People Involved in the project

Zoe David

Research Engineer – Pedagogical Coordinator of the European project Partibridges, EHESP, Rennes (France).

Master degree in Childhood and Youth : Policies and Care, at EHESP.

With experiences with children and youngsters in various project, Zoé is interested in artistic and intercultural practices in the social field, linked to empowerment and pedagogy. She focused her master degree on participatory action research process and popular/community/public education.

Dadan Kardiana

Partibridges Technical Manager at EHESP and Research Fellow

With many years of experience in managing international projects, Dadan has grown his expertise both on project management and social science research. He has been involved in various European Union and The French National Research Agency funded projects.

In the field of research, Dadan is interested in multiple topics such as migration and health, discrimination and social inequality, trade and economic development.

Pierre Durosoy

Coordinator at Keur Eskemm association – Rennes (France)

Profile :Youth project coordinator for young adults : Laboratoire Artistique Populaire since 2015. Community organizing and youth empowerment through arts.

Project coordinator of SAPASS Erasmus+ project since 2018. Addressing the issue of youth participation within cultural policies. Masters degree in International Cooperation and Solidarity – focused on supporting migrants in Senegal (2014). Masters degree in History and Political Science – specialized in colonialism, post-colonialism and african studies.

Manon Fenard

Coordinator of Popular Artistic Laboratory at Keur Eskemm association – Rennes (France)

After pursuing a degree in socio-cultural management, Manon Fenard has been involved in managing various European projects with specific taget of young people aged 14 to 18. By working with the teenage public, she found that the projects possess its own artistic and cultural colours.

Having lived in Germany and Quebec, she continues to explore her interest in art and pedagogy of youth. Her specialization in this field had led her to conduct the research on artistic projects with young people who have dropped out of school. She defended her doctoral thesis on educational sociology in november 2018.

Before working at Keur Eskemm since September 2019 and leads the Popular Artistic Laboratory, Manon had worked in Seine St-Denis with secondary school students to set up cultural projects in the classroom (especially around contemporary music).

Yoann Boishardy

Volunteer at Keur Eskemm association, Research engineer at Coop Eskemm – Rennes (France)

Project coordinator of TAP Erasmus+ project (November 2017-April 2019). Addressing the issue of the link between work and engagement of young people. Many experiences with young people (Youth Local Project, Youth Camp, etc.) Master degree in Youth Policies.

Hélène Le breton

Co-cordinator of the GPAS Bretagne network (Pedagogy and Social Animation Group), she also teaches social studies at the University of Rennes 1 (France).

Anaïs Massot

Development manager of the GPAS Bretagne network, and in charge of the BAFA training (certificat of aptitude for the functions of animator).

Céline Martin

Voluntary Pedagogical Advisor

Former Partibridges Pedagogical Coordinator

Previous Experiences: Project Engineer – Horizon 2020 Partispace research project. Youth professional and social worker since 2005 in Rennes. Cultural programmer in the direction of the young audiences between 1999 and 2003. Student in the Masters degree « Youth : policies and care » at the French School of Public Health in Rennes (2013-2015). Research topic : “the Youth Guarantee Experimentation in Rennes”.

Alexandre Pais

Reader, Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Alexandre Pais reads, writes and teaches about all aspects of educational research amenable to philosophical investigation.

Dr Harriet Rowley

Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Research/teaching in youth, arts, community, education practice and policy. Particular expertise in participatory action research, co-production and ethnography.

Named researcher on PARTISPACE, Horizon 2020

Erasmus+ worldwide exchange recipient – Flinders University, Adelaide 2018.

Marta da Costa

PhD student and tutor in Education Studies, at Manchester Metropolitan University

Tutor in Education Studies, since September 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University

Tutor in Education Studies, January 2017 – August 2017, Liverpool Hope University

Research Assistant, May 2016 – August 2017, in the project ‘Ready to Teach Global Citizenship?’, Manchester Metropolitan University

Teaching Assistant, September 2014 – April 2016, Priestnall School

Play worker, May 2013 – September 2014, More Play More Often

PGC Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University, 2019

MA in Education Studies, awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015

BSc Sport Sciences, awarded by the University of Lisbon, 2013.

