About Summer School for Democracy\u00a0<\/a>| Highlights<\/a> | History<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Participation\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0Trainers<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Guests<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0About us\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0Contact<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0 About Summer School for Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n School for Democracy, an Expert Forum program, supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Republic of Moldova and the Embassy of Canada in Bucharest, with the participation of the British Council offers explanations, solutions and instruments to better understand, monitor and contribute to prevent the allocation of public funds on clientelistic criteria, non-transparent procedures regarding public policy and infringement of human rights.\u00a0 Based on the vast past experience of the two organizations and their partners, we invite you to participate alongside 20 other young people, with leadership potential at an non-formal and interactive seminar from which you will learn and exchange experiences alongside experts and activists from NGOs and representatives of public institutions from Romania.<\/p>\n Moreover, you will learn alongside young activists from Romania and Republic of Moldova how to identify and solve community problems, how to write a project and how to implement it. We will provide advisory and financial support. The topics we address with passion and interest during the Summer School for Democracy are: democracy; rule of law and good governance; power networks and anticorruption mechanisms; politics, populism and extremism; human rights and active citizenship.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n Participation<\/strong><\/p>\n The seminary will take place in Simon, Brasov County, between 22 and 28th<\/sup> of August 2014. At the seminary will participate 21 young people, aged between 20 and 30 years old, citizens from Republic of Moldova (15 people) or Romania (6 people). Enrolment submissions can be made up to the 31 of July, 17:00 GMT+3 at the e-mail address office@expertforum.ro<\/a>. In order to participate you need to send us a resume, a cover letter of maximum one page and an essay of two pages about what it means to be a leader and how would you trigger a change in order to improve the situation economically, politically or socially in the community or region you come from. The proposal must include arguments and details regarding the identification of a deficiency, plan of action and potential allies and supporters. The participants selected will be notified until the 3rd<\/sup> of August.<\/p>\n The organizers will provide accomodation and food, as well as transport (car, train 2nd<\/sup> class or bus) limited to 130 RON (round trip). From Bucharest, transport will be provided for all the participants by bus to \u0218imon (Bran) both for arrival and departure, and the costs will be supported by the organizers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trainers<\/strong><\/p>\n Septi Septimius coordinates the Summer School for Democracy since the first edition, in 2011. He works as program manager within Expert Forum and is an expert in administrative reform, good governance and electoral processes. Septimius coordinates programs aimed at developing active citizenship skills and involving citizens in the public decision-making process and he coordinated multiple national electoral monitoring campaigns. Septimius collaborated with some of the most important NGOs in Romania, such as Asociatia Pro Democratia or Societatea Academica din Romania.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNFPA accredited trainer, Alina Constantinescu has five years experience as a good governance project manager at British Council Romania. During the past 10 years, held training course for over 700 youth and professionals, on the topics of active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, ethnic conflicts, freedom of expression, human rights, writing and project management, within several national and international institutions such as British Council, Freedom House, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Agentia Nationala pentru Romi. Luiza has been working for over 4 years in the NGO sector, she is active in several organizations: Asocia\u021bia Pro Democra\u021bia, Centrul Romilor pentru Politici de S\u0103n\u0103tate- Sastipen \u0219i Asocia\u021bia Teach for Romania. Luiza was involved in various good governance projects, monitoring elections, civic education, social inclusion, awareness raising campaigns regarding different topics related to democracy and human rights. She graduated Faculty of Communication and Public Relations within SNSPA.<\/p>\n Doru Toma<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n C\u0103t\u0103lina Vieru<\/strong><\/p>\n Matthew Kelly is a Vice Consul here in Bucharest. This is his second tour; his first was in the ECON section in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Kelly is a POL coned officer. He was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lovech, Bulgaria and grew up in Lynbrook, NY, which is on Long Island and a stone\u2019s throw from the Queens border. He has two brothers and two sisters. He has studied International Business and History at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n Neil Swain is the Senior Trade Commissioner and Commercial Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Romania. He is responsible for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. Prior to arriving in Bucharest in 2013, he was a Deputy Director in the Invest In Canada branch for DFAT-D for two years and a trade commissioner in the Montreal Regional Office for three. Neil has worked as a trade commissioner at the Canadian Embassy in South Korea from 2004 to 2013. He was been with the department for thirteen years and holds a Master\u2019s degree in International Relations from Yonsei University, Seoul. He is married and has two children.<\/p>\n Sorin Ioni\u0163\u0103 is an expert in public administration reform, development and local affairs and the President of Expert Forum. He works as a consultant for the Council of Europe, World bank and UNDP on eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is also Romania\u2019s representative in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), sections Transport-Energy and Evironment-Agriculture and associate lecturer at Maastrict School of Management (MSM). He graduated from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute (IPB); Bucharest University; has a Master from Central European University (CEU), Budapest; former Fulbright fellow at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Laura \u0218tefan is an anti-corruption expert at Expert Forum and constantly works with institutions and international organizations, within UN or EU. She has over 13 years experience in the anti-corruption and decision transparency fields. Laura \u0218tefan areas of expertise are legislative analysis, training of public servants and developing the capacity of NGOs on topics such as conflict of interest, incompatibilities, public policy, access to information and decisional transparency, public acquisitions , policy evaluation, project management and formulating and implementing of public policies related to anti-corruption, organized crime, reforming the justice system, good governance and state reform. Laura was directress within the Ministry of Justice, international consultant on rule of law reform for the European Commission and the\u00a0 Council of Europe. She graduated from the Bucharest School of Law and the Master program of the Cambridge University.