Advisory Boards

European Advisory Board

Caridad Alarcón Sanchéz, Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions Steering Committee; Lifelong Learning Platform - European Civil Society for Education.
Rossella Benedetti, Vice-President - European Trade Union Confederation Women's Committee; Policy advisor - Unione Italiana del Lavoro International Department.
Ekaterina Efimenko, Coordinator Working Conditions, Equality and Environment - European Trade Union Committee for Education (CSEE).
Reka Heszterényi, student - European University Institute; consultant to the Council of Europe Youth Centre.
Maria Magdalena Isac, Centre for Political Science Research KU Leuven.
Sarah Keating, Head of Division of Formal and Non-Formal Education - Council of Europe.
Ana Perona-Fjeldstad, Executive Director - European Wergeland Centre.
Hristina Petkova, Equality coordinator - European Commission DG Education, Youth, Sports and Culture.
Reka Safrany, President - European Womens' Lobby; Chair - Hungarian Women’s Lobby.
Louisa Slavkova, Co-founder & Managing partner at THE CIVICS Innovation Hub.
Anu Toots, Professor of comparative public policy - Tallinn University.

Pedagogische Begeleidingsdienst GO! (Pedagogical Counselling Service of the Official education of the Flemish community)
Pedagogische Begeleidingsdienst KOV (Catholic Education; Flanders largest educational umbrella organization)
ACOD -Onderwijs (Socialist Education Union)
Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel (Student Union)
OVSG Public Education Local (organizing body for pedagogical guidance for urban and municipal education)
ACV-Onderwijs (Study service Christian Union)
POV Public Education Provincial (umbrella organization of the provincial schools and centres in Flanders)
VSOA Onderwijs (Liberal Education Union)
Joke Matthieu (Academic Citizenship education)
Kinderrechtencommissariaat Vlaanderen (Parliamentary Commissioner for Children's rights)
Departement onderwijs (Ministry of Education)

Tomas Pavlas, Open Society, Manager of the Promotion of Gender Equality Program.
Marketa Stepanova, Expert from the Gender Studies organization.
Michaela Dvorakova, Deputy head of the Department of Civic Education and Philosophy at the Faculty of Education, Charles University.
Petr Pavlik, Director of Institute of Masters Studies and Deputy Chair of the Department of Gender Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.
Veronika Fajmanova, Head of Cross-cutting Agendas Unit (Department of Gender Equality), Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.
Petr Chalus, Coordinator, European Educational Networks.

Matteo Bergamini MBE, Founder and CEO - Shout Out UK and lead on All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) on political literacy.
Michelle Codrington-Rogers, Teacher, The NASUW, The Teacher’s Union President.
Hans Svennevig, Lecturer in Citizenship Education and Subject Leader -Citizenship in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Faculty of Education and Society, University College London.
David Kerr, Head of Initial Teacher Training (ITT): Partnership and Engagement at University of Reading.
James Weinberg, Lecturer in Political Behaviour at the University of Sheffield, Lead on the expert group for All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) on political literacy.
Zoe Baker, Head of Education and Professional Development at Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT).
Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE, Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy at Durham University, advisor to All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) on Oracy and political literacy.
Lee Jerome, Associate Professor of Education at Middlesex University and Research Consultant at Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT)
Fred Grindrod, Principal Official The NASUW, The Teacher’s Union on Policy, Campaigns and Communication, and Councillor for Bournville & Cotteridge Ward.
Aisling Munnelly, Senior teacher training officer at the Education and Engagement Team for the UK Houses of Parliament
Ciya Vyas, Senior teacher training officer at the Education and Engagement Team for the UK Houses of Parliament

Arila Feurich, VereinT Zukunft Bilden e.V.
Dr. Helle Becker, Transfer für Bildung e.V.
Henning Knippelmeyer, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.
Helmolt Rademacher, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demokratiepädagogik e.V. (Landesverband Hessen der DeGeDe)
Julia Davis, Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie e.V.
Katja Kinder, Regionale Arbeitsstellen für Bildung, Integration und Demokratie e.V. - RAA Berlin. English: Regional Centre for Education, Integration and Democracy - RAA Berlin
Lea Gronenberg, dpart - Forschung für politische Partizipation
Margret Rasfeld, Initiative Schule im Aufbruch
Neele Eilers, dpart - Forschung für politische Partizipation
Nikola Poitzmann, Hessisches Kultusministerium (Projekt Gewaltprävention und Demokratielernen)
Peggy Eckert, Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung Sachsen
Sophia La Mela, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. English: Federal Agency for Civic Education