Florence I. J. Franks

Project Manager

Florence is Italian. She studied law at the University of Florence. She lives and works in Paris as assistant director in a leisure centre for children.

She has been an AEGEE-addicted since 2008 and has participated at several European events within and outside AEGEE.
Currently, she is involved also in other international project teams.

Of course she loves travelling, explore, and meeting cool people!!! She is fond of art, cinema, photography and vintage clothes!

She likes people that “read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.”

She believes in the AEGEE motto: “We Make Europe Happen!”, for this reason she is an enthusiastic volunteer, addicted to trainings and projects!!!!

Youth work has enriched her life in an extraordinary way. She believes Europe is what we make out of it, and for sure she is here to give her contribution! Flo hopes to bring new ideas to the development of the project and make it a valuable resource for all people interested.

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Employment Action Day Manager

Nini Chanturia is 21 years old. Currently she is a Vice-President of AEGEE-Tbilisi. She graduated from the University in July 2010. Faculty of: Finance, banking, Insurance, and her secondary faculty: Journalism. She worked in a newspaper and magazine. For this moment she does an intern in a Bank. Besides this, she is actively involved in NGO sector. Nini is a team leader of NGO- “Women’s Democracy Network” and coordinator of Euroforum network in Georgia. She was a participant of many simulations, like: “General Assembly” of NATO, UN and etc. That was an official part of her life.

Nini LOVEs very much to dance. She was a soloist of the International dancing ensemble, during 12 years. Therefore, Nini is crazy about concerts, festivals and tours. Also she plays the piano. As you already understand Nini loves Art!!! Parallel with school Nini has graduated 7 years of Ballet and piano classes in the Art gymnasium. Also, she likes sport- most of all swimming! One more thing, as everyone in AEGEE, Nini loves to travel

Human Resources manager

Magdalena Kortas, born in Poland with Polish-Ukrainian origin and strong sense of European identity.

A student of International Economics with specialization in Management at University of Gdańsk. She loves to travel, meet new people and is interested in international relations, human development and intercultural communication.

As a member of AEGEE since 2012, she has taken part in many international conferences and events. On a local level she was also a board member and working group coordinator. She knows three languages: Polish, English and Spanish. Now she works for European Personnel Selection Office as a Career Ambassador and promotes opportunities and career paths in EU institutions.

Maryia Anishchankava

ESE Las-Palmas officer

Maryia was born in Minsk, Belarus, where she got her first higher education in Intercultural Communications and Foreign Languages.
In 2009 she moved to Italy where she obtained her 2nd degree in International Commerce at the University of Verona.
In 2011 she won a scholarship and passed a semester at the University of Richmond, VA, USA, where while being an exchange student she worked as a tutor of Russian and Italian.
In 2013 together with a group of dedicated Belarusians Maryia co-founded an NGO – Global Belarusian Leaders (http://belarusianleaders.org/) which aims to promote Belarus and unite Belarusians all around the world.

In this same year her AEGEEan experience started. Together with Larisa Smajlagic (current president of AEGEE-Verona) Maryia aimed to restore AEGEE-Verona which now counts of 23 members.
Maryia is vice-presindent of AEGEE-Verona and now actively dedicates her time to promotion and development on the Antennae. She participates in Hang-outs, local meetings and European conferences.

PR Manager

Ania is an active, driven and ambitious person characterised by a truly cross disciplinary and global attitude who is eager to be exposed to different cultures and aims to have a truly international experience.

Ania graduated from MA in Development Studies, Economic Integration and Institutions from Valencia University. This course triggered and developed her interest in global issues such as active participation, youth unemployment, governance, entrepreneurship. Recently Now Ania started a PhD in economic development at Northumbria University where she investigates the entrepreneurial governance and mobilization of private Interests in the pursuit of public goals.

Ania has a profound knowledge and understanding of EU youth and inclusion policies that has been attained via her participation in various international projects and trainings that were aimed at promoting the inclusive youth policy, and democratic participation of youth in society, quality internships, non-formal education and youth entrepreneurship. Ania has been invited to take part in the opening panel at the European Youth Event 2014 in Strasbourg, Let’s build Europe together-How can ideas today become jobs tomorrow? which truly changed her life.

