Advisory Board | Net Edu Project

Liz Todd

Position: Advisor UK

Professor of Educational Inclusion at Newcastle University. Liz engages in research with a strong social justice agenda, being known for her work on the interaction between communities and schools, the engagement of young people in development and research, and respectful democratic approaches to change (personal and organisational). Liz is Deputy Director of SOLE Central and a member of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching. She is ‘Learning for Change’ theme champion in Newcastle University’s Institute for Social Renewal and Director for Engagement and Impact in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences.

Jacob Torfing

Position: Advisor Denmark

Professor at the Department of Social Science, in Roskilde University. He is Director of the Centre for Democratic Network Governance and Co-director of CLIPS project (Collaborative innovation in the Public Sector). Jacob’s research is focused on changing forms of governance, in particular the role and functioning of partnerships, governance networks and their democratic problems and potentials, and Collaborative innovation in the public sector.

Peter Miller

Position: Advisor USA

Profesor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peter studies leadership, collaboration, and organizational change in complex environments. Much of his work –including that which addresses education in contexts of homelessness– is situated in settings where individuals and/or organizations from different sectors attempt to work together toward achieving some specific end(s). I consider how collaborative planning, implementation, and outcomes are affected by issues such as leadership, organizational culture, and social capital.

Ramon Almirall

Position: Advisor Catalonia

Psychologist, psychopedagogist advisor of the Generalitat de Catalunya, familiar therapist and professor in the University of Barcelona. Almirall has been a coordinator of the Interxarxes Program(a network of Health, Education, Social Services and other community services of the district of Horta-Guinardó of Barcelona), and is nowadays a member of the Technical Committee of this program.

Marcel·lina Bosch

Position: Advisor Catalonia

Head of Department of Services to People in the town council of Sant Vicenç dels Horts, in which she has work more than twenty years as responsible for the Education Service. In this municipality Bosch has contributed to the consolidation of a local educational network that has allowed to design a local device of School to Work Transition that has work with very good results since 1997.

Josep Torrico

Position: Advisor Catalonia

Josep manages the Marianao Foundation (2006) where he works since 2003 as a youth advisor and coordinates training teams. He designs and leads programs in the area of training, orientation and the school to work transition. The Marianao Foundation is an entity stablished at Sant Boi de Llobregat compromised with the change, the improvement and social transformation (www.marianao.net).

Salvador Avià

Position: Advisor Catalonia

He has worked for several years in the positive development of youth from an intercultual, empowerment and community perspective. Avià has worked for twenty years in the town council of Badia del Vallès in Educational Area, Social Inclusion and Community. Ha has also created a program integrated of social and inclusive policies. He is one of the founders of Rizom association, which has developed an open model of extensive guidance for teenagers in social risk.

Xavi Campos

Position: Advisor Catalonia

He is the manager of the team of the School of Social Educators of Catalonia and advisor of projects and initiatives of several educational, social and cultural institutions. He has worked as sociocultural designer and cultural manager in the Sociocultural Association “Gresca” and has been general coordinator of the magazine Quaderns d’Educació Social of the CEESC. Campos has obtained several awards for the presentation of projects from sociocultural area.

Mònica Ribera

Position: Advisor Catalonia

Ribera has worked during more than fifteen years as educator of children and teenagers in the neighborhood of La Mina in Sant Adrià del Besòs. Since 2006 she manages the Platform of Social Education of Salesians Sant Jordi-PES La Mina. During her trajectory she has taken part in the community board and nowadays she is member of the work group that runs the Educational Project of the Neighborhood of La Mina.