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A month has already passed since our arrival to Brussels.

The 17th of April, we, Mathilda, Agata, Sara and Marta, started our first day at QUEST. After an intense training week, we celebrated with a smokey party, together with other QUEST members. 

Our first day in our new house!

We just had time to settle down and explore some of the amazing parks in town, before it was time to travel again. We packed our luggages and on the 2nd of May we travelled to Sofia (Bulgaria) for two exciting weeks. Our schedule was really full! 

First, we took part in a BUSTA project meeting, and we saw for the first time how this works. It was an inspiring moment where we had the chance not only to learn, but also to contribute with our ideas and inputs.
We can’t wait for the next LTT in September because we are going to host it!

BUSTA TPM

Then, we had the opportunity to visit Sofia’s Democratic School for a whole day. There, we observed and played with the children during their activities. It was so different from all we have experienced, and we came back with plenty of questions. 

Finally, we participated in the Learning Teacher Training as part of the DESC project. For five days we met with this big group of visionaries, we exchanged ideas and learned more about the topic. What kind of Democratic Education training could it have been without games? We played and exercised precious skills on decision making, group dynamics and democratic education practices.

Sofia’s Streets
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Cala Wioska School

Cala Wioska School

Biography coming soon.

Creating a Safe, Inclusive and Supportive Classroom

Sehlim Charles

Biography coming soon.

Young Children’s Voices in Educational Decision-Making: Power and Participation in Disadvantaged Preschool Classrooms

Duygu Yalman Polatlar

Duygu Yalman Polatlar is an Assistant Professor at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Türkiye. Her research focuses on early childhood education, children’s literature, children’s rights, and children’s participation.

Alperen Avcı

Alperen Avcı is a lecturer at Muş Alparslan University, Türkiye, and a PhD candidate in Preschool Education at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University.

Rights-based Participation of Children with Special Educational Needs in Educational Decision-Making

Lenka Mazáková

Lenka Mazakova is a co-founder of the Slobodna skola. She specializes in inclusive educational practices for students with diverse needs and behavioural challenges in democratic school environments.

From Participation to Practice: How Evidence-Based Wellbeing and Equity-Focused Leadership Can Shift Power Towards Children’s Voices in Education

Geetika Goyal

Biography coming soon.

Jayne Carter

Biography coming soon.

Reimagining Educational Research Through Children’s Participation: Insights from Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches

Sarah Zerika

Sarah Zerika holds a PhD in Educational Sciences and is a Substitute Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Children’s Rights Studies. Her research focuses on children’s rights and participation in education, school climate, transdisciplinary approaches, and the ethics of research involving children.

Johanna Zelck

Johanna Zelck is a research and teaching assistant at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Her doctoral research focuses on children’s interpretation and negotiations of the generational order and adultism.

Maude Louviot

Biography coming soon.

From Consultation to Co-Creation: Child Leadership in Practice in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia

Nejira Pasic

Nejira Pašić is the Children’s Rights Project Lead for Southeast Europe at the Global Campus of Human Rights, where she leads children’s rights mainstreaming and programming, including the Child Leadership Team and Youth Advisory Group. She is also a Lecturer at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, teaching research methods, public policy and human rights.