Apart from that Ania is an anti-corruption activist who fights for equality, transparency and accountability. She is keen on sports and writes about football for an online magazine which shows football from female perspective.

As far as the youth unEmployment project is concerned Ania will be taking care of the PR aspects, helping to develop PR strategies and initiatives that improve public perception of project and manage the social media presence of the project.

Content manager

Mathieu has been a member of AEGEE-Brussels for 2 years and is now President of his local. He too part in the January meeting of the Youth Employment Project team, where the new objectives of the project were prepared before being presented at Agora Patra. Besides running the local and coordinating the board, he was very involved in the Y-Vote 2014 campaign and organized the closing convention of the project in Brussels together with AEGEE-Europe and the Y-Vote core team.

Mathieu achieved his Masters of European studies last August before starting a traineeship at the European Commission (DG Employment) and worked specifically the Youth Guarantee, the Quality Framework on Traineeships, and the less well-known European Alliance for Apprenticeships. After experiencing for a few months what he has worked on at the Commission (unemployment!), he is coordinator for a Belgian NGO sending and hosting volunteers in international projects.

Mathieu truely believes in non-formal education ways to learn, to gain confidence and trade off the beaten track left by higher education. He considers himself and most of active young leaders he met as learners on the ground who have developed their skills and identity through their own involvement instead of school benches.

ESE Manager

Francesca is finishing her master degree in Statistics at the University of Padova (Italy).
She did an Erasmus and an internship in Leuven (BE), won an Erasmus Placement in Lyon and now she’s an intern in a social business dealing with Microcredits all around Italy. She values a lot self development so she did many youth in action projects and european trainings such as Entrepreunership European School 2012 and Leadership Summer School in Sofia 2013.

She started her AEGEE career at 18 before starting either university, with a Summer University, but became active in 2011 when she was elected president of her local, AEGEE-Padova. She didn’t stop only to the local level. Infact she took some charges in european projects too for example in the Identity Team who updated AEGEE vision and mission. In Agora Zaragoza she was elected Project Manager of SUCT 2013-2014 and in 2014 she took the charge of Project Manager of the third edition of Entrepreunership European School 2015.

She loves innovations, travelling and social business. She think that with Microcredits the rate of unemplyment people can definitely change so she’s working hard to make it works!

Fund Raising manager

Magda comes from Poland, Wrocław where she studied Management at University of Technology. During last five years her hobby – volunteering, became a serious part in her life.

At first, Magda started her journalist career in academic radio, where she was a host of “Start Up!” broadcast. Youth enterprising, startups, career building and european projects were the following topics of her programme.

In the meanwhile, she felt in love in AEGEE by participation in a lot of AEGEE events or organizing some on local level. For a while she was looking for her place in this association. Magda wants to put together gained experience and use it somehow in a good way. Youth UnEmployment Project is definitely the appropriate place to use all her skill and energy.

IT Responsible

George Dimitrakopoulos was born on 6th May 1986 in Patra, Greece. He is now PhD student at Electrical and Computer Engineering department of University of Patra, from which he graduated in July 2010.

George really likes books, films and theatre, computer programming, good food and of course travelling, especially by train. That’s why he joined AEGEE, three years ago, and since then he has attended and organized as well many events and currently is in the Advisory Board of AEGEE-Patra and Speaker of the Information Technology Committee.

Youth UnEmployment Project caught his interest, because it deals with a major problem which concerns most people in his age.

PR Officer 

Anna comes from Aleksandrupolis ,Greece and is 19 years old. She studies Finance and Accounting at University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, and she really likes it .

Clearly she is an obsessive multitasker, always wanting to do more, even when there’s no time. She speaks fluently 4 languages (now deciding the 5th to learn) and loves debating, volunteering and travelling among others. A strong advocate of urban cycling, she has always admired the bicycle culture of Denmark and the Netherlands .

Currently, she just returned from a summer course in the University of Aarhus and is the proud Speakers Manager of TEDxUniversityofMacedonia.

Since she discovered AEGEE she tries to attend and organize as many events as possible. What she loves most about the organization is addresses serious youth problems, like unemployment, and tries to tackle them, but at the same time has a really fun side (who doesn’t like to meet people and discuss?).

She joined the group because she wanted to be active in a European Level and thinks that unemployment is the number one issue for young people today.