The Team

The success of this pioneering programme at UWC Maastricht relies to a great extent in the inspiring team of 12 Secondary and Primary staff who decided to embark in this project already last year. In June 2015 we all attended an intense 3-day training with Lorena Silvestri (UWC Adriatic alumna), who is an experienced youth social entrepreneurship facilitator and coach and has collaborated with Ashoka Spain for many years developing and testing methodologies to engage youth in dreaming the impossible and turning their ideas into real projects.



We all have differing degrees of previous experience with social entrepreneurship and the reasons to join the team where different too but we had in common the excitement of wanting to try something new at UWC Maastricht which, we believe, will have a great positive impact in our students and the local community in the near future.

Encouraged by the Student Life & Experiential Education Director, Tian Bersey and the Head of College, Peter Howe, we began our journey of discoveries and trials on 9th September 2015.

This is the first time a programme delivered to students, facilitates a process integrating both Secondary and Primary at UWC Maastricht, thus even in this regard, this Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) programme is innovative and promising.

 

Thanks to the pioneering YSE Facilitators Team at UWC Maastricht for making it possible: Ajay Hirani, Anita Broer, Annemarie Oomes, Carla Robinson, Colin Hogan, David Hart, Edward Omondi, Iva Horejsi, Joey in 't Panhuis, Katinka Mastboom, Olaya García and Ulrike Jongen.

Olaya García - YSE Programme Coordinator