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Are you active in the field of lifelong learning, transformative education and SDG Target 4.7? Then join our Bridge 47 Network of inspiring and inspired people from all over the world!

The Bridge 47 Network brings interesting people together from all over the world and opens opportunities for them to exchange ideas, experiences and best practices. It is made up of representatives from civil society organisations, researchers, policy makers, activists, business people and educators. Through the network, people from these different areas can find common ground, exchange knowledge and even find opportunities collaborate. We facilitate networking for our members; helping you to get in touch with the right colleagues around the world.

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We strive to form a vibrant coalition across continents. The aim is to create a space for members to collaborate on transforming our societies through education and to help them spot inspiring, out of the box opportunities for cooperation.

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Bridge 47 facilitates networking on request. This list contains some of our network members and their professional expertise and know-how.

If you are interested in reaching out to one of our network members, please contact Mariam Osman, our Communications and Events Trainee at mariam.osman@bridge47.org.

Name	Organisation	Location	Expertise
Rosemine Abdallah		France
Watson Ali	Third Generation Project	Scotland	Our current program… Our current program experience (see www.thirdgenerationproject.org), and our collaborative methodlogy.
Abdenour Allouche	Youths organization	Algeria	Our volunteering and the… Our volunteering and the experience in Algeria.
Khalaf Al’Abri	Sultan Qaboos University	Oman	I do have a funded… I do have a funded project on promoting global citizenship in Omani schools.
Daniel Amewuda	emdaG Consulting Limited	Ghana
Sandra Ameyaw Amankwaa	Lifeline Ghana	Ghana	Advocacy, partnerships,… Advocacy, partnerships,capacity building and project management e.g health education
Corinne Angier	University of Stirling	United Kingdom
Laurent Arnoult	Par Le Monde	France	Design of digital… Design of digital intercultural correspondance programs for kids.
Carole Avande Houndjo	Pamoja West Africa	Bénin
David Ayodele	Allfordevelopment	Nigeria
Shermaine Barrett	University of Technology, Jamaica/Jamaican Council fot Adult Education	Jamaica	Designing training… Designing training programs. Transformational learning methods. Adult Education skills and competencies. Conducting qualitative research around the issue of sustainable development.
Stasa Benko		Slovenia
Sue Bentley	Eco-Active Learning	United Kingdom	Wide-ranging experience… Wide-ranging experience engaging with community groups, schools, other children's groups (scouts, churches) around issues of social justice and in particular Fairtrade
Rachel Binnie	Glasgow City Council	Scotland	Incorporating… Incorporating sustainable and citizenship education in to daily school work across curriculum areas. Close partnership working with others to support teachers deliver young people's entitlements through guidance, resources and professional training.
Kristina Birk-Vellemaa	Estonian Sexual Health Association	Estonia	Sexuality education,… Sexuality education, gender mainstreaming, diversification.
Ingrid Borárosová	Bratislava Policy Institute	Slovakia	Knowledge based on… Knowledge based on various methods of informal education especially focusing on the younger generation as our fortress. Also the information and data concerning hate speech, hate crime in its various forms.
Laure BOUKABZA	ECPM	France	ECPM have developed an… ECPM have developed an educational kit over the years (link to our field of expertise, the abolition of the death penalty), along with debate trainings and interactive activities.
Herbriance Briones	Our Lady of Peace School	Philippines	Since I am under the… Since I am under the Social Science area and a teacher by profession, I am much more willing to be of part in brainstorming and coming up with active pedagogies in delivering the sdg 4.7 to our students nowadays.
Alan Britton	Education Scotland	Scotland/UK
Gemma Burnside	Scotland Malawi Partnership	United Kingdom	Working with a broad… Working with a broad range of schools and young with international partnerships.
Ronald Cameron	Institut de coopération pour l'éducation des adultes	Canada	Experiences and global… Experiences and global analysis of the current crisis, challenges and alternatives.
Francesco Cendron	Conlan School + start up Centre for Global Citizenship Education	Italy
Professor Idahosa Charles	Ballsbridge University Worldwide	Dominica	Advice and knowledge Advice and knowledge
Burke Ciara	Individual and lecturing UCC	Ireland	Information about… Information about working with groups, share learning, experiences etc
La Salete Coelho	CEAUP - Centre for African Studies of the University of Porto; ESE-IPVC - Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo	Portugal
Susana Constante Pereira	Freelance working with several organisations	Portugal
Floriane Crolas	ADESAF	France	Senzitization of all… Senzitization of all publics to international solidarity, sustainable development, gender inequalities, world inequalities. Support for local authorities in France in countries of ADESAF intervention in Africa.
