti-racism and minority empowerment in Bulgaria, particularly in relation to the Roma community. Chocolate-lover and Beyonce fan.

Coming from the faculty of Arts of Ljubljana where she studied Spanish and French philology, from the moment she entered the classroom for the first time she became a strong defender of the principles of non-formal education.

 Tea Stanic has been active in the area of education for Gender Equality and Human Rights for the past 10 years. Currently working as manager of European projects at the Association Cazalla Intercultural in Spain.

She started exploring the topic of Gender and Gender Based Violence (GBV) in 2008 when involved in the Daphne III Program, coordinating the project Heartbeat in Lorca and conducting workshops for Young people on GBV in intimate relationships. After that she leaded numerous trainings for facilitators, teachers and trainers on GBV and micro aggressions, leaded conferences and seminars on the topic on the national and international level.

From 2014 specially focused on invisible racism and micro aggressions, exploring the topic of power relations and developing methodology to be used in formal and non-formal educational settings.

A part from that, since 2012 she is actively involved in the training pool of the Spanish National Agency of Erasmus+ Program, leading trainings of the EVS training cycle and TCAs. Moreover, passionate multiplier of the learning to learn competence, global education and graphic facilitation.

Dariusz Grzemny is a youth worker in Poland and a trainer/consultant in educational projects across Europe dealing with anti-discrimination and human rights education.

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 and the Council of Europe where he was an educational advisor. He is a member of the Pool of Trainers in the Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe. He was involved in the development and implementation of the No Hate Speech Movement campaign in the Council of Europe. He is an author of several educational materials on human rights education. He is the editor and co-author of the revised version of „Gender Matters – a Manual on Gender-based Violence Affecting Young People”.

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.

Coming from the faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Pisa (IT), where she studied French and English philology and linguistic. After the University degree, she accomplished the preparation for the Diplomatic career and got passionate by political sciences studies. Recently, she started again to study mostly in the field of Psychology and well-being, getting a diploma as a Professional Coach. 

Since the moment she started teaching Italian in France, she discovered the power of Non-formal Learning approaches and methodology. She was working as a local youth worker since 1993, mainly promoting active participation and a human rights culture. She had the opportunity to be trained in the Advanced Training for Trainers in Europe, promoted by the Youth Department of Council of Europe, improving her competences on human rights and human rights education.

She´s active as a trainer at a national and international level mainly promoting human rights and human rights culture and fighting against racism and all forms of intolerance. She´s member of the pool of trainers of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe and she has the opportunity to work for the Italian National Agency on Youth for initiatives related to social inclusion.

Moreover, she was part of the team translating Compass and Compasito into Italian and she´s an activist of the NO HATE SPEECH movement in Italy.

 Finally, she likes seaside and sailing.