Evan Wilson

Technical Officer (Digital Media Team, MMU) – Partibridges UK Technician

Technical Officer within the Digital Media Team at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in audio, video and radio. With a background in music production & performance, music videos, short films, radio, camera operation, photography and audio/video post-production.

I am the technician for the Partibridges MMU team. Tasked with documenting the team’s output – creating videos, promos, photographing events/meetings. Translating technical ideas in to technical realities.

Elizabeth Harding

Youth Worker  Erasmus + project Partibridges at Youth Focus NW 

Youth worker for many years, working in the field of youth voice, empowerment and engagement. Interested in the voice of young people in the design and delivery of policy and services. Experience of running Erasmus+ KA+ Strategic Dialogue projects. Sits on the National Agency Erasmus+ Sector Consultative Group.

Stuart Dunne

Incoming Chief Executive Officer Youth Focus North West, England

Full time Youth and Community Worker since 1998

Experience of working in local, regional and national NGOs

Experience of local government

Specialist area, young people’s participation.

Education x 2 Masters Degrees

First: Master of Arts (MA)– Youth and Community Education (MMU-England) – Young people and Participation Action Research techniques.

Second: Masters of Philosophy (MPHIL) – Education (University of Manchester) – The construction of identity through citizenship education.

Demet Lüküslü

Prof.Dr., Yeditepe University Sociology Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Chair of the Sociology Department at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Horizon 2020 PARTISPACE project researcher.

Banu Koçer Reisman

Assistant Professor  – Sociology Department at Yeditepe University, Istanbul (Turkey)

Faculty member at Yeditepe University since 2010

Teaching courses on: Environmental Sociology, Rural Sociology, Sociology of Education, Classical Sociological Theory, Field Study, and Social Awareness.

Duygu Demiray

Departmental Assistant– Sociology Department at Yeditepe University, Istanbul (Turkey)
PhD candidate in the department of Mathematics at Yeditepe University , Istanbul (Turkey)
Research area : Reliability Theory, Mathematical Statistics.
B.Ed&M.Ed (Integrated Bachelor and Master of Education), Secondary School Mathematics Education (Faculty of Education), Yeditepe University , Istanbul (Turkey), 2012.
Member of organizing committee, 27th National Mathematics Symposium of the Turkish Mathematical Society, 26 August 2014 – 29 August 2014, Istanbul (Turkey)

Dr. Dilara Ünüvar Ünlüoğlu

Dilara Ünüvar Ünlüoğlu holds her bachelor’s degree in the Department of International Relations and a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Labor Economics. Her focus is gender studies as an academic at Eskişehir Technical University, Management and Organization Department, Eskisehir, Turkey. Her areas of interest include women’s studies, gender, inequality in work life, and sociology of work.

Eskisehir Technical University
Vocational School of Transportation
Depart. of Management&Organization
Eskişehir, Turkey”

Esra Karan

Social entrepreneurship coordinator Tepebaşı Municipality Youth Centers Eskişehir (Turkey)

Esra is a sociologist and youth professional working for Tepebasi Municipality.
Prior to her actual mission, she had been involved in various international humanitarian actions such as being a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) trainer in a high school in India.
Her main working fields are social enterprenuership, youth employment and refugee employment.

Büşra DEMİRCİOĞLU

Sociologist and volunteer at Tepebaşı Municipality Youth Centre since 2011.

Busra is volunteer and coordinator on Social responsibility projects dealing with young people, children, woman and urban rights.
She graduated from Anadolu University Sociology depatment in 2009; Sociology Pedagogic Formation in 2016 and she is also a student in international relations department.

