Das Team

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Kerstin Oschmann, or the founder and manager of InCo Trento. The association was created by her together with a group of friends in 2004, with the aim of promoting international volunteering opportunities at that time still little known in Italy. The idea of engaging in the field of intercultural exchanges was born after a period of voluntary work in Mexico and took shape after having achieved a Masters in Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Berlin. In the early years she coordinated the various voluntary and international exchange programs and managed all the administrative aspects of the association. Today she is mainly involved in the strategic development of InCo, implementing new programs and projects and establishing new partnerships.

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Luigi Balacco is one of the founders of InCo. Youth Worker, with a degree in Political Sciences, he is mainly the coordinator of the Molfetta office, where he deals with the coordination of international projects, administration and strategic development. He maintains relations with local and international partners in order to implement projects and activities useful to respond to the needs of the territory and the target groups. After taking part in mobility projects such as Socrates/Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, EVS/Youth and Grundtvig, he has coordinated numerous Youth and EVS exchanges in the Erasmus+ area.

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Stella Gelmini has been working at InCo since 2015 and holds a degree in International Studies. Currently, she coordinates the association and takes care of international mobility orientation activities and intercultural training activities. She has designed, written and coordinated several youth exchanges financed by the Erasmus + program. To meet Italian and foreign students living abroad, to observe and share their emotions/achievements and to have the opportunity to get in touch with different cultures: these are the aspects that motivate her work to InCo.

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Federica Taraboi collaborates with InCo since 2017. She met InCo in 2015 thanks to an high-education course which had the aim of the creation of an interactive website for the promotion of international mobility opportunities. She studied Philosophy at the University of Trento. Now she manages outbound volunteers, Vol'Au pair programme, MTV and coordinates the communication of the association.

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Diego Chitarrini, after graduating in Economics and Management and working 5 years in his family business, he decided to focus on Social Enterprises, his passion. Since then he has been studying and working in Trento as a freelance Project Manager and Consultant, focusing especially on youth projects regarding civic engagement and global citizenship. He's also passionate about digital, data and design!

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Anya Ivanova is involved in youth work and international mobility projects since 2011. She collaborates with InCo since May 2018, being responsible for supporting EVS volunteers hosted by InCo and by other organizations in Trentino Alto Adige. Anya also works on project design and sometimes supports the implementation of the youth exchanges organized by InCo. Having MA in Cultural Anthropology, she is passionate about intercultural learning and communication and she believes that nothing easy is worth doing. 

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Patricia Dragan has been collaborating with InCo since September 2018 as a coordinator of various international volunteering programs and as an Erasmus+ project designer. In 2010 she participated in her first youth exchange in Romania and fell in love with the international cooperation world. Shortly after, she began working with European funds on environmental education topics in countries around Europe such as Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, but also outside Europe, in Argentina and India. Her favourite quote is from Lao Tzu: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

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Neus Iranzo has a degree in Political Science and a Masters in "Intercultural Competence and Management". At InCo she mainly deals with the administrative and accounting part.

She is very happy to be part of an international team such as InCo that deals with communication and disseminates intercultural values. First of all, because she believes that the use of words can make the difference and, secondly, because she believes that interculturality does not only serve to live in a more just and respectful world but that it is above all a source of personal growth.