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E4SC Participants 2017

Filothei Matsigkou

Iosu Iribarren Lopez

Jacklin Eshaya

Ljubica Milutinovic

Luca Tarasco

Manthitan Sissoko

Othmane Benhlima

Romanos Rosemary

Samer Arkawi

Sawsan Samara

Simona Joveska

Zaid Souqi

Achref Chibani

Ahmad Yanal Wattar

Alexandre Khouri

Alyaa Abdelgawad

Anja Carapic

Ayadi Radhouan

Balsa Dukovic

Basant Motawi

Dalia Said

Damla Manav

Daniel Lind

Danilo Mirabile

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Achref Chibani

Achref Chibani is occupying the position of VET & Capacity

Building Officer in Skills to Succeed, a development organization

based in Tataouine and operating in South Tunisia , whereby he

has been performing different tasks including drafting copy for

articles , briefings and newsletters as well as ensuring the

organization's presence in a variety of Social media platforms.

Additionally , He is experienced in both proactive campaign-

driven releases and responsive communications.

Academically , Achref graduated from Manouba Faculty of Arts

where he obtained the fundamental license in English and the

Master degree in Translation (English , French & Arabic)

.Furthermore, He participated in numerous trainings including

IOSH Managing Safely, Communication, TOT & Sustainable

Development.

Tunisia

www.facebook.com/SkillstoSucceedTN

Enterprise name: Skills to Succeed

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Ahmad Yanal Wattar

Yanal Wattar is a Syrian architect graduated from Aleppo, he is a co-founder and director of

Alep studio.

Alep Studio is a design agency based in Cairo and Istanbul which aims to empower Syrian

brands, businesses and startups to grow in new markets and adapt to new communities and standards. it’s also helping them to take their

chances to globalize their brands.

Country: Turkey

www.alepstudio.com

Enterprise name: ALEP Studio

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Alexandre Khouri

Alexandre is a Lebanese-French national, he studied International Relations in Lebanon, Migration and Development in London. He worked with different

UN agencies and the ICRC on migration related operations.

In 2017 with a solid team of expert, he founded a social enterprise called the Levantine Institute of Tripoli in a working neighborhood of the North's capital of Lebanon. The LEVIT offers high quality

Arabic classes to foreigners and gives them opportunity to teach languages to underprivileged

children of the area. The LEVIT manages and finances an Education center welcoming 70 pupils everyday.

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Country: LebanonWebsite: www.levantineinstitute.com

Enterprise name: Levantine Institute of Tripoli (LEVIT)

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Aliaa Nour

Aliaa is an Engineer, Entrepreneur & Environmentalist, her biggest passion is

Environmental Engineering & Energy Management. It’s mainly how her JEREED started, innovating to

convert palm tree waste into environmentally friendly wood substitute. JEREED not only focuses on the environmental aspect, but also the social one as

well, we’re focusing on developing rural areas in Upper Egypt where JEREED is a part of its home

environment.She considers herself too old to be doing nothing for

humanity, too young to stop learning & try things out. My passion is first times. She’s too calm at first,

but later reveals childish energy & spirit.

Country: Egypt

Enterprise name: JEREED

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Anja Carapic

Anja is Environmental Scientist and sustainability advocate from Belgrade, Serbia. She is passionate

about creating sustainable communities, smart cities and empowering people to become positive change

makers in the society. Together with her Team they created UrbiGo- smart

vertical garden that allows everyone to grow their own fresh food in limited spaces and with no

previous knowledge required. Project is currently in prototyping stage and for the future, plan is to

employ women from socially vulnerable groups or give 1% of the annual profit to the specific social

cause in local society.

Country: Serbia

Website: urbigo.me

Enterprise name: UrbiGo

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Ayadi Radhouan

Description:Radhouan, graduate in computing and

management,work with the family farm since 2007 growing pears and olive. He cares about the

environment and nature. he started the biofire activity in 2015 by recycling agro forestry waste into

wood briquette, coal and compressed coal for heating and cookings needs. Always he is looking for

new ideas he started recently biochar production and he is developing a unit to produce biogas for his

house.Country: TUNISIA

www.biofiretunisia.wixsite.com/biofire

Enterprise name: BIOFIRE

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Balsa Djukovic

Folkk is a Serbian social business initiative that connects masters of traditional crafts with emerging

designers across Balkans - to create the highest-quality handcrafted products for your home. Our aim is to preserve centuries-long legacy of craftsmanship

of the Balkan artisans, by providing them with a steady income, as well as to give the locally designed

and manufactured products worldwide visibility through our online platform. We make sure to provide ethical and fair compensation to all the

people involved in the production and supply chain. Folkk is an initiative of Nova Iskra creative hub from

Belgrade, Serbia.

