Thomas Duchini is a graduate in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation and with a Master in Development and International Cooperation.

The rights of children and groups at social risk, such as migrants, refugees and LGBTI + people, have always been the object of his interest.

Thomas has participated as a volunteer in international cooperation projects with schools and educational centres in Africa and Brazil and here in Catalonia he has worked with associations that defend human rights.

Currently he combines his activism with his work as an Italian and English teacher.

Thomas was member of the coordinators team of the Living Libraries project and currently member of the Board of AHEAD.

thomas@aheadedu.org

Elisenda Vera is a young architect graduate, and designer of edutainment gamified activities. In parallel she has a long experience in the world of non-formal education and human rights education.

She has participated in multiple projects in the European field, including representation activities in the Council of Europe, and at the World Forum for Democracy.

Elisenda has been the leader of youth exchanges in the European area and has been a developing member in the "GainKids: Global Education for early child education" project.

Currently, she is leading the team on the "Remembrance of totalitarian regimes" project, developing edutainment methodological tools.

She is currently a member of the Board of AHEAD

Elisenda@AHEADedu.org

Bet has a degree in Political Science and Public Management, and she is specialized in International Relations. Thanks to her experiences abroad, her interest grew on international politics, and especially, on a European level.

Her migration and human rights concerns took her to do her internship with us, and she is currently part of AHEAD’s Team. Together with other member of the team, they work to manage, coordinate, and execute several of our European projects, like the CLAP - CERV Project and Towards Inclusive Europe, among others.

She is currently a member of the Board of AHEAD

bet.gamell@aheadedu.org

Maria Arrufat is a feminist, humanist, anthropologist by training and mediator by vocation. She likes to accompany people in their changes and help them improve their relationships.

A little more than fifteen years ago she started her path in mediation. It was in the penitentiary field where, as an intercultural mediator, she learned the first tools of transformative conflict management. Since then, during her professional career she has shared several projects and been part of several teams, with a common denominator, mediation in the municipal sphere, which has allowed her to acquire a community view of social problems. She currently works as a secondary school educator and  is member of the Board of AHEAD

mariaarrufat@AHEADedu.org

Eva Navarro is a social educator and teacher of secondary education. She combines her profession with illustration and art therapy, and works on the development of human rights education through art.

Eva has collaborated on several AHEAD projects, and is part of the coordination team of the European Project: New Era - New youth work practices on refugee inclusion. She is currently a Board Member of AHEAD.

Eva@aheadedu.org

Xavier Baró is projects' coordinator and educational advisor of the Association of Human Rights Educators. Xavier has over twenty years of experience in the educational and youth fields as a trainer. He combines the work at European level with the local activism in Barcelona.

As a trainer and educational advisor Xavier Baró collaborates on a regular basis on the development of Training activities for the European Commission, the Education Department and the Youth Department of the Council of Europe; and the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue among cultures.

xavierbaro@aheadedu.org

Tejitu Tort is a student of International Relations. Thanks to Erasmus she has become aware of her interest in cultural issues, and how they impact on the dialogue between communities.

Currently, during her internship at AHEAD, she aims to deepen her knowledge on human rights and international relations, while also beginning his professional journey in this field

As for the future, Tejitu hopes to gain more professional experience in order to get on track. In addition, she wants to spend some time abroad in order to continue learning.

Sara El Habib is a student of International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

She has participated in youth projects that promote leadership, international dialogue, and active participation. She was also part of forums and conferences, contributing to debates on human rights, sustainable development, and social progress.

Currently doing her internship at AHEAD, she aims to deepen her understanding of human rights education and explore the different areas of practice within the field.

This experience will allow her to build a solid foundation for a career in human rights and international relations, combining her passion for the field with a commitment to learning and contributing to meaningful initiatives.

sara.elhabib@aheadedu.org

Paula Moll is a student of International Relations at the Universitat Auònoma de Barcelona. In 2025, she participated in the European Erasmus+ programme, which took her to Germany for a semester, where she had the opportunity to study in an international environment and enrich herself with the perspectives of people from different nationalities and backgrounds.

She is currently doing her university internship at AHEAD, with the aim of deepening her knowledge and gaining her first professional experience in the field of international relations. She has a special interest in human rights, gender equality and environmental protection, fields in which she aspires to continue her training and actively contribute to their promotion and defence.

