Friday 23 May 2014

New Team Member: Iulia Socea

We are very happy to welcome Iulia Socea in our team. She replaces Ulrike Bey, currently on maternity leave, as Capacity Building Officer.

Iulia has started working in the field of peacebuilding and social transformation in 2009, while finalising her MA studies in Security Management in Contemporary Society. Prior to that she had studied International Relations and European Studies, both in Romania and in Czech Republic at Charles University. Her academic background also includes a Master’s Degree in Business Development and Management.

As a peacebuilding professional, Iulia has worked with the Peace Action Training and Research Insitute of Romania, initially as training coordinator and, starting with August 2010, as a trainer. Her areas of expertise as a trainer include: discrimination, gender issues, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, intercultural communication, non-violent communication, training development/implementation/evaluation, project management, strategic planning, strategic communication, and social media for nonprofits. Also as a part of her career in peacebuilding, Iulia has completed a 9-months EU funded assistantship with the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

For the past year she has been working as a part-time project manager with Musicians without Borders, for the From Woman to Woman project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and she is a long-term collaborator of Peace is the Ways Films, an Austrian-based socially-minded production company.

At TRIALOG she will work in close cooperation with the Liaison Officers of EU13 development CSO platforms, monitor the national capacity building activities and organise different TRIALOG events. You can contact Iulia at i.socea@trialog.or.at.


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