Nikolas Nikolaou (Project Manager)

Nikolas Nikolaou (president of NGO ACPELIA) plays a central or peripheral role in every project with his expert knowledge. Due to the fact that he is successful as a coach and organizer in his personal life as we can see from the small CV that follows he is going to have 2 evenings training of youth workers about his experience in coaching.

President of our Organization (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.

Evelina Ablaeva (Management and Training Team) 

Evelina Ablaeva has got bachelor and faculty of management and psychology and bachelor degree in a field of English translation at Kuban State University. She has been participating and organizing Erasmus+ and local projects for 3 years and works as a trainer, facilitator and project manager in the organization. Evelina has an extensive experience as a youth leader having different target groups: children, teenagers, students, youth workers and expreriensed NGO owners. As well as orginizing youth projects she had been an ESC coordinator.

Apart from that she has organized more than 10 workshops and trainings for teenagers and youth on different topics.

Last period she started cooperation with NGO ACPELIA in Cyprus for the implementation and training of Erasmus+ project that are been and are going to be approved in Cyprus and other countries for 2023.

Boghos (Bobbie) Avetikian, support staff / Youth Worker

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.