CORE TEAM:

Radosveta Krastanova – International coordinator for ‘Place for Future’ Interdisciplinary Education Network

Civic activity: Chairperson of the Board of Shtastlivetsa Sofia Civic Association

Civic experience: Coalition “Zero Waste” , Coalition “For the Nature”

Occupation: lecturer, department Political Science in French language, New Bulgarian University (NBU)

Academic qualifications: Master of French Philology, specialization – translation; Assistant in French Language for Political Scientists; PhD student in Political Science at NBU and the University of Burgundy at Dijon, France

Two words: surrealist in action

For contact: radosvetakk in gmail.com,

Radosveta Krastanova: My Place for a Future

We wish to make the island of public community a significant archipelago.

Official Closing of the Spring University at Chiprovtsi Municipality (Ceremonial Hall): Radosveta KRASTANOVA (Shtastlivetsa Civic Association and New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

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dr. Petar Kanev – main coordinator for the  “Place for Future” Interdisciplinary Education Network

Civic activity: member of the Board of Shtastlivetsa Sofia Civic Association

Civic experience: coalition “Zero Waste” , Coalition “For the Nature”

Occupation: assistant professor in Informing and Communications Department at the University of Library Studies and Information Techologies

research fellow in Anthropological Studies Department at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Academic qualifications: Master of Cultural Studies (Sofia University, 1999), Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Anthropology and Religious Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Science)

Two words: more light

Contact: petardkanev@gmail.com, 0988884303

Petar Kanev – A Place for the Future? or Despite the Slops

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Kalin Nenov – coordinator of the virtual campaign of Place for Future, translator, editor

Civic activity

: core member of the Human Library Foundation, creator and coordinator of MREDJAN (a civic action network), participant in “Ecological and practical” (a Bulgarian educational website)

Civic experience: volunteer in Green Balkans, For the Earth (Za Zemiata), For the Nature; participant in over 500 international environmental electronic campaigns; “specializes” in forest protection, climate change, and the role of personal choices

Occupation: translator, student

Academic qualifications: BA in English Language and Culture at NBU; currently doing a Master’s degree in Translation, again at NBU – European masters in translation also there.

Professional and non-professional experience:

here (in Bulgarian only)

Two words: connect, holism

Contact: kalin.nenov in gmail.com

Kalin NENOV (NBU, Shtastlivetsa)

The Human Library – Alternative Culture and Society of XXI Century 

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Gergana Kosturkova – intern, coordinator for Sofia University and University Club for Ecology and Sustainable Development UNECO

Occupation: student at Sofia University, doing BA in International Relations

Civic activity

: active member of UNECO; member of the Board of the Managers of Association “AMIGO” – Active Youth Initiatives for Civil Society; volunteer-mentor at Association “Volunteers Bulgaria”

Academic qualifications: BA in Cultural Studies at Sofia University

Two words: care, smile

Contact: gergana.kosturkova in gmail.com

German-Bulgarian student exchanges:

Sustainable consumption – provided the world with a future Weimar, May 2013

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Gergana Kosturkova

Sustainable Development in Chiprovtsi

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Yuliana Naskova – coordinator

Yuliana Naskova

– A Vission for Place for Future

I wish our project, which definitely is pilot and innovative as a spirit and conception, to become a stable center of ideas, strategies, plans, places, and people

Yuliana NASKOVA (Vlahi Nature School, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Shtastlivetsa Civic Association, Sofia).Seminar: ‘The Erasmus Generation: Vlahi Nature School: Sustainable Development, Volunteering, New Type of Education for Children and New Postmaterialist Culture’

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Ivan Popov – Ivo – Coordinator Art, Advertising and Public Relations

Ivan Popov – Ivo singing by the fire to the waterfall  in  Svrachi Dol: Chiprovtsi 

in the mountain.

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Stoil TSITSELKOV  - Jerry:

Coordinator Defence of Human Rights and Cultural Menagment

European Association for the Defence of Human Rights – Bulgaria and Shtastlivetsa Civic Association

Stoil TSITSELKOV  - Jerry: ‘Europe on a crossroad: from the EP elections towards European Citizens’ Initiative’ together with , Radosveta KRASTANOVA (Shtastlivetsa Civic Association and New Bulgarian University).

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Dr. Desislava ALEKSOVA

Coordinator for Ecological Organizations Network, ‘For the Nature Coalition’ and Environmental Civic Movements

Expert in Alternative and Sustainable Tourism

International Business School – Botevgrad and Shtastlivetsa

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Dr. Desislava ALEKSOVA: The Civic Green Movement in Bulgaria from 2005 until 2014: Successes, Problems and Perspectives for Citizens’ Empowerment’: together wiyh Vera PETKANCHIN (For the Nature Coalition, Citizens for Rila civic group and Shtastlivetsa) 

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Yordanka ZAMFIROVA,

Chiprovtsi, Alternative and Development (CHAR) Association and Shtastlivetsa Civic Association.

Coordinator for West Stara Planina Region and Chiprovtsi Municipality

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Georgi Stefanov – Coordinator

WWF – Bulgaria

Climate Coalition

and Shtastlivetsa Association

Expert in Climate Change, Environmental Politics, Ecological Management and Sustainable Tourism

Lecturer in New Bulgarian University

Georgi Stefanov – The Begining of Place for Future

The aim of PLACE FOR FUTURE is to unite the liberty-loving people, with “unaffected souls”, who have a vision of the important things in our existence, and in the same time to help each other.

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Dr. Lilia SAZONOVA

Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, BAS and Shtastlovetsa Association

Coordinator for Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)

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Dr. Lilia SAZONOVA (Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, BAS) — Cultural aspects of sustainable development: lecture at the Travelling university and Summer school for sustainable regional development ‘Place for Future: Chiprovtsi 2013′ 3-9 June 2013 Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria

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arch. dr. Kliment IVANOV

Coordinator for the Depatment of Architecture

in New Bulgarian University

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‘Green cities: how to save, renovate and bring back to life key urban spaces through sustainable management and development of cities’: arch. Kliment IVANOV (New Bulgarian University) and Dr. Franck DUBOIS (La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon, France )

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dr. Franck DUBOIS

Coordinator for

• La Maison des sciences de l’Homme, Dijon

• Georges Chevrier Centre at the University of Burgundy

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Franck DUBOIS (House of Human Sciences, Dijon, France) — Sustainable development in Dijon — best practices for sustainable urbanization: lecture at the Travelling university and Summer school for sustainable regional development

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Neli Nikolova – Coordinator for Traditional, Slow and Authentic Food

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Neli Stankova – accountant of Shtastlivetsa Association

Lyudmila Ivanova – documentation manager

Dimitra Kaneva – Coordinator

Simeon Gorov – Coordinator

Dimitar Balchov – Photographer

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architect Martin Mikush – auteur of Place for Future logo and conception

one of the creators of Place for Future Education Network

TEAM FOR COORDINATION WITH PARTNERS

Yordanka Dineva (Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation) – coordinator with coalition of civil campaigns and nature-conservation organizations “For the Nature

Nadezhda Maksimova – coordinator with coalition of civil campaigns and nature-conservation organizations “For the Nature”

Rostislav Kandilarov – coordinator of the town of Rousse

Alexander Kodzhabashev – legal consultant on issues of environmental law and civic participation