| Board and working group of the Association for Community Colleges: "The board is in charge of the day-to-day running and of the initiatives taken..." (§13)
This is the composition of the board since the General Assembly 2006:
| | Emma Yeoman, Cambridge, (elected 2007)
Emma completed her BA in Law and German at the universities of Sheffield and Regensburg this summer. She specialised in medical law, in particular in the maintenance of autonomy for eldery patients. Currently she is studying on a pre-medical course in King's Lynn, preparing for medical school in 2005. She has been involved in work for the ESG in Germany and is now an active member of the Altvilligster network of Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.Having been a prep-com member of ERCC II and throughly enjoyed it, she is now working on the ACC Berlin project for next summer.
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| |  View John Petersen's profile
Chairman, Sønderborg (elected 2007)
As a chairman, founder and executive leader of the ACC International Programme Office (1999-2006) John is a central person for the ACC since its very beginning. Countless European projects, events, publications and ideas within or outside ACC stems from the work of John.
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| | Conchi Gallego, Madrid, deputy chair (elected 2006)
Conchi Gallego studied Journalism in the Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and has worked in different fields specially related to the NGO sector. For more than 10 years she was involved in the Youth work and youth organisations at the local, regional and national level, carrying out the representation of these organisations and platforms at European level. Its main area of speciality has been training and Intercultural Education.Since the begining of 2004 Conchi is the Director of the Participation Department in the Town Hall of Algete (small city situated in the north of Madrid) dealing with the development of the NGO sector in the town and specially working for the establishment of permanent consultation structures between the citizens and the local administration.
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| | Dasa Bolcina, Trieste (elected 2007)
Dasa belongs to the Slovene minority in Italy. She has been studying communication and journalism in Slovenia and Croatia. In the 2002 she did her European Voluntary Service in Denmark at one of the 13 folk high schools involved in the Youth2002. Involved in many different cross-border projects, especially in the field of education social inclusion and youth, she is currently working for the Slovene vocational training institute in Trieste, where she is responsible for Interreg educational projects.
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| | Lucie Čížková, Praha/Helsingør (elected 2006)
Lucie completed her MA in International Studies at Charles University with a thesis titled: Learning for European Co-Citizenship - Danish Contribution to the Educational Aspect of Post-National Identity Formation in Europe, which dealt very much with issues related to the ACC mission. She has been an AFS Intercultural Programs volunteer for several years and for a period of time also worked intensely with asylum seekers both in Czechia and in Denmark. Lucie has lived, studied or worked in Spain, Canada, Belgium and Denmark, where she's currently employed as a teacher at the only truly international folk high school in Denmark, The International People's College (IPC) in Helsingør. She sees a great potential in carrying out some of ACC activities at IPC in the future.
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Erik Jentges, Berlin, (elected 2006, substitute)
Erik has been living, working and studying in the USA, Israel and France for one year each. He is currently studying social sciences at Humboldt-University at Berlin. Lately, he has focused on the development of European integration, with interests in identity, the public sphere and organised civil society on a European level. He has worked with the student group on cultural sensitization at the Department of Comparative Education at Humboldt-University, now named Indik e.V. (Institute for Didactics of Intercultural Actions), and has been a volunteer with the German Youth for Understanding (YFU), promoting one year student exchanges. He is now also engaged with the European Educational Exchanges – Youth for Understanding (EEE-YFU), supporting the German volunteer network. Erik is working on the ACC Berlin Committee, aiming at establishing the Representations Community College in summer 2005.
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| | Jan-Christoph Napierski, treasurer, Haan (elected 2006).
Jan-Christoph specialised in his studies on identifications of national and ethnic minorities in Europe as well as the political relations between the Nordic countries, Germany and Poland. He studied History, Political Sciences and Polish language at the universities of Duisburg (D), Surrey (UK) and Cracow (PL) and has taken an MA degree in European Studies at the University of Aarhus (DK). JC has been involved in the political work of the German minority in Denmark and the European Movement. He is an active member of the German “Aktion Gemeinsinn e.V.” promoting active citizenship. After his studies, he was awarded a scholarship by the German government for an internship as Carlo-Schmid-Fellow at the Secretariat of the Commissioner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, Copenhagen. He is the treasurer of the ACC.
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| | Elisabeth Alber, Meran/Brussels(elected 2006, substitute)
Elisabeth Alber belongs to the German-speaking minority living in the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano/Bulsan in Northern Italy. Coming from an officially bilingual (in some areas trilingual - ladin) and tricultural (Austrian/Italian/Ladin) environment, Elisabeth Alber has a special interest in intercultural, linguistic and human rights research.
She studied International Sciences and Diplomacy at the University of Trieste (Italy), Torino (Italy) and Turku (Finland), and has taken part in the Jean Monnet Program “Advanced Diploma in European Studies”.
She worked as a German teacher, translator and interpreter, and focused on the relationship of minorities/majorities while working at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Germany with a special interest in the legal and political framework of minority protection in Europe. Having been a prep-com member of ERCC II and having been invited as a South Tyrolean/Italian representative to several international seminars in Denmark, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Germany and Austria she has been actively involved in Youth work.
Currently she is working in Brussels at the Economic and Social Committee of the EU.
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| | Mjellma Mehmeti, secretary, Skopje (elected 2007).
Mjellma Mehmeti did her Master Degree Programme on European Studies at the Aarhus University and is now working in Skopje. She is one of the founders of the ACC and the founder of the Association for Emancipation, Solidarity, and Equality of Women, a women´s non-governmental organization that addresses conflict transformation and the promotion of inter-ethnic dialogue through different programmes in FYRMacedonia. As a member of the Bureau of the Council of Europe’s Youth and Sport Directorate in Strasbourg, France, she helped promote human rights values and equality among young Europeans. A tireless advocate for human and women’s rights, Ms. Mehmeti was awarded Young European of the Year in 2002.
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