Emir Shevkiiev

Current occupation

Head of organization, trainer

Work experience

01/04/2014 - present - Logos NGO, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Senior trainer

Developing and implementing training educational programmes for local and international activities. Training youth workers and young people on human rights education, critical thinking, media literacy, outdoor education, usage of escape rooms, LARP for education.

01/08/2013 - present - Logos NGO, Ukraine, Head of the organisation
Planning and taking strategic decisions. Recruiting new members, educating, managing and monitoring them. Managing coordinator and team leaders. Developing and implementing local and international projects. I also started and co-coordinate Skepsis movement devoted to the development of critical thinking and media literacy. In 2020 I launched a long-term project Fake Detox which debunks fakes, propaganda and disinformation and educates young people about critical thinking and media literacy.

27/10/2014 – 14/08/2019 - RNCB Bank, Business trainer
Developing and implementing trainings for employees of the bank. Delivering training courses on soft skills (time-management, team management, conflict management, project management, public speaking, sales, phone calls, etc.), developing and implementing assessment centres for 800 people.

01/07/2012 – 31/07/2013 - Parliamentary Development Project II; Crimea program specialist

Managing local parliament internship program, including promotion, recruitment, education and management of interns, organization of events, study tours and meetings; assist Crimea Activity Manager in the establishment of the Library Center; participate in work plan development, performance monitoring and project reporting activities; preparing reports of Crimean’s office activities.

01/07/2008 - 30/06/2009 - AIESEC Simferopol; President of local committee

Planning and taking strategic decisions. Leading the team of 4 vice-presidents. Tracking of local committee's plan and budget execution. Keeping local committee's legality. Educating presidents of projects and vice-presidents on topics as: team management, fund raising, project management, motivation, time-management, presentation skills, etc.

01/07/2007 - 30/06/2008 - AIESEC Simferopol; Vice-president on the exchange program.

Planning development of exchange programs in local committee. Selling internships to companies and students. Delivering training in sales, public speaking, self-efficiency, etc. Preparing students for exchange. Organising arrival and staying of interns in Simferopol.

Trainings I delivered (short ones are not included):
- Escape for human rights (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017)
- Escape for reality (Vilagarcia, Spain, 2018)
- Critical thinking-clean mind (Lviv, Ukraine, 2018)
- Behind the reality (Bisceglie, Italy, 2018)
- I feel I defend (Ceuta, Spain, 2018)
- Exit for human rights (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018)
- Escape for reality 2.0 (Vilagarcia, Spain, 2019)
- Critical thinking – Youth force (Riga, Latvia, 2019)
- Escape game for your rights (Riga, Latvia, 2019)
- Thinking habit (Riga, Latvia, 2019)
- Feeling factory (Kolin, Czechia, 2019)
- Escape for diversity (Poltava, Ukraine, 2021)
- Critical force (Poznan, Poland, 2021)
- Go outdoors: outdoor education for social inclusion (Lviv, Ukraine, 2021)
- Our Carpathian stories (Lviv, Ukraine, 2021)
- I want to break free (Beziers, France, 2021)
- Skepsis. Learning never ends (Kolin, Czechia, 2021)
- Escape rooms for education: fair future without xenophobia (Poznan, Poland, 2021)

While delivering these trainings we worked with different important issues and topics, such as gender discrimination, children rights, xenophobia, social inclusion, minorities rights, freedom of speech, islamophobia, migration, life of people with limited abilities and so on.