Achim Riemann is a social education worker. He founded an environmental club at the age of ten and was a founding member of the youth environmental organisation JANUN at 18. He coordinates local and international projects at JANUN. He organises international youth exchanges and training courses on education for sustainable development, as well as on how to organise international youth exchanges.

I am a Civic Educator with the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the Founder & CEO of ChildConnect Ghana, an NGO dedicated to driving sustainable community development. Through ChildConnect Ghana, I lead programs that promote Zero Hunger, Quality Education, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Good Health & Well-being, and Civic Education. I am deeply committed to empowering communities, fostering civic responsibility, and creating lasting impact for better living.

Empower working people (specifically women and migrants) to raise consciousness and change through education and  organizing.

Social responsibility: (a) Managing the Kulturenwerkstatt in Bremen, (b) developing a kindergarten  (Kukutana) with African flair in Bremen.
Self-Diversity: Training to acquire and develop the personal abilities to engage with differences, diversity, and change.

Passionate professional in international cooperation, project management and environmental and intercultural education transformation. Strong focus on social justice, human rights, Rights of Nature and ecological integrity. Strengthening civil society organizations, especially indigenous communities and their cultures, forests and territories is important to me in the face of increasing resource conflicts.

Claudia Gimena Roa has worked on education for community conservation in Colombia, linked with food sovereignty, biodiversity and energy transition, and has promoted the philosophy of Buen Vivir and the defense of La Pachamama in Latin America, for more than 20 years. She is a member of Fundaexpresion and the Colectivo de Reservas Campesinas y Comunitarias de Santander. Claudia Gimena has completed university studies in Colombia, Canada and the United Kingdom and has supported the need for popular education at national and international levels; she has also published several books and essays on literary issues related to women, youth and communities of the Andean and Amazon rainforests.

I work on global education, migration, civic engagement, and environmental protection, focusing on empowering marginalized communities through participatory methods and storytelling. I emphasize leadership in challenging times and apply project management to bridge activism, education, and intercultural dialogue for inclusive and sustainable change.

Eric Kwame Bentum is CEO of the Akwaaba Humanitarian Foundation in Ghana. The core mandates are humanitarian services "i.e." education, empowerment, poverty reduction and health. Our mission and vision cut across different projects which includes supporting needy but brilliant students, girl child education, supporting orphans, advocacy for gender equality. climate justice etc.

I work as an educator at VNB with a focus on Education for Sustainable Development and Transformative Global Learning. Together with colleagues and partner organizations, I develop and implement educational projects, training courses, workshops, and conferences. I coordinate the Global Learning Network in Bremen and Lower Saxony, and together with Sarah Laustroer the international Learn2Change Network with partners from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Gaia Sanvicente Traverso is Maia's mother since 2015, a teacher, performer, researcher, and producer. She has over 20 years of experience in extracurricular education. She holds a degree in Pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2012 and completed her master's degree in 2023 with research in the field of languages, subjectivities, and teacher training. Since 2005, she has developed educational and artistic projects for children in the areas of popular culture, music, art, circus, theater, literature, and storytelling. In recent years, she has dedicated herself to the executive production of cultural projects, particularly initiatives funded by public notices, accumulating experience in artistic and pedagogical projects aimed at children.

Geofrey Nsubuga is a dedicated Child Protection and Advocacy Specialist with over 15 years of experience advancing rights-based programming in Uganda and beyond. He has led high-impact interventions to eliminate child labour, Gender based violence, violence against children,  promote safe education, and empower civil society. He is recognized for his expertise in policy advocacy, coalition-building, and evidence-based programming, with extensive engagement in global and regional networks. Currently completing a Master’s in Institutional Management and Leadership, Geofrey continues to champion inclusive, sustainable solutions for children and young women’s rights.

I am the CEO and founder of Young and Lonely Foudation in Ghana. I am committed to empowering women, children, and vulnerable societies. With an extensive experience in education, health, advocacy, and sustainable development, both in Ghana and international, I have, through my charity school initiative, driven impactful change that align with social cohesion and development. I am passionate about social justice and capacity building, I mentor future leaders while championing human rights and proud member of Learn2Change Network.