Harun Canitez

Team member of the Project Partibridges at Below 25 Association, Eskisehir, Turkey.

Board member of the Below 25 Association since 2016.

Technology and Design teacher.

Graduated from Gazi University Department of Family Economics and Nutrition in 2007.

Umay Bostan

Assistant of the Project Partibridges at Below 25 Association, Eskisehir, Turkey.

Board member of the Below 25 Association.

Been a member of the youth group of the association for 3 years.

Industrial Design student at Anadolu University.

Burak Karakaya

Manager of the Project Partibridges at Below 25 Association, Eskisehir, Turkey.

President and board member of the Below 25 Association.

Psychological counselor.

Graduated from Ankara University Department of Psycological Services in Education.

Yasemin Tumkaya Karakaya

Vice president and board member of the Below 25 Association.

Psycological counselor.

Graduated from Ankara University Department of Educational Programs and Teaching.

Mônica Mesquita

Researcher at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa// MARE Researcher (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre: www.mare-centre.pt/en)

Portuguese Coordinator of the Partibridges Project at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

PhD in Science Education – Socioanthropology of Space

Master in Mathematics Education – Ethnomathematics

Bachelor in Pure Mathematics

Previous projects:

Partibridges Project. Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union – Grant Agreement n°2018- 1-FR01-KA203-048041

SMART FISHING Project. MAR 2020 Operational Programme of Portugal – Inner number nº 16-01-01-FMP-0028

Urban Boundaries Project. National Foundation to the Science and the Technology of the Portugal – PTDC/CPE_CED/119695/2010

DALEST Project. Minerva Programme of the European Union224269-CP-1-2005-CY-MINERVA-M

ModellingSpace Project. European Union – IST2000 25385

Research Topics: Environmental Communitarian Education; Sociology of Environment; Spatial Justice; Boundaries; Human Topology; Participatory Encounters; Sustainability

Lia Vasconcelos

Professor at Faculty at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/ MARE Researcher (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre: www.mare-centre.pt/en)

Member of the Partibridges Project at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

PhD in Environmental Engineering – Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon

Master in Community Planning, University of Rhode Island, USA

Architect – Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon University/ Portugal

Previous projects:

OceanWISE – Reducing EPS marine litter in the North East Atlantic, European Project (2018-2020) (FEDER, EAPA 252/2016) Coordination of Public Participation component.

SMART FISHING Project. MAR 2020 Operational Programme of Portugal – Inner number nº 16-01-01-FMP-0028

UrbanWINS – Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies Research and Innovation European Project, Program Horizon 2020 (WASTE-6b-2015) Coordination of Public Participation component.

Research Topics: Governance, Collaborative Decision-making, Participatory Processes, Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, Empowerment, Use of Information/Knowledge, Sustainability

Daniel Oliveira

Master’s student in Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Technician of the Erasmus + project Partibridges at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

Master and Bachelor in Geography

Research Topics: Environmental Communitarian Education; Spatial Planning; Spatial Justice; Qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Local Ecological Knowledge; Geographic Information System (GIS) and Participatory Mapping in Community.

Felipe Alvarado

PhD Student in Environment and Sustainability at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Technician of the Erasmus + project Partibridges at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

Research Topics: Biodiversity; Herpetology; Education; Ecological Restauration; Statistical Analysis; Geographic Information System; Participatory Biodiversity Monitoring; Urban Biodiversity; Social Participation Processes.

(In memoriam) Lídio Galinho

Former President/Founder of the Association Ala-Ala

Ala-Ala Coordinator of the Erasmus + project Partibridges at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

Ricardo Pinto

Ala-Ala member

Youth Fishermen of the Erasmus + project Partibridges at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

Patricia Gonçalves

Secretary of Ala Ala

Youth Fisherwoman of the Erasmus + project Partibridges at Ocean Literacy Observatory – MARE Centre/ Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.