Krissie Davis	Freelance	Scotland	Secondary Science… Secondary Science teacher for 28 years, so fully conversant with the Scottish Science curriculum. Development of resources for other teachers and young people
Laura De Witte	Mandacaru - cooperative of social and cultural intervention	Portugal	From 2003, I'm part… From 2003, I'm part of the pool of trainers of DG Youth and Sports of the Council of Europe : training for trainers in non formal education, in Human Rights education, in Youth Participation, Roma empowerment. I was also part of the editorial team of the manual Compass - Human Rights Education with young people and Composite - Human Rights education with children . Beside, I work also with the Anna Lindh Foundation in trainings fo trainers in Intercultural Citizenship in Euro Med region.
Patricia Digon	University of La Coruna (Spain)	Spain
Eilish Dillon	Department of International Development, Maynooth University	Ireland	Over 30 years experience… Over 30 years experience in development and global education in a variety of contexts, including 20 years working in higher education. I have extensive facilitation, teaching and lecturing experience in a range of areas of relevance to the SDGs and global development theory, research and practice. I have undertaken Doctoral research of discourses of development and global education in Ireland and on the power relations shaping practice and have published on the connections important for transformative global education, i.e., between the past, present and future; the local and the global and the personal and the political. I have a particular interest in discourses of development as well as in NGO representations of global development and have been active in promoting ethical communication practice in this area over many years.
Karangeli Dimitra	Vox_Populi-S.R.c.Thessaly	Greece	Our organization is well… Our organization is well aware of how to organize local government simulation sessions, such as the operation of a regional or municipal council.
Carmen Duce	University of Valladolid	Spain
Monika Duelge	Eine Welt Netz NRW e.V. (One World Network NRW e.V.)	Germany	* Developing campaigns… * Developing campaigns and projects * Building networks * Advocacy
Valerie Duffy	National Youth Council of Ireland	Ireland
Dunkley Dunkley	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
Charlotte Dwyer	Scotdec	United Kingdom	I am an experienced GCE… I am an experienced GCE trainer with nearly 15 years of experience. I have a post graduate qualification as a Global Trainer from the University of London. Most of my work has been focussed on delivery in formal education settings.
Mats Ehn	Färnebo folkhögskola	Sweden
Diana Ellis	West of Scotland Development Education Centre	United Kingdom
Marja Eronen	International Romani Union - IRU	Finlabd	Ispecialize in health… Ispecialize in health and disability sociology. I've worked as a researcher in the central administration and the National Board of Education as a special education planner and a producter of learning materials. I have long experience in lobby work in NGOs.
Graham Esson	Perth& Kinross Council	Scotland
Oluseyi Fasoranti	Local Youth Assembly International	Canada	Pass it on project - a… Pass it on project - a platform that was formed for trainers to train more people to become trainers.
Harm-Jan Fricke	self-employed	United Kingdom
Elisa Gambardella	SOLIDAR Foundation	Belgium	We are currently… We are currently developing a policy paper on our members' work for achieving SDG Target 4.7 and, in general, SOLIDAR's advocacy sound and long-standing expertise
Laurence Gardiner	Centraal Opvang Asielzoekers COA (Dutch Asylum Service)	Netherlands	Current work consists of… Current work consists of assisting and supporting refugees through the resettlement process and helping with citizenship in the Netherlands. I work with local, regional national and international partners across countries and cultures. Previous work has included: Trustee with Getting Heard; Director with Oxfordshire Advocacy; Lay Observer with Oxford University Hospitals Trust (OUH) at John Radcliffe Hospital; Lay Member with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) at UK Parliament; Director with CODA International at South African NGO Network (SANGONET); Director with CODA International at South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO); Country Manager with Romanian Orphanages Trust (Oradea); Director and Trustee with Parent Advocates Together.
Anna Gevorgyan	EduCare Educational Foundation	Armenia	We support trainers in… We support trainers in designing courses for formal, informal and non-formal adult education settings; We work with NGOs to design toolkits to monitor the situation with the right to education in the country.
