TRAINERS

Karina CHUPINA

Karina Chupina is a freelance international trainer, consultant, and writer from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Karina has authored articles on themes of disability, minority participation, mass media, human rights education, culture and social inclusion. She is the only trainer with a disability in the international Trainers' Pool of the Council of Europe Youth Sector (www.coe.int/youth). Her educational background is in International Journalism (St.Petersburg), International and European Relations & Management (Amsterdam).

Karina continues her postgraduate education in Political Science & Sociology (St. Petersburg and Berlin) and in her free time, enjoys carefree bicycling, theatre, and dancing.

Karina is deeply involved with local disability youth organisation and IFHOHYP, the International Federation of Hard of Hearing Young People, and serves as its President. She has been project leader for several of such international projects and training programs, as "Integration through Arts and Education", "Disability and Sport", "How to Make a Campaign on Hearing Disability", "Building Communication for Hard of Hearing Youth: Breaking Down Barriers and Stereotypes", the Russian Deaf Art Exhibits and more.

Claire ÖZEL

Claire Özel is Disability Support Coordinator at the Middle East
Technical University in Ankara.

During the 12 years she taught English, she was involved in developing
ways to improve the inclusion of students with a range of disabilities
in foreign language learning. From 2002 she began to follow the
progress of disabled students in their university departments, thus
developing concepts of disability support within Turkish institutions
of higher education.

In January 2007, Claire led an EU project (Leonardo da Vinci) in which
representatives from 5 universities and a ministry visited the
University of the West of England (Britain), returning to Turkey with
material to set up an inter-university network for Disability Support
Coordinators. Claire is the moderator of the e-group linking
representatives from 22 universities (11.12.2007)

Claire has taught a course on 'Working with disabled learners' at the
Educational Sciences Department, METU, in which disabled people
interacted with students to develop better understandings of how social
perception, assumptions and actions create disabling situations, and
how awareness (of both disabled and non-disabled people) can lead to
solutions

In her spare time, she is involved in an ecological project near
Ankara, and when possible shares the challenges of origami. Her love
of travel is now enriched by projects, as visits become more
purposeful. She speaks English, French, Turkish, and bits of other
languages...

www.engelsiz.metu.edu.tr

M. Volkan MÜDERRİSOĞLU

M. Volkan Müderrisoglu (29) is a free lance trainer from Turkey. He has been doing Trainings based on Non Formal Methods for more than 7 years. He is also actively working in youth field and in civil society since 13 years old.

As a trainer, His special topics are European Youth Programmes, Global Youth Works, Creativity, Youth active participation, Non Formal Learning and Inclusion. He is one of the trainers of Turkish National Agency (NA) since its establishment in 2002.

Volkan is one of the creators of a module training course about “inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities” that has been organised by turkish N.A in april 2007. It has also taken part in 2008 plans of turkish NA but this time in international level. And an other module training course called “Inclusion for Short term EVS” has been created by him and ll be held in 2008 in different countries such as Turkey, France, Estonia and Romania..

In his free times, if he can find some, he appreciate going to see artistic performances or making creative music with his friends. Especially drama is a very important value in his life. He often uses drama technics in his Non formal methods as a person who has been doing theatre for 17 years amateurish.