Country: Serbia

Website: folkk.co

Enterprise name: Folkk

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Basant Motawi

Basant Motawi, MD , MPH is a health & safety specialist who graduated from Johns Hopkins

university and has previously worked with the Ageing and Life course department with the World Health

Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

As a long time youth advocate with over 3300+ hours clocked towards community development and

engagement, Basant is the founder & CEO of Aspire a youth led social enterprise dedicated to ending

violence against women through performing arts.

Basant strongly believes that social work is about people at its core. she aspires to advance policies that

empower women through her work.

Enterprise name: Aspire

Country: Egypt

www.aspire.com

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Dalia Said

We host unconventional camping experiences outside of the city bringing together leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate

teams and people who make things happen for a connective, reflective and habit changing experience.

Our programming is holistic in that it engages the mind, body and soul of our delegates. This format on the one hand allows the group to think of both their work more strategically and

their lives more long term. And on the other hand allows deeper networking for introverts and extroverts a like.

Country: Egypt

Website: www.elre7la.com

Enterprise name: ElRehla

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Damla Manav

Damla is a Turkish MSc candidate in Business

Economics with Marketing Track living in Ghent,

Belgium; in the meantime doing a Marketing

Analysis internship in Brussels. Her main

interests are centered around the fields of social

change, amateur photography and environmental

activism. Together with the Talkative Team, she

strives to diminish boundaries against freedom of

expression on the digital platforms, fill the

generation gaps, cultural disparities,

forejudgements. This is aimed to be achieved

through a sharing platform without limitation to

ideas, terms of use, payment methods.

Country: Belgium

Website: https://www.talkative.land/

Enterprise name: Talkative Land

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Daniel Lind

Daniel is a social entrepreneur with a passion for disrupting existing system and global equality. He has

lived across the world and speaks six languages fluently. After running a social enterprise in Malaysia

Daniel found his calling within social entrepreneurship and eventually founded Lettuce

Grow.

Lettuce Grow is a platform which connects small scale farmers directly to SMEs based on proximity,

with a food waste based logistics system we are able to provide free/very low cost logistics to farmers and

increase their profits by 3-4x to rebuild local rural economies.

Country: Portugal

Website: lettuce-grow.com

Enterprise name: Lettuce Grow

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Danilo Mirabile

Danilo is an Italian Entrepreneur. He is

passionate about social projects to improve

people life in emerging markets. Thanks to his

commitment in reaching the Global Goals of

United Nations he is now Italian Ambassador in

the Youth Parliament in Nepal. He is also a

member of the prestigious Kairos Society,

organization that select the best entrepreneurs

under 26 in the world. The main goal of his

company, Beentouch, is to give people in

emerging markets the opportunity to use simple

technology to communicate even in bad internet

conditions and low performances devices.

Country: Italy

Website: danilomirabile.com

Enterprise name: Beentouch

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Filothei Matsigkou

Filothei is a Career & Personal Development Coach and Co-Founder at LeadCompass. She has created dozens of personal development programs and has trained over 2.500 young people in Greece, Romania, Germany & Ghana. She has been a speaker in 75 events including the TEDx organization.

The mission of her Enterprise is to help young people in Greece transition successfully from education to employment and build a career that they would be excited to get up in the morning. LeadCompass every day strives to contribute to the 4th SDG, Quality Education.

Country: Greece

Website: leadcompass.gr

Enterprise name: LeadCompass

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Iosu Iribarren Lopez

Iosu specializes in international development cooperation. He has worked for the Spanish

institutions in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Brussels, and now participates in capacity building

projects in Latin America and the Maghreb with CEDDET Foundation.

His father, Jesús, runs a small industrial business back at home, which began with an environmental

concern. In his daily management, the precepts of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda seem to be

unintentionally applied. But there are still some challenges that can be overcome...