Naomi Gichuru	National Cohesion and Integration Commission	Kenya
Dzebam Godlove	ISTP Cameroon/Draufsicht Bamenda	Cameroon
Júlio Gonçalves Santos	Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Porto University	Portugal
Jose Roberto 'Robbie' Guevara	International Council of Adult Education (ICAE)	Australia	Our strength in capacity… Our strength in capacity-building in particular for adult learning and education trainers and facilitators; advocacy training and network building
Karen Hagelskaer	Mundu	Denmark
Johanna Harjunpää	Finnish Development NGOs Fingo	Finland
Tom Hauber	Freelance	Germany	I have knowledge and… I have knowledge and know how about: interdisciplinary project management (fields: culture, music, and arts; acting; urban planning and participation) volunteer management leadership and co creational learning structures strategic management and planning (stakeholder management) programm (curriculum / activity) development and project development psychological counseling (social work)
Maiju Hirviniemi	Lahti city	Finland
Timo Holthoff	VENRO	Germany
Henri Holtsmeier	Friends of the Earth Estonia	Estonia	I can lecture on why… I can lecture on why growth based economic system and environmental sustainability can't go hand in hand. Insights into oil shale production and development in Estonia. Using zoom for webinars, marketing online events. As I'm climate activist, I'm part of Fridays For Future and help to build the movement. I can share insights on what the activists think and believe.
Nicolai Houe	Committe for Solidarity With Central America // Nordic Praxis //	Denmark	Knowledge of and… Knowledge of and experience with development processes in organisations, leaders and people. Knowledge of and experience with transforming digital learning that will facilitate changes in behaviour and praxis.
Marjan Huc	SLOGA	Slovenia
Saša Hudnik	Azum Institute	Slovenia	In Azum Institute we… In Azum Institute we enhance creative and innovative approaches to advocate, teach and educate youth about peace, non-violence, human rights, gender equality ... using integrative methods of expressive arts therapy, drama and movement therapy, music therapy and drama in education.
Mary Ioannidou	YEU Cyprus	Cyprus	Our extensive experience… Our extensive experience in non-formal education and experiential learning in youth projects and advocating on the rights of young people with regards to having voice in the Cypriot society and beyond.
Nakakande Irene	Somero Uganda	Uganda
Yoko Ito	Development Education Association and Resource center	Japan
Sinkkonen Jussi	Maaseutuyhdistys Sydänlanka ry	Finland	We organize activities… We organize activities according to the natural cycle, listening to people's strengths and valuing their resources. Everyone can suggest an event or create a circle about an exciting subject or activity. One of the most powerful resources is the dreams of people. We encourage people to dream, visualize, be creative, play, and strengthen the connection with yourself and the area that surrounds you. An important part of activity is the gathering and preservation of natural resources; wild food, berries, herbs etc. Also community workshops related to gardening, for example. Not forgetting culture, music, singing and crafts.. and sauna of course!
Emmanuel Kamwi	Danish Minorities Center for Human Rights and Development (DMC-HRD)	Denmark	I possess… I possess experience of having been a teacher at a Danish Folk High School, the courses I have taught have primarily been aimed at promoting global active citizenship. I also possess experience in programme management.
Helene Kannegaard	CISU - Civil Society in Development	Denmark
Carrie Karsgaard	University of Alberta	Canada	academic research on… academic research on global citizenship education, including literary studies and global citizenship education as well as climate change education; experience with international collaborative online education projects around global issues
Alzbeta Kerekes	Habitat for Humanity International	Slovakia	Our organization is… Our organization is focusing mainly on SDG 11 and housing issues, so we are focused on this field and can share this point of view on education.
Su Ming Khoo	NUI Galway	Ireland
Elżbieta Kielak	Ms	Polska
Betsy King	Learning for Sustainability Scotland	Scotland	Education for… Education for Sustainable Development
Pankaj Kishor	Art of Community Enhancement Foundation	India	As a well trained… As a well trained professional with a rich and varied background in rural development and governance, has 8 years of work experience in the areas of rural and urban development, livelihoods, entitlement of marginalized communities for education.
Kaloyan Konstantinov	Bulgarian Platform for International Development	Bulgaria
Mārīte Kravale-Pauliņa	Daugavpils University	Latvia	Teacher education,… Teacher education, training, career education
Elżbieta Krawczyk	Centre for Citizenship Education	Polska
Anuradha Kumar	InWithFlux	India	Having worked in the… Having worked in the advertising and P.R. industry , my expertise lies in ideation and promotion strategies which I can bring to the table towards achieving goals and bringing about mindset perceptions specially in the space of education, empowerment and the environment.
Zuzana Labašová	CEEV Živica	Slovakia
Mark Langdon	The SANE Collective	Scotland	Knowledge and experience… Knowledge and experience of social movement building and community development.
