Our Team

Nikolas Nikolaou (Project Manager)

Nikolas Nikolaou (president of NGO ACPELIA) plays a central or peripheral role in every project with his expert knowledge. He is successful as a coach and organizer in his personal life..

President of ACPELIA (Mr Nikolas Nikolaou, physics teacher in high school, BSC, MSc in Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens and MSc, BSc in the University of Cyprus at Physics department) has previous experience by taking part in many seminars and actions related to Environment, Non-Formal Education, Entrepreneurship and Discrimination. He organized and participated in more than 20 European programs which are doing with Non-Formal Education (KA105, KA205, KA229, Youth In Action) as well as several local environmental and Science projects with groups of young people, many of them can be found in his website: www.nikolas-nikolaou.net. Also, Nikolas is coordinating the biggest students and teacher annual Conference about Natural Sciences that is a yearly conference in Cyprus with the participation of more than 1000 students and more than 300 teachers. He manages to coach a team of the organising committee and to make them all do well for 10 years now that is taking place the Conference starting alone and now has a big team to coordinate. Last 2 years he was in the management team for more than 30 KA153YOU and KA152YOU.

TRAINER: OLYA KHVASEVICH

Olya Khvasevich has experience both in formal and non-formal education and has been involved in youth work since 2013. She gets involved in creation and implementation stages of the educational events on the local and international level on the topics of personal development, active citizenship, participation, inclusion, arts and culture. Olya is passionate about theater and art. She participated in the troop of youth amateur theater "Insight" in Minsk (2017-2019), also taking part in a variety of workshops. She also took part in the long-term training course for trainers "Art of togetherness" (France, 2018), in order to improve facilitating skills and trainer's competences. After, in 2021 she studied Modern theatre in European College of Liberal Arts in Minsk, taking part in the performances on socially important topics. Olya strongly believes in the power of arts and non-formal education and the positive impact they have on people.

Boghos (Bobbie) Avetikian, support staff / Youth Worker/ Trainer

Boghos Avetikian is an Armenian Cypriot, who after achieving a BA in English and Communications at the American University of Armenia immediately got involved in Erasmus+ projects after graduating. After participating in 25+ projects, both Youth Exchanges and Training courses, Boghos soon got involved in facilitating and coordinating projects on his own, focusing on numerous themes such as sustainability, social entrepreneurship and inclusion. Boghos Avetikian loves jogging and music, and should be in Nicosia, you will probably see him running around in the afternoons with his earphones in his ears.