With a scientific background and a university degree in Medical Biology, I have over 12 years' experience in public health, where I have been able to combine my technical skills and knowledge with the skills I have acquired through my involvement in civil society since 2006, in management, coordination, project design, fundraising, advocacy and field work. My experience with the UNDP for 4 years, as national coordinator for the joint UNDP-AU project on the AU treaties, enabled me to enrich and broaden my knowledge of the African dimension, the African context and the specific features of the continent. This is what I have been doing since 2013 through the young pan-African initiative that I created: ‘Model African Union’. I know how to encourage and support civil society organisations and other stakeholders to build national coalitions, and I also have skills in mobilising youth-led networks

Sustainable business at eye-level: Start-ups support from soil to fork (See website for services).
Social responsibility: (a) Managing the Kulturenwerkstatt in Bremen, (b) developing a kindergarten  (Kukutana) with African flair in Bremen.
Self-Diversity: Training to acquire and develop the personal abilities to engage with differences, diversity, and change.

Sustainable business at eye-level: Start-ups support from soil to fork (See website for services).
Social responsibility: (a) Managing the Kulturenwerkstatt in Bremen, (b) developing a kindergarten  (Kukutana) with African flair in Bremen.
Self-Diversity: Training to acquire and develop the personal abilities to engage with differences, diversity, and change.

Jekapu Dishani,  is an environmental and climate justice advocate. He is passionate about climate action, renewable energy and  Empowering youth and rural communities  to drive sustainable  development. He has  more than 8 years experience  in community work, having worked on different projects to build resilience for vulnerable communities across Malawi and is  currently serving as programs manager  at  YSD Malawi.

I seek respect for the rights of nature, as well as those of a living being, for the dignity of people, and for economic empowerment in one of the most unequal countries in the world. School is a broad learning space that can be a hub for local development and defense of the Ixofill mogen (biodiversity), all while recovering the native language, which contains the spirituality and precise concepts needed to engage with Mother Earth and find healing.

Jospeh is Environmental scientist and advocate for climate justice and Just Transition. With over 15 years of experience in climate, agriculture and sustainable community development work, he has worked with diverse organizations such as Learn to Change Network, African Just Transition Network, JANUN e.V (Germany), and Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation (Germany). He was honored with the 2022 PACEY PEACE AWARD for his impact in promoting Just Transition and community resilience. Joseph is part of the global Learn2Change coordinating team.

I love to network and exchange about global learning and the way how we create learning processes that really reach out the people and make a difference. A special focus is on decolonial and pluriverse perspectives. With my association we are advocating for global justice and promoting awareness of global interrelationships especially in Lower Saxony

As a Psychosocial & Solution-Focused Counselor as well as an Intercultural Trainer, I focus on mental health, resilience and diversity with a heart for anti-discrimination. Based in Uganda and connected online to Germany, I support personal growth, teambuilding and social development. Through creative methods like writing and poetry, I open spaces for reflection, connection and transformation

1998-2015 PTPI: International coordinator for NGO initiatives. From 2015 member of ASA Programme; capacity building and engagement on development policy for young people who want to understand global contexts. Special tasks are partner contacts and participants support. For existing and new project partners, I support project development and implementation within our scholarship programme.

I am a Social and Behavior Change Communication Specialist with over 12 years of experience in child, youth and organizational development. Global learning is central to my work. I am passionate about fostering sustainable and adaptive solutions that consider diverse cultural perspectives, gender justice, and mental well-being. Through my work, I seek to support communities in navigating the challenges of globalization, while promoting resilience, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.

Louis Zulu is a teacher by profession with long expérience in both formal and informal education in Blantyre. He is currently in education administration in a public school but continues to cooperate with local and international partners in the project Aware and Fair. The main aim is to promote SDGs among school going youths in Malawi. I am also currently animating an ASA project on Fair Trade for a.second year running back to back..

Lydia is the executive director and founder of Flying Girls Malawi,a local organization working to empower youths, especially girls in education and leadership Lydia is also an actress who got featured in an educational/online international game and stared as Salma, (please add more details about the project Our voices our planet) Everything that involves young people,Art, menstrual health and hygiene, environmental legislation and more, count me in!

