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Bio
France De Borggraeve joined the Future Worlds Center in June 2022 for 2 months as an intern. During this internship, France works under the mentoring of Mr. Yiannis Laouris. France is 20 years old and is studying in Lille (In France) in a business school called ISG. In this school she learned to use tools like Photoshop, Canva, Pack Office and InDesign. Moreover, she followed differents subjects like mathematics, finance, English, communication and marketing...
Contributions
As part of JUMPSTART the Peace, Adira co-coordinated and implemented several workshops across the island for Turkish and Greek Cypriot youth. In this capacity, she (1) planned lodging and travel logistics, (2) recruited participants by writing press releases and speaking at a local school, (3) facilitated a panel discussion on youth community activism, (4) met regularly with the implementing partner NGO to plan project activities, and (5) developed training materials on environmentalism and intercultural learning.
For Civil Society Acts Beyond Borders, Adira traveled to Israel/Palestine and implemented capacity building workshops to support the development of joint community action projects among Israelis and Palestinians. While in the region Adira met with several civil society organizations to recruit participants. Other duties included: (1) writing narrative reports, (2) researching funding opportunities, (3) writing content for the project newsletter, and (4) creating digital media to be used for promotional materials.
As part of TeachMDGs, Adira wrote textbook content to educate youth on Millennium Development Goals advocacy campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. She also assisted in the planning and facilitation of Structured Democratic Dialogues for the project CARDIAC, and created accompanying digital media. In addition, Adira created digital media for the project Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center.
Adira contributed to several other administrative assignments for Future Worlds Center. She compiled the organization's annual reports for 2009 and 2010, and wrote project proposals to the European Refugee Fund and the European Centre for Modern Language.