Rilli Lappalainen	Bridge 47	Finland
Una Lappin	ULtd - developing currently	Northern Ireland
Dietzel Lars	The Melton Foundation	Chile	Our programs focus on… Our programs focus on furthering Global Citizenship practice. (link: https://meltonfoundation.org/)
Saleh Lazam	Almuthanna university	Iraq	Interest on iraq Interest on iraq
Stephen Lee	Kadesh International	South Africa	Several pedagogies for… Several pedagogies for learning.
Laura Leeson	Projet Jeune Leader	Madagascar	Primary Constituent… Primary Constituent Accountability - What it is and how to go about improving it Best practices in Comprehensive Sexuality Education Working with very young adolescents (ages 10-14)
Valerie Lewis	Education and Training Boards Ireland	Ireland	Mapping content to the… Mapping content to the learning outcomes and teaching and learning in the post primary curriculum.
d'Arcy Lunn	Teaspoons of Change	Australia
Carminda Mac Lorin	Katalizo	Canada
Carolina Magdalene Maier	Danish Adult Education Association	Denmark	We stand on a platform… We stand on a platform of "folkbildung" in Denmark which is quite unique. Our history of cooperatives and cooperative ways of organising youth and adult learing that lies besides the formal education is long and traditional.
Golaleh Makrooni	Tampere University	Finland	Education and migrant… Education and migrant family students.
Jennifer Manabat	Philippine Red Cross	Philippines	Good Laboratory… Good Laboratory Practices Document Control Biosafety and Biosecurity
Paolo Mascia	ISCOS Piemonte	Italy
Tran Max	Fingo	Finland
Graeme McMeekin	Tearfund	United Kingdom
Goran Mitrovic	Association "People's Parliament"	Serbia
Sandra Morrison	International Council of Adult Education (ICAE)	New Zealand	As per above. I am very… As per above. I am very much embedded in my indigneous community in NZ and have extensive experience of also working in the South Pacific which has its own unique experiences
Joan Mowat	University of Strathclyde	Scotland
WILLIE NGAMBELA	MONZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE	ZAMBIA	Gender related issues in… Gender related issues in Education.
Peterson Njagi	Comenius University in Bratislava - FSES	Slovak Republic
Sarah Nuedling	Fachstelle Globales Lernen, Kirchenkreis Hamburg Ost	Germany	Design and facilitate… Design and facilitate trainings on GCE and transformative education, facilitate and organise group learning processes and multi-stakeholder dialogues, working with concept of systemic change.
Mariam Osman	Bridge 47 / Fingo	Finland
Alita Pan	MeiSha Bilingual School	中国	ICT ICT
Joanna Pankowska	Polska Akcja Humanitarna	Poland	Critical global… Critical global education, lifelong learning, creating materials for all levels of education, from interactive games to substantive publications, focus on autoreflexion
Xose Luis Pastoriza-Rozas	University of Santiago de Compostela	Spain
Gil Pereira	Associação Famalicão em Transição / YUPI - Youth Union of People with Initiative	Portugal	Mostly around the… Mostly around the methodologies and practices of non formal education and environmental education, mainly focus with youth, but not strictly, and the approaches of making it complement with the formal education (schools and other similar educational systems).
Daniel Perell	Baha'i International Community	United States
Eleftheria Photiou	NGO Support Centre	Cyprus
Tiina Piipponen	Metropolia University of Applied Sciences	Finland	My educational… My educational background is in international and global politics as well as in intercultural encounters, I also have teacher qualifications and I have experience in teaching HEI students intercultural learning including global citizenship aspects
Oona Piipponen	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	Intercultural learning… Intercultural learning and encountering, Using stories and storytelling to form reciprocal relationships, Storycrafting method, Developing global citizenship education with primary school aged children, Children's perspectives and participation,
Nathalie Porte	Union des associations e-graine	France	We will be able to share… We will be able to share the results of the action-research at work on our migration education programme "One world Citizen". This action-research studies cooperative multi-actor governance (State, ministries, experts, financial donors, NGOs) designed to deploy the societal impact of this educational programme. The aim is to share the methodology at work within the movement and with our partners in order to initiate this cooperative process. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Svitlana Poznyak	Institute of Social and Political Psychology	Ukraine
Tomáš Profant	Comenius University	Slovakia
Silvia Puente	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona)	Spain
AHM Bazlur Rahman	Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication	Bangladesh	Role of Community… Role of Community Broadcasting in SDG: 4.7
Antti Rajala	University of Helsinki	Suomi
Keri Reid	Muthill Primary School/University of Stirling	Scotland
Sanna Rekola	Fingo	Finland	Finnish experiences on… Finnish experiences on critical GCED in practice, the use of values and systemic thinking in GCED and transformative learning, future thinking and foresight practices.
