Kristina Cernousovaite

Current occupation

free-lance trainer, free-lance journalist, free-lance filmmaker

Work experience

2011 06 01 – 06 04
Coordinator and organzer (on behalf of CIIC) of a short project based on sharing experience and building parnership between 2 Palestinian organizations that came to Gran Canaria: PYALARA (Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and & Right Activation www.pyalara.org) and JUZOOR: (Jerusalem Youth Parliament www.juzoor.org) and 1 Canary organization that works for solidarity and sensibilization of Palestinian case in Gran Canaria (Mujeres por la Paz y Acción Solidaria con Palestina www.mpaspalestina.org) Gran Canaria, Spain
2011 05 24 – 05 29
Project Manager & Coordinator of the International Youth Exchange ¨Hand in Hand for Friendship” (Mano a Mano para Amistad) within “Youth in Action” program, Action 3.1. Activity dates 24-29 of May, coordination was done on-line approximately 7months before and 2 months after the activities dates. Participants: 50 youngesters from 10 countries: Egypt, Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Spain. Event was organized by an NGO ¨CIIC¨ in Gran Canaria, Spain
2010 12 02 – 12 04
Trainer at the National Training Course ¨Participating in Europe¨ organized by Canary Islands Government (Gobierno de Canarias) and local Spanish National Agency of the ¨Youth in Action¨. Las Palmas, Gran Canaria island, Spain
2010 11 25 – 11 27
Trainer at the National Training Course ¨Participating in Europe¨ organized by Canary Islands Government (Gobierno de Canarias) and local Spanish National Agency of the ¨Youth in Action¨. Santa Cruz, La Palma island, Spain
2010 11 12 – 11 22
Working in close cooperation with an Ecuadorian NGO “Kondorloma” on their ongoing projects: movie/documentry making, fundrising, projects aimed on preservation of National Park Cajas. Ecuador
2010 06 26 – 08 20
Educational Adviser & Trainer, worked in introducing non-formal education methodology to the formal education institution for the event “English Language School 2010 – Summer English Course” at Private Ismail Kaya Educational Institutions (Primary, Secondary, High School). Konya, Turkey.English courses were mixed with Quran courses due to religious orrientation of this school and were held even during 2 months including 2 weeks of the Ramadan month.
2010 04 11 – 04 13
Trainer at the National Training Course ¨Participating in Europe¨ organized by Canary Islands Government (Gobierno de Canarias) and local Spanish National Agency of European Program ¨Youth in Action¨. La Laguna city, Tenerife island, Spain.
2009 11 01 – 04 01
Project Manager & Coordinator of the Internatinoal Training Course ¨Canary Islands: Citizens Towards a United Europe¨ (Canarias: Ciudadanos Rumbo a Una Europa Unida) within “Youth in Action” program, Action 4.3. Activity dates 7-13 of February, coordination was done on-line during approximately 5 months. Participants: 30 youngesters from 12 UE countries including Turkey as a program country. http://ctue.ideasdecolores.org/ Organized by NGO ¨CIIC¨ in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2009 12 19 – 12 28
During my work in Turkey I took 10days off in order to implement another project, on behalf of the Spasinh/Canary Association CIIC I traveled to Palestine and Israel aiming to meet and establish new partnership with Palestinian and Israelis organizations & especially informal groups of young people for the future colaboration in short & long term youth projects. The objectives were reached. As a result of this new cooperation we had Palestinians and Israelis youngesters participating in our project (2011.05.23/29 YiA Action 3.1. “Mano a Mano para Amistad”), and other projects that are submited and waiting for approval (YiA Action 3.1. “PASOS” as a part of long term projct between Spain and Palestine).
2009 10 15 – 2010 01 17
Educational Adviser, methodologist worked on introducing non-formal education methodology to the formal education institution for English classes at Private Ismail Kaya Educational Institutions (Nursery, Primary, Secondary, High School). Konya, Turkey
2009 09 18 – 09 23
Trainer at International training course “YOUrope needs YOU!” within “Youth in Action” program, Designing the training program & delivering sessions for future multipliers and trainers. Organizers: AEGEE-Krakow, Poland
2009 06 20 – 08 15
Educational Adviser & Trainer worked on introducing non-formal education methodology to the formal education institution for the event “English Language School 2009 – Summer English Course” at Private Ismail Kaya Educational Institutions (Primary, Secondary, High School). Konya, Turkey. English courses were mixed with Quran courses due to religious orrientation of this school.
2009 03 30 – 04 03
Trainer: Designing and delivering training sessions during the 1st National Indian Student Forum, organized and supported of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India. The forum created a platform for the academia, industry and the students to come together to improve the Engineering Education System in India. It witnessed a participation of over 90 students from 18 institutes across the country. India
2009 03 05 – 03 09
Trainer: International Network Meeting NWM-Valletta ´09: Giving lectures on fundraising possibilities for young people. Organizers: AEGEE-Valletta, Malta. Project funded by EU program “Youth in Action”.
2009 02 20 – 02 25
Trainer: International training course “YOUrope needs YOU!”: Designing the training program & delivering sessions for future multipliers and trainers. Organizers: AEGEE-Krakow, Poland. Project funded by EU program “Youth in Action”.
2009 01 26 – 02 01
Trainer: International event Study Session with a topic of “Time Management and Youth Participation”: Designing a Study Session and giving lectures on Time Management and Youth Participation. The event was hosted at the European Youth Centre of Budapest, Organizers: international organizations Co-operation and Development Network in Eastern Europe (CDN) and Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG). Hungary.
2008 10 25 – 11 02
Trainer: International training course “Summer University Project School”: Giving lectures on development of intercultural youth summer university courses. Organizers: AEGEE-Leon, Spain. Project funded by EU program “Youth in Action”.
2008 10 21 – 26
Trainer: International training course “YOUrope needs YOU” : designing and delivering training for future multipliers and future trainers. Organizers: AEGEE-Passau, Germany. Project funded by EU program “Youth in Action”.
2008 08 02 – 06
Trainer: International Seminar “European Cooperation on Gender Equality”: designing and delivering a training for young people, which will be promoting and setting a network of European level cooperation in gender equality issues. Organizer: “Jovenes verdes”; San Rafael, Spain. Project funded by EU program “Youth in Action”.
2007 08 10 – 15
Trainer: "Seminar on media" in frames of the "Crossroad: opening the European door for local youth organizations". Delivering training sessions and teaching young people about the documentary and movie making. Project funded by EU program “Youth”. Lithuania.
2006 07 08 - 21
Trainer: Training course about Journalism for children (10-16years old) from the orphanage. Children were introduced to the elementary basics of journalism & trained how to gather information and to write different kind of journalistic works such as: short information messages, reportages, and different kinds of interviews. Project funded by private foundations. Lithuania
2006 – 2007
Responsible for Public Relations of the European Youth Campaign of Diversity, Human Rights and Participation ¨All Different – All Equal¨, employed by the Department of Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania (www.visiskirtingivisilygus.lt)