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PRESENTATION OF FACILITATORS

Denis Morel

Coming from Bretagne, France.

I work for Luciole NGO which aims:

to promote active participation of inhabitants in social life, particularly of young adults through activating their sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
to promote intercultural and human rights education.

We act mainly through coaching / training / project designing. Regarding our target groups, we try to work with all actors of education: children, young people, teachers and trainers, teachers of teachers and trainers of trainers, youth workers, civil society, local authorities etc. We also try to build / consolidate bridges between those different actors.

Then we also work on different levels: local, regional, national and European level. We are also working with European institutions like Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe and the network of National Agencies of the Erasmus + programme.

Since 10 years, I'm also teacher at the University of Social Work of Rennes, teaching intercultural education and coaching students doing their internship abroad. I'm part also of the team which create a new university degree on "Non formal education and social transformation".

Jo Claeys

Born in Belgium and meanwhile living and working in Portugal.

I am currently coordinating ‘Produções Fixe’, a small social company we started in a little rural village in the centre of Portugal. Produções Fixe (Cool Productions) is a company with social responsibility at its heart. We target the whole community of this small rural village of 450 inhabitants, where all the stakeholders – inhabitants, companies, NGOs, and local authority are active elements.

We aim for:

Creation of local employability by re-inventing economy
Re-shaping local economy towards a self-sustainable model based on local resources and a permanent win-win view on long term
To work on entrepreneurship of young and elder people, using Non Formal Education as main tool.
Becoming an example of ‘good practice’ by hosting international events in the village, having a full involvement of the whole community and a real impact on local level.

As a follow up of this community project, we are currently building an ‘educational board game factory’ at mini scale, (a Key Action 2 project), which aims to:

Design, develop and produce educational tools based upon board game techniques, this by using almost exclusively local resources.
Promote and work on recognition of Non Formal Education and Life Long Learning as one of the answers to the current financial crisis.
Becomes self-sustainable and creates direct and indirect local employability.

Besides this, I work very often for a variety of European institutions, NGOs and networks, delivering consultancy, training, etc.; but always based upon ‘If you talk the talk, you walk the walk’.

I look especially forward to this Partnership Building Activity, once it covers many different Educational approaches, which in my view only reinforce each other and complement and a great opportunity to embrace ‘education’ together and use each other’s strengths.