Nepal Rijal	Sakcham Rural Nepal	Nepal
José João Rodrigues	Casa da Esquina	Portugal
Maria Rodrigues	Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança	Portugal
Sally Romilly	One World Centre	Scotland	Experience of leading… Experience of leading GCE workshops for teachers
Katarina Roncevic	The Turquoise Change	Germany
Marie Sandvad	Kalundborg High School	Denmark	Using the Global Goals… Using the Global Goals for teaching (www.verdensmaalene.dk)
Nicolai Seest	&LEARNING	Denmark	Knowledge in combining… Knowledge in combining creativity and innovation with the SDGs in education. See https://aktionverdensmaal.net/english/
Mbunkur Shey Vitalis	Better Future for All Association	Cameroon	I am an SDG advocate and… I am an SDG advocate and the Founder of Better Future for All Association and has been a volunteer African coordinator with Youth Human Rights and Citizenship Development Initiative and Youth for Human Rights International for promoting entrepreneurship, and SDGs in Cameroon. I am currently a UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Local Pathways Fellow. Leadership experiences I had gained working with young people and as a community leader will be shared with other members to make our world a better place for all.
Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi	Dept of Adult Education & Lifelong Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria	Nigeria	My research area is… My research area is Adult Education & Lifelong Learning, I specializes in indigenous Education. In this context, I use the tools of storytelling to convey messages & knowledge in global citizenship education with stories from all nations.
Christos Simis	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Germany	Critical and analytic… Critical and analytic skills for philosophical reflection. Making scientific research accessible to non-experts.
Sara Smith	Royal Highland Education Trust	UK
EufemiA Solinas	Global Action Plan Ireland	Ireland	We can share our… We can share our knowledge of utilising DevEd/GCE, ESD and the SDGs as an education tool to enact local change. In addition we can share our learnings from utilizing key community members to help enable community action through a multiplier effect.
Benjamin Stewart	Deutsches Insitut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (DIE)	Germany
Dr Dalene Swanson	University of Stirling	Scotland / UK
Hanna Tamminen	Teachers' Mission Association of Finland	Finland
Alan Tuckett	University of Wolverhampton	UK	skills in advocacy skills in advocacy
Andreea-Loredana Tudorache	A.R.T. Fusion Association Romania	Romania
Jenni Tuominen	Bridge 47 / Fingo	Finland
Sebastian Van Hoeck	University Center for Development Cooperation	Belgium
Judi Varga-Toth	Colleges and Institutes Canada	Canada
María José Vázquez	Fundación ETEA - Universidad Loyola Andalucía	Spain	We can share our… We can share our expertise in working with the impoverished South.
Ira Vihreälehto	Association of Cultural Heritage Education in Finland	Finland
Patricija Virtič	SLOGA - Slovene NGO platform for development, global education and humanitarian aid	Slovenia	Global education,… Global education, communication, campaigning, social media, fake news.
Shirley Walters	PIMA	South Africa	I have been a professor… I have been a professor of adult and continuing education for 35 years and have spent my professional life as an activist scholar in the interests of socio-economic-ecological justice.
Gabriel Weibl	Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Institute of European Studies and IR	Slovakia	SEEKEP within FSEV… SEEKEP within FSEV Comenius University in Bratislava with AMPRELA
Jan Wenzel	VENRO	Germany
Deborah Williams	The Global Citizens English Project	Spain
Marie Wilpers	v#	Germany	Global Education/… Global Education/ political education
Burcu Yeşiladalı	Independent	Turkey
Tsvetina Zaharlieva	"Youth and Civil Initiatives in the Rose Valley"	Bulgaria
Jakub Žaludko	Ambrela - Platform for Development Organizations	Slovakia	Past experience for… Past experience for Bridge 47 Natinal level advocacy strategies Experience with regional GCE networks (NSC of CoE, GENE? Bridge 47, CONCORD HUB4)
Stefania Zourka	Simulation of the Youth Municipal Council of Kozani, Greece	Greece	We have achieved good… We have achieved good organizational techniques and teamwork management. We have also, experience in making graphics (infographics, leaflets, presentations) and have increased soft skills, as far as youth work and workshops are concerned.
Johan Stubbe Østergaard	Klimasamtalen	Denmark

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