Helena Järvi

Helena Järvi works as lecturer and international coordinator at SeAMK /School of Health Care and Social Work. She graduated from the University of Tampere as a Master of Social Sciences with a specialization in social work. She has worked in municipal social work offices, hospitals and family guidance clinic as a social worker and as an instructor of family day care in Finland, and also in international development tasks. At SeAMK she has worked permanently as a lecturer since 1997 and as an international coordinator since 2002. Her teaching fields are social work and intercultural issues.

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Vida Jakutienė

Address: Universiteto 9/1, LT–01513 Vilnius
Phone: +370 5 2667621
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Violeta Gevorgianiene

Violeta Gevorgianiene is an associate professor and researcher at Social work department, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University. She studied educology and social work. Specializes in rehabilitation of disabled, sociocultural identity, community work. She is the member of Experts' Committee at the Ministry of Science and Education for integration of disabled children. Participated in many international projects.

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Laimute Zalimiene

Laimute Zalimiene is an associate professor at Social work department, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University. Her subjects are: History of social work, Social services, Management of social institutions. She also works at the Institute for Social Research and specializes in social policy, development of social work and social facilities' market.

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Pieter Lievens

Pieter Lievens is an associate professor and researcher at the Social Work department of Kempen University College in Belgium. He is educated as a sociologist and specialized in European Social Policy Analysis. He has done research in the fields of: women in vulnerable labor positions, participation of low class people in Community Based Organisations, satisfaction among users of labor counseling services and in elderly care. He is a consultant for municipalities on local social policy planning. He has expertise in the design of e-learning environments, he coordinates an IP about the methodology of Active Learning and is involved in many international projects.

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Karen Lavrijsen

Karen Lavrijsen is an associate professor at the Social Work department of Kempen University College in Belgium. She is educated as an occupational and organisational psychologist and specialized in competence management. She teaches a course in general psychology and groupdynamics. She also does research at the education department of Kempen University on professionalism in childcarejobs in Flanders. Lifelong learning and development, in a creative way, are the keywords of her interests and work.

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Katrien Verelst

Katrien Verelst is an associate professor at the Social Work department of Kempen University College in Belgium. She is educated as a linguist (Dutch/English) and teaches a course in business communication.

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Liina Käär

She works as a project manager at Pärnu College, University of Tartu. She has graduated the same College in 2002 and her speciality was Social Work and Administration.

Now she is studying Sociology (MA) at Tartu University. She also works as a lecturer at Pärnu College. Her topics are Sociology and Voluntary Work in Social work. Liina also works in Tõstamaa Manor where she manages local museum and community projects.

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Gabriele Franger - Huhle

Gaby Franger is a vice-dean at the faculty of Social Work and Health of the university of applied sciences Coburg in Germany. She studied History, German, Sociology and Politics and parallel to field research projects pedagogic (Diplom). PHD (Dr. phil) about intercultural-adults-education. She teaches perspectives of human rights based social work, intercultural and international social work and community development.

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Maja Schauder

My name is Maja Schauder, I¨m 23 years old and I¨m studying Social Work in my 8th semester. In my free time I like the theater and reading, but most of all travelling. In my vacations I used to be in some part of the World with my backpack. I worked twice for at least half a year in Bolivia and learned a lot about the living together of different cultures. At this workshop I will participate as a tutor and hope we¨ll exchange some interesting opinions and experiences about interculturality, so that all of us will advance on a personal and professional level.

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Sinikka Volanto

Sinikka Volanto is a lecture of social policy at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland. She has graduated as a master of political science in University of Turku. She has long experience of management of social services in public sector. In Seinäjoki UAS she has worked since 2000 as a teacher and as continuing education manager. Specialities as a teacher she has organization of social services, management, entrepreneurship and evaluation on the social field.

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Silvia Fargion

Silvia Fargion is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She holds a PhD in Social Work from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Edinburgh (2001), a Degree in Psychology from the University of Padua (1985) and a Diploma in Social Work from the Milan Social Work School (1977), where she also lectured between 1983-1996.

Her research interests include social workers' professional cultures and social welfare organizations. She has also developed substantial experience as a professional social worker in the area of young people and families, and as a consultant to public and private social service units. Her work has appeared in The British Journal of Social Work (2003), The Journal of Social Work (2006), Social Work & Society (2007) and International Social Work (2008), as well as in many Italian outlets. Her last book Il servizio sociale storia temi e dibattiti (Social work, history themes and debates) was published by Laterza (Bari) in 2009.

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Kristiina Järvi

Kristiina Järvi works as a lecturer at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland/ School of Health Care and Social Work. She has graduated from the University of Jyväskylä as a master of Social Sciences.  She has worked in family guidance clinic as a social worker and as a teacher at the University of Jyväskylä. At Seinäjoki UAS she has worked permanently as a lecturer since 1997.  Her specialties as a teacher are social work and special education.

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Marja-Liisa Saariaho

Marja-Liisa Saariaho is a lecturer at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences/School of Health Care and Social Work. She graduated from the University of Tampere as a Master of Social Sciences with a specialization in social work. She has worked as a social worker in guidance centre for mentally disabled clients, in hospital and in family guidance clinic. At Seinäjoki UAS she has worked permanently as a lecturer since 2003. Her teaching fields are social work and especially social work with mentally disabled persons and rehabilitative social work.

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