Antonela Kotsoni

Current occupation

Full time as Learning facilitator and project manager. Part time as a freelancer.

Work experience

I realized lately I have over 150 hours of training experience behind my back - it is amazing to see how these hours have been spent without me even knowing, as they were hours of exploring a passion.
I have been a trainer and a facilitator in different contexts, from social entrepreneurship, employability, digital youth work, soft skill, team management, conflict management etc. with all kinds of target groups, children, teenagers, young people, adults even, seniors, ethnic minorities (refugees and migrants) and people with disabililities. In 2018, I decided to take a more structured approach in my training path, so I joined the ToT seminar which led me to also being a member of the National pool of trainers of the Greek NA.
I work full time with the NGO InterMediaKT, which is all about innovating in e-learning and digital education. This kind of experience and expertise was amplified, during the lockdown created by the pandemic, so I was selected as the digital director of the COMETS team which will run digitally for the first time in September 2020.
I like to say fate brought it, but in reality it was also my goal as I am slowly moving into a combination of ICT tools and non formal learning methods, let's see how that turns out.

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A list of relevant training courses from the near past is:
- Social bus (InterMediaKT)
- Soft skills academy (EESTEC Patras)
-Replay (Italian NA)
- EEFEct (InterMediaKT)
- Re-startup (Pos4work)
- Patras Junior Codecamp (InterMediaKT)
- Quarantine webinars (InterMediaKT)
- Mobilize volunteers (Greek NA)
- Peer support (Greek NA)
- Competition "Why volunteering" (Greek NA)