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Join our Youth Advisory Board!
QUEST is looking for a group of young people (13-25) to support us, ensuring that every of our actions is youth-informed and youth-led! Youth Advisory Board members can offer their own unique perspectives and experiences, with the aim of ensuring that QUEST can represent a wide range of EU diverse young people and children.
Applications are currently closed but please contact us at info@quest-eu.org if you’d be interested in joining the board in the future!
ESC Volunteers
Are you interested in volunteering for one year at QUEST through the European Solidarity Corps programme?
Are you 18-30 year-old and interested in education? Do you enjoy working in a multicultural environment? Do you want to learn how a non-profit organisation works and are you ready to experience Brussels life?
Send your CV and motivation letter indicating your preferred position (ESC Communication Assistant or ESC Project Assistant) at info@quest-eu.org by the 6th of July 2026, or complete the form
Internships
We are always happy to receive spontaneous applications for short-term internships!
Send us your CV and motivation letter at info@quest-eu.org
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.