Many years of experience in international educational cooperation with and for universities, schools and civil society organisations in Brazil, Portugal and Germany. Design, coordination and teaching of international projects, seminars, language courses, staff workshops and conferences especially on Global Learning/Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education. Development and implementation of strategies and measures e.g. for the internationalisation of curricula, transcultural competence building, mobility increasement, welcome culture and language policy.

McArthur Matukuta is the founder of SPT and has been instrumental in ensuring for its growth over the past 26 years. He originally trained in Clinical Medicine before deciding to peruse his love of theatre. Off stage McArthur has worked extensively in theatre management and is the Festival Coordinator of the Blantyre Arts Festival, the Director of Easter Theatre Festival as well as the Executive Director of Solomonic Peacocks Theatre. His ambition is to help establish the creative arts as a business in Malawi to help develop the industry as a realistic career path for both budding and established artists. He is also an expert in theatre for development work in Malawi and is regularly consulted nationally and internationally on the subject.

McArthur Matukuta is experienced in designing and implementation of social and behavior change communication interventions across a wide range of social and development issues. Development of our materials follows a rigorous formative research process which is participatory and ensures that we address barriers emerging from the target audience. McArthur Matukuta has expertise in development and production of mass community mobilization which includes theatre for development and participatory drama activities, advocacy, training in theatre for development as social and behavior change communication.

Nomatlou Mahlangu is a South African motivational speaker, educator, and cultural facilitator. She empowers youth through arts, heritage preservation, social cohesion, and international exchange projects. With multiple national awards, she fosters leadership, entrepreneurship, and creativity while promoting African culture and education globally.

Social responsibility: (a) Managing the Kulturenwerkstatt in Bremen, (b) developing a kindergarten  (Kukutana) with African flair in Bremen.
Self-Diversity: Training to acquire and develop the personal abilities to engage with differences, diversity, and change.

As an Adivasi (Indigenous from India) cultural documentarian and practitioner, my research, writing, and advocacy engagements cover Adivasi voice and agency across global issues of injustice and inequalities, through adivaani (first voices), the archiving and publishing outfit I founded in 2012. I am also a PhD Candidate, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

As Eesti People to People president, I wrote and manage different projects in Estonia and on the European level, provide training for adult learners, youth workers and young people.  The main topics of interest are global education, media and digital literacy, inclusion, gender equality. Since 1999 I am national coordinator for the Global Education Week of the North-South Center of the Council of Europe and Global Media Monitoring Project

Aware and fair school project is a non funded project which started in 2012 out of city twinning between Hannover in Germany and Blantyre Malawi. It is coordinated by Silvia Hesse in Germany and Louis Zulu in Malawi. I work hand in hand with Louis in this project. This project is one area of coperation between the Global north and Global south. We work with school going children in Blantyre City in raising awareness and promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We focus on these SDGs because they directly affect our target group. Since our members are children, we use various methods which are child friendly. We use they're, songs, dances, poems, excursions, seminars, debate, quiz, etc.

Since 2015, as the founder of Umbaja e.V., I have worked with unwavering civic courage to build bridges between refugees, the diaspora, and German society. I am committed to humanitarian aid, democracy, economic participation, and empowerment—both locally and internationally—while giving the “Voices of Sudan” a strong and audible platform.

Education, empowerment and cooperation in (global) networks for me are important engines for a change to a socially just and ecologically sound world. Therefore I worked in different projects with youth, young adults and multipliers in the range of global and political education in the last years. Together with Gabi Janecki, I am coordinating the Learn2Change network.

Mainstreaming cultural education with development initiatives is my focus. To achieve this, I implemented many projects where I engaged with youth, women, grassroot artisans, and diverse young cultural workers. I have actively joined, conducted, and presented at international and national workshops and seminars. I have dedicated 30 years as Executive Director of BITA and explored ways to integrate culture and development for meaningful impact.

I am a passionate explorer and host of transformative learning spaces, with a focus on decolonial and relational unlearning - involving head, body, heart, hands and lands.

Being an advocate of radical system change in formal education, I am currently working at university level on Education for Sustainable Development as a cross cutting issue in teacher training, with a Whole-School-Approach.

I am at the same time a freelance trainer, facilitator, consultant and occasional author and film maker on the quests mentioned above.

With a 10 year long professional background in (international) NGO networks in the field of global education I am a founding member of Learn2Change.

Ending with the most important: father and student of two amazing little teachers.