Simona Mursec

Trainer background

Current occupation

master student of international relations; working as a free lance trainer in HRE and as facilitator at intercultural events (also other topics as EU, social inclusion, cross-border co-operation,...)

Work experience

Please consult my CV, where you will find a detailed description of all my current work experiences! Or visit my LinkedIn profile for references out of the Youth Field.

Here are some older work experiences from the start of my training involvement
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Dec. 05 - Jan. 06: Winter School: Make capitalism history. Werftpfuhl, Germany (international seminar, 155 participants, 8 days)

Feb. 06: EVS pre-departure training; Kranj, Slovenia (2 days, 5 participants)

March 06: EVS on arrival training; Kranj, Slovenia (5 days, 16 participants)

April 06: Queer Easter: The incredible being of Queerness. Werftpfuhl, Germany (international seminar, 90 participants, 6 days)

May 06: Trespassing Nationality (18 participants from former Yugoslav republics, training given in Yugo-esperanto)

May 06: IUSY Study Session: International Soldarity and Intercultural Learning; EYCB Budapest (18 participants, 3 continents, 7 days)

June 06: Intercultural learning and civil conflict resolution; Werftpfuhl, Germany (international seminar, 25 participants, 7 days)

August 06: EVS pre-departure training; Bohinj Slovenia (3 days, 8 participants)

September 06: Euro Visions: European Social and Economic Model; Werftpfuhl, Germany (25 international participants, 8 days)

September 06 - November 06: National Compass Training for Trainers for national and ethnic minorities; Slovenia (20 participants, 6 weeks on-line training; 3 days practical training)

Dec. 06 - Jan. 07: Winter School: Education for a social change; Werftpfuhl, Germany (120 international participants, 8 days)

Educational pathway

In 2004 I participated and completed several training for trainers and specialised in Human Rights Education. The most important training for me in that year was the National training for trainers from the Slovenian national Youth council.

The following year in 2005 I was one of 9 trainers who completed and are now certified in Slovenia as National Human Rights Education trainers of the Compass programme of the Council of Europe.

In 2005 I also finished my trial period and became a full member of the international training team of the Youth Education Center Kurt Loevenstein in Werftpfuhl, Germany.

In the fall of 2005 I got accepted as a participant of a 2 years special Council of Europe project ACT-HRE (Advanced Compass training in Human Rights Education), which finished in March 2008.

I'm also a part of the pool of trainers of the Slovenian national youth council and was regularly leading EVS trainings up until 2010.

Since February 2007 I'm also a trainer in the European Youth Forum Pool of Trainers and Facilitators.

In 2008 I accomplished, additional to my university requirements, 2 french language courses and have since then lead short workshops in French.

In September 2009 I graduated (4 - year bachelor) in International Relations

In January 2010 I have received a diploma for successfully completing an international project management school "Human Rights in Development Co-operation", which represents a culmination of the extensive work I have been doing in 2009 on an Africa-Europe Youth co-operation project.

I started a master programme in International Relations in 2009.

From April 2010 until November 2010 I was working as a stagiaire (intern) at the Slovenian Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

All these and many more educational experiences make me the kind of a trainer I am right now; full of energy, knowledgeable, positive and very serious when it comes to fulfilling my aims and objectives. At the same time I have learned that flexibility and adjust-ability are as well great values; but above all it is the true belief in people and the sincere relationship you get to establish with your participants that I cherish mostly.

As Freire said, true education, that does not reproduce is the education where the teacher (trainer) also becomes the student (participant) and the student also becomes the teacher.