Lucia Carrasco is a Sociology student who, from a very young age, has been interested in feminism, the LGTBI community, migration and youth, always with an intersectional and critical perspective, which has also led her to become involved in the field of human rights.

During her degree, she has discovered a growing interest in managing social and community intervention projects, an area in which she would like to specialise in the future. This interest is complemented by her desire to engage in the defence of human rights and the construction of a more fair and inclusive society.

In her free time, she is interested in drawing and painting, as well as recording and editing audiovisual content. She also enjoys reading and watching documentaries, interests that allow her to broaden her knowledge and maintain a critical view of reality.

She is currently collaborating with the AHEAD association, providing facilitation work on different projects, with the aim of gaining first-hand insight into the various fields of action and dissemination of human rights, and acquiring experience in the professional field of sociology and social intervention.

lucia.carrasco@aheadedu.org

Coordinators Team Expressions in Dialogue

Project Description Expressions in Dialogue: Innovative youth work practices on refugee inclusion through Living Libraries

Coordinators Team Not Alone in Europe

Project Description Not Alone in Europe: Intersectional youth work on refugee inclusion

Coordinators Team Citizens Cohesion

Project Description Citizens' Cohesion and Community Mediation Project

Ramon Tena (andorra@AHEADedu.org)

I have a degree in Political Sciences.

I’m a mediator and trainer in conflict transformation. Two years ago I left my job as a Diplomat to start a social entrepreneurship project. Its main objective is to promote culture of peace within organizations.

I also work in Human Rights Education, both nationally and internationally. I have participated in different projects of the Council of Europe and the Youth in Action program.

At present, I’m following credentialing process for the Council of Europe’s Pool of Trainers.

andorra@aheadedu.org

Thomas Duchini is a graduate in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation and with a Master in Development and International Cooperation.

The rights of children and groups at social risk, such as migrants, refugees and LGBTI + people, have always been the object of his interest.

Thomas has participated as a volunteer in international cooperation projects with schools and educational centres in Africa and Brazil and here in Catalonia he has worked with associations that defend human rights.

Currently he combines his activism with his work as an Italian and English teacher.

Thomas was member of the coordinators team of the Living Libraries project and currently member of the Board of AHEAD.

thomas@aheadedu.org

Núria González i Duch, graduated in International Relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is Coordinator of International Projects; currently working at Esplais Catalans. After doing her internship at the association, she now collaborates on several international and local projects in AHEAD.

In the future, she would like to continue training in the field of human rights and international law. This interest was enhanced by his Erasmus year at Sciences Po in Strasbourg, as it provided her with a small introduction to the institutions of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

nuria.gonzalez@aheadedu.org

Maria has almost ten years of experience working in the third sector as trainer, project manager, translator and interpreter, and a few more as a volunteer and activist in social movements. She has worked with minorities, women and children.

Maria worked on Human Rights and Education for Peace in Palestine in 2006, with children from a refugee camp in the West Bank. Since then she has been involved in social projects which bring together both sides of the Mediterranean and in the struggle for a fair peace in the Middle East, as well as in the promotion of intercultural dialogue and social justice back home. Maria was a member of the translation and editing team for the "Petit Compass" manual. Maria was President of the Association of Educators in Human Rights, and she is currently a consultative member in the advisory board.

maria@AHEADedu.org

Marina López is an educational psychologist and teacher

specialised in children with special needs, and counsellor in a public secondary school. Currently she focus on students with an immigrant background.

Marina started her cooperation with AHEAD by joining different on local and international level related with Human Rights Education (HRE).

She has always felt a strong motivation to work close to communities in social risk of exclusion. Currently she is working and strengthening my skills as a teacher in a state school in Catalonia. Marina wants to get to know and get personally involved in other practices on the educational field in different places in the world, so that she can both personally and professionally develop from these experiences.
Marina was Vice-President of the Association of Educators in Human Rights, and is currently a member of the advisory board.

marina@AHEADedu.org

Meritxell Vidal studied Pedagogy and combined her studies with her passion on environmental projects and in constant contact with education.

Meritxell has worked in education from different perspectives: organising courses, being a trainer and coordinating educational, volunteering related, projects. She is a trainer on environmental education, ecotourism, youth leaders, and training of trainers with different audiences and ages. Nowadays she is working as an English teacher with younger learners.

Meritxell works and lives in Terres de l'Ebre, in the south of Catalonia.

projectes@aheadedu.org