<\/p>\n Otilia is an expert in energy and transport infrastructure policies, SOE\u2019s reform, consultant for the World Bank. She worked a year in the private sector financial audit (Andersen, Erns & Young) and almost five years for the World Bank as a consultant. Here she worked on infrastructure and energy projects, but also on analysis, statistics and macroeconomics projections. She contributed on different studies by World Bank regarding municipal infrastructure and public utilities on local level and received special awards (\u201cSpot Awards\u201d, 2003,2006) from World Bank for performance on projects regarding electricity market and municipal services. Subsequently, she studied Public Policies and Fiscal Decentralization\u00a0 at Central-European University(CEU), Budapest.<\/p>\n Cristi Danile\u0163 is a judge, member of the Superior Council of Magistracy and founder of the Society for Justice (SoJust) NGO which aims to reform the System of Justice in Romania. Cristi Danile\u0163 has been Romania\u2019s representative at the Council of Europe in the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, he also worked as an expert within the workgroup for strengthening the integrity of magistrates and is an expert in the areas of independence of justice, judges impartiality, judicial integrity, juvenile justice and alternative means to settle litigations. He graduated Law at the University \u201cAl. I. Cuza\u201d in Iasi, Postuniversitar Specialization in the domain \u201cPenal Sciences\u201d at the Law University in Timisoara, master\u2019s degree specialization \u201cPenal sciences and criminalistics\u201d, PhD at Babes-Bolyai University in the field of \u201cJudicial Science \u2013 Procedural and Penal Law\u201d.<\/p>\n Ovidiu Vanghele is publisher at the Center for Media Investigations. Untill 2013, Ovidiu worked as a reported for Pro TV, there he also contributed at the \u201cRomania, I love you!\u201d show and\u00a0 also at the news agency Mediafax for over six years. Ovidiu specializes in producing journalistic investigations on issues related to justice, abuse of power, clientelism and corruption. He received multiple awards from RADOR, Journalists without borders and Romanian Press Club.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cristian Chiscop is program coordinator at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation. He has more than ten years experience in the field of modernization and consolidation of the democratic institutions in Romania, of the political parties especially, as the coordinator of several training programs for young individuals active in politics from Romania and Republic of Moldova. One of the more recent projects he was involved in is the itinerant exhibition \u201cNo to the right side extremism \u2013 for an active democracy\u201d, that sheds light on the Romania\u2019s extreme right strategies, the way they try to penetrate the culture of young people and disseminate extreme right concepts amidst the society.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n History<\/strong><\/p>\n See more details about the past editions of the Summer School for Democracy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\t![\"logo-mare-600x286\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/logo-mare-600x286.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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<\/a><\/strong>mius P\u00e2rvu<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"ac\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/ac.jpg\")
<\/a>Alina Constantinescu<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Luiza B\u0103l\u0103ceanu<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"doru\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/doru.jpg\")
<\/a>Doru Toma is program coordinator within Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rule of Law Program for South-East Europe. Among others, Doru coordinates the leadership program for young Romanian jurists \u201cLeaders for Justice\u201d and is actively involved in organizing the documentary film festival dedicated to human rights \u201cOne World Romania\u201d. Licensed in International Economic Relations in Bucharest (2003-2007), has a master in Geopolitics in Paris (2007-2008), Doru is also a graduate of the leadership programs \u201cSoutheast Europe and the EU \u2013 Leadership Development Programme\u201d (2010-2011) si \u201cFutureLab Europe\u201d (2011-2012).<\/p>\n![\"cv\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/cv.jpg\")
<\/a>C\u0103t\u0103lina is a psychologist with training in counselling, experiential therapy and certified trainer in non-formal education methods and creative expression. Her experience as a facilitator of personal development groups through creative methods (drama therapy, improvisation theatre, storytelling) conducted to a natural inclination to use metaphor and theatre when working with people. She participated to several labyrinth theatre performances and subsequently she was a constructor within labyrinth theatre performance \u201c9\u201d.
\nSpeakers<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"k\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/k.jpg\")
<\/a>Matthew Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMatthew Kelly joined the Foreign Service in 2010 after being a project manager for a company based in New York. He speaks Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, German and Bulgarian.<\/p>\n![\"neil-swain\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/neil-swain1.jpg\")
<\/a>Neil Swain<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"si\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/si.jpg\")
<\/a>Sorin Ioni\u021b\u0103<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Laura \u0218tefan<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"on\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/on.jpg\")
<\/a>Otilia Nu\u021bu<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"cd-600x466\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/cd-600x466.jpg\")
<\/a>Cristi Danilet<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"ZIUA](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/vanghele-1.jpg\")
<\/a>Ovidiu Vanghele<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"cch\"](\"http:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2014\/09\/cch.jpg\")
<\/a>Cristian Chiscop<\/strong><\/p>\n