Simone Cesaro
Mentor

After a few experiences in community projects, youth work and group processes, Simone is currently living in the transitional community of Sunseed, in Southern Spain, where he takes care of gardens and people. He has experience writing and coordinating international volunteering projects as well as non-formal education opportunities for young people, especially in the framework of European funding like Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps. Currently, he is focusing on training skills in Group Facilitation and mentoring young people in groups individually and in groups to support their learning process.

Silvia Corna
Mentor

Silvia Corna is a multilingual professional fluent in Italian, Spanish, and English, with additional proficiency in French and Portuguese. She specializes in Erasmus+ KA1 projects, focusing on Youth Exchanges and Training Courses.

Her areas of expertise include nature connection, permaculture, agroecology, community building, authentic expression, and traditional ecological knowledge. She employs a learning-by-doing methodology, guiding participants through hands-on experiences and providing continuous feedback on applications. Additionally, she offers feedback calls to support project development.

The financial aspects of her engagement are flexible, with economic proposals tailored to align with project needs and budget.

Eponine Sels
Mentor and Trainer

Eponine Sels started as a youth worker being involved for more than ten years in the educational movement for young people “Les Scouts” in Belgium. She gets inspired by the values that scouting is promoting and keeps empowering young people with skills to create a better world. After getting a degree in Agricultural Sciences, she is following her childhood dream to become a farmer. For the last 7 years, she has been living in the Ecovillage of Zajezova where she is the supervisor of ESC volunteers in a small farm that follows permaculture principles. She has experience working with Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects. She organised a few youth exchanges on the topic of nature conservation and social changes and training about project creation. Her interests are permaculture, resilience and simple living. She likes to share and learn from others.

Mali Boomkens
Mentor and Trainer

Mali Boomkens is an experienced project evaluator and mentor, specializing in KA152, KA153, KA210, and KA220. She has worked as an external evaluator for the Dutch National Agency and has hands-on experience writing KA153 projects.

Expertise & Focus: She supports KA152 and KA153 project design and writing, offering KA2 guidance from an evaluator’s perspective. Her key topics include nature connection, environmental education, social permaculture, regenerative living, embodiment, community building, and conflict resolution tools (e.g., NVC, dragon dreaming, theater of the oppressed).

Collaboration & Availability: Mali is flexible 1-2 months before Erasmus+ deadlines and prefers daytime work, with evening calls if needed. She offers 1-1.5 hour calls and recommends an initial meeting at least 1.5 months before deadlines.

Communication & FeesPayment: Either 1% of project budget or a fixed amount (€200-500), depending on project scope. Quick communication: Signal/Telegram; email for key updates.

Petra Jazbec
Mentor and Trainer

Petra established an association for a sustainable way of life in Slovenia called Zavod Veles. She has lived for 13 years on a social-permaculture farm as one of the founders and co-creates the place.
She studied to be a primary teacher, but her heart brought her to learn from others and pass on knowledge and experiences about sustainability.
She is a permaculture teacher, focusing on social aspects, but bringing a holistic way of life to her projects. Facilitating courses, events and activities about community life, project design and sustainability is her passion. She is a coordinator and mentor in many youth projects. As a trainer, she is coworking with the National Agency and she entered the pool of trainers.

Rosanna Bellomo
Mentor and Trainer

Rosanna Bellomo is an experienced facilitator, trainer, project writer, and coordinator with 10 years in Erasmus+. She specializes in youth exchanges and training courses on sustainability, ecology, active citizenship, activism, and advocacy. Since 2019, she has written, facilitated, and organized 25+ successful projects across Italy, Spain, Poland, Latvia, Albania, Turkey, and Morocco. She has worked as a campaign coordinator for Parley for the Oceans and Greenpeace Italia and co-founded MOH APS (Bari, Italy) and the Clean Up Italia network (70+ organizations). She also supports international youth environmental teams like GYBN and YOUNGO and has been a YTS mentor since 2023.

Work Preferences

Focus Areas: KA152, KA153, KA210, training courses, and youth exchanges.
Tools: Google Docs (applications), Zoom/Jitsi (meetings), WhatsApp/Telegram (instant communication)
Availability: Wed–Sat, 14:00–21:00

Maria Luisa Garachana
Mentor and Trainer

Since I can remember myself, I dreamed of creating a different world, where it wasn’t always mandatory to work in the same place, to earn a salary that would allow me to pay. I studied Occupational Therapy, and specialized in psychiatry. In the beginning, I combined my passion for taking care of people, with my philosophy of a self-sufficient life, in community and in union with nature. For the last eight years, I have travelled and lived in various communities, and I have devoted my life to showing that another world is possible. For this, in the last six years I have been professionally dedicated to developing projects within the Erasmus + program, to finance training focused on this purpose, personal, community, sustainable and artistic growth.

Elizabeta Z Jovanovska
Mentor and Trainer

Elizabeta Z. Jovanovska is a seasoned professional with 15 years of experience in project design, implementation, facilitation, training, and mentoring within KA1 and KA2 projects.This year, she is focusing on KA2 initiatives related to life skills, environment, ecology, transition, work that reconnects, radical imagination, future design, eco-arts, authentic relating, permaculture, and human-centered design.She offers mentoring, facilitation, training, and strategic advice, adapting her support to the needs of organizations and specific project scopes. Collaboration can be virtual or in-person, with a strong emphasis on co-design and effective project management.

Baldesca Moner
Mentor and Trainer

Baldesca is a project manager and a facilitator. She has a background as project manager in start-up companies and international R&D projects in the field of renewable energy and sustainability. She holds two master’s degrees in industrial engineering and energy systems. She is also a certified yoga teacher and moon dancer. She studied nutrition, healing and women’s empowerment from different traditions and communities around the world. In the past 6 years, Baldesca has lived and worked at Ängsbacka, a community, retreat and festival centre in Sweden covering different festival management roles, managing Erasmus + projects and facilitating dance workshops and circles. At the moment, she is also part of an emerging ecovillage in Spain.

Katja Štemberger
Mentor and Trainer

Katja has a background in Civil engineering, sustainable tourism and social work with marginal groups. Her passion towards nature, humans and inclusivity escalated further after her acquaintance with permaculture and the ecovillage movement. She is active as a Permaculture and regenerative holistic designer, mentor, facilitator, teacher and project coordinator. Her motivation is empowering on a national, regional and international level through personal and common growth connecting with nature whisper.