Scola de Valori

School of Values (Scoala de Valori) is a non-profit organization founded in Romania in 2010, whose goal is to build characters by engaging young people and teachers in non-formal education projects with themes such as entrepreneurship, art, financial education and personal development. In 12 years of activity, the organization had 60000 young participants from 700 high schools covering 80 cities with the help of 60 non-formal educational projects. Scoala de Valori challenges the status-quo in education. At School of Values, we use different educational patterns such as workshops, coaching, camps, gamification and challenges, role plays and free talks/activities, practice-learn step-up methodology, online interaction and webinars, face to face interaction and preparation, interaction with companies, mentors and young professionals with the goal to increase personal responsibility for young people ages 10-24. The mission is to guide young people in learning how to become the creators of their own lives. The vision: In any and all possible futures, success belongs to those who are not afraid to explore their potential, learn to self-improve, work with other generations and actively seek opportunities to transform society and secure the wellbeing of present and future generations. The composition of the organization includes a management team, project managers for each program, a financial department, a human resources department, a grants department, a communication and marketing department and a research department. The team is mainly composed of experienced workers (more than 5 years in the field they activate in) with good communication and team skills. The organization`s work is a constant transition between office work and field work, our team consists of project managers, trainers, coaches, communicators, etc., and brings together more than 20 core team people, in 2021 we had over 70 external collaborators and over 200 volunteers.

 

Silvia Bogdan, President

Coordinating the Executive board of Scoala de Valori - a former engineer by profession, experienced in managing teams and consultancy, with over 30 years of experience in learning and educational design in the corporate domain as former HR Manager of a multinational company, and business partner of a training and consultancy company. Expert in designing financial education programs and part of the top 10 influencers in financial education in Romania in 2021. Part of the multinational team dedicated to piloting the SELFIE and DigCompEdu methodology in Romania - has dedicated her passion for education for the last 9 years in working with Scoala de Valori to contributing to upgrading the educational system in Romania.

 

Dragos Belgudanu

Executive board member in Scoala de Valori i - business administration professional - with approximately 20 years of activity in the field of youth, experienced in youth programs as part of the National Board of the biggest student lead organization in Romania and globally, with exposure to the European institutions as the EU Parliament Intern, experienced in HR consultancy and employer branding, former CSR executive in one of the 5 international Banks in Romania, laureate of the EUSIC prize in 2018 as coordinating the winning team for Romania with the Career Bus - career guidance concept. He has dedicated his passion for education for the last 12 years to working with Scoala de Valori for mobilizing the resources in upgrading the educational system in Romania.

https://scoaladevalori.ro/