The OBESSU Pool of Trainers is a group of experienced trainers, educators and facilitators with insight in the world of OBESSU and school student activism. They are an active learning community with a key role for ensuring quality training, pedagogical development and training resource management in OBESSU. For each OBESSU event, members of the Pool of Trainers play a key role in developing the activity programme in the preparatory phase, in implementing it during the event, and in evaluating it afterwards. Members of the OBESSU Pool of Trainers are also involved as external experts in events organised by OBESSU Member, Candidate and Affiliate Organisations.

Our Pool of Trainers for 2026 is composed of 12 experienced trainers coming from different backgrounds: András Máté, Caridad, Clara Maria, Biel, Emilija, Frederik, Imelda, Maria, Mohammad, Patricia, Tavares and Viktor. Find out more about them here following!

Responsible Board Member: Ívar Máni Hrannarsson ivar@obessu.org

To contact the Pool of Trainers, please send an email to: pot@obessu.org

Meet our members

Junior Trainer - PoT Member

András Máté Mizera

Areas of expertise
Membership engagement and outreach, Organisational development, Policy creation processes

Languages
Hungarian, Spanish and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Caridad Alarcón Sánchez

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Policy and advocacy, Decolonising school curricula, School students’ rights, Inclusion and diversity. Working with people in a situation of a disability.

Languages
Spanish and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Emilija Bogdanović

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Organisational development, School students’ rights, Facilitating political debates, Advocacy and representation

Languages
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and English

Junior Trainer - PoT Member

Hannes Tauscher

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Funding schemes, School students’ rights, Social Media, PR, Project/Event planning and management

Languages
German and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

María Arroyo Ces

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Organisational development, Funding schemes, Knowledge management, Decolonising school curricula

Languages
Spanish, Galician and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Tavares Ferreira

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Policy and advocacy, Organisational development, Knowledge management, School students’ rights, Queer rights

Languages
Portuguese and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Biel Sánchez Oriol

Areas of expertise
Student participation, Policy and advocacy, Organisational development, School students’ rights

Languages
Spanish, Catalan and English

Junior Trainer - PoT Member

Clara Maria Velastegui Cabezas

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Policy and advocacy, Organisational development

Languages
Spanish and English

Junior Trainer - PoT Member

Frederik Bauer

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Policy and advocacy, School students’ rights,
Social-media marketing, Communication, Social-justice education

Languages
German and English

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Imelda Halilagić

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Organisational development, Decolonising school curricula, School students’ rights

Languages
English and Bosnian

Senior Trainer - PoT Member

Mohammad Naeem

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Membership engagement and outreach, Decolonising school curricula, School students’ rights

Languages
Urdu and English

Junior Trainer - PoT Member

Viktor Jakimov

Areas of expertise
Students Participation, Policy and advocacy, Knowledge management, School students’ rights

Languages
Macedonian and English