Country: Spain

Enterprise name: VISERPAL

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Jacklina Eshaya

Jacklina is the co-founder of Beinco, a social venture

that facilitates transformative entrepreneurial

workshops to enable communities and organizations

to realize their collective intelligence and co-create

positive change.

Jacklina has a lot of experience facilitating personal

and group processes through non-violent

communication, music, peace building techniques,

dragon dreaming, open space, biographies,

sociocracy and more.

In the past 11 years Jacklina co-directed a co-

existence project in Israel, managed and facilitated

the first Ashoka changemakerXchange for social

entrepreneurs from Israel and Palestine, volunteered

at a rape crisis center, facilitated women circles and

had a radio show about Social Activism.

Country: Israel

Website: www.beinco.org

Enterprise name: Beinco

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Ljubica Milutinovic

Ljubica is an architect and management specialist but as founder/designer of NITI strives to create unique

pieces and bring art into people’s home. NITI products are symbol of the long family and Serbian tradition of

handweaving and the idea of NITI to keep this tradition through contemporary design and traditional

methods of production. This project aims to encourage the employment of vulnerable groups

(women, elderly, unemployed), preserve traditional craft and put regional spirit into regional economy by creating contemporary Serbian brand. Afterall when people appreciate the intangible values of their own region, they are happier with the place where they

live.

Country: Serbia

Enterprise name: NITI Designed kilims & blankets

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Luca Tarasco

Luca studied Philosophy in Torino, Conceptual Design

at DAE in Eindhoven and got a full grade MA in Design

at Domus Academy in Milano.

He developed few digital projects that won

entrepreneurial awards as WCAP grant by TIM, EXPO

2015 grant by Regione Lombardia, Mob App Award

from SMAU and many others.

Together with his team they are working on HUBility,

a platform of social and job innovation that includes

disabled people in its governance, making them

promoters and developers of solutions able to help

them and other people in the professional self-

realization context, as well as in day-by-day routine

and social inclusion.

He loves road trips and flying at dawn.

Country: Italy

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucatarasco/

Enterprise name: HUBility

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Manthitan Massita

SISSOKO

Manthitan has more than four years of successful

experiences in the non-profit and public sector. She has

supported the implementation of number projects in the

area of youth development, youth mobility and education.

She holds a Master's Degree in Globalization, Spatial

Dynamics and Sustainable Development in Southern

Countries from Paris-Sorbonne University

She is awarded with the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship

2017 and GPSD Youth leader 2016.

She is focused on the topics of education, social

entrepreneurship, ethical fashion, and women

empowerment.

Manthitan and her team are working on the social

entrepreneurship project “Onzurna”- a Social StartUp

incubated at Espace Bidaya, which aims to empower

marginalized women while giving them a decent job and

empowering their financial situation to become

independent through the production of an ethical,

environmentally friendly line of fashion using smart fabrics.

Country: France

Website: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ONZURNALabel/

Enterprise name: Onzurna Label

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Othmane Benhlima

Othmane is a social entrepreneur with an engineering background. He is the co-founder and CEO of Echo-Heat, a social business that believes in making our consumption responsible again.

Eco-Heat is a bag that adopts a slow cooking technology that finishes the cooking process without additional usage of energy. Put your meal on fire for 15 minutes, then put it inside the bag and let if finish cooking for 3 to 4 hours. This allows families living in Rural areas to reduce their wood consumption by 55%, and the ones living in urban areas to reduce cooking gas consumption by 75%.

Country: Morocco

Website: www.eheat.org

Enterprise name: Eco-Heat

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Rosemary Romanos

Rosemary is an electrical engineer and the CEO and co-founder of SunRay Energy, a social impact start-up

with a mission to end energy rural poverty in Lebanon.

SunRay Energy provide rural household with a solar system on a lease-to-own basis. The system provides the household with the same energy as the current

generator’s subscription fee however at a lower price. After the payback period, the homeowner will

benefit from electricity.

Country: Lebanon

Website: www.sunrayenergy.me

Enterprise name: SunRay Energy

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Samer Arkawi

Samer is a student of economics and a Syrian refugee in Slovenia has a dream of making a change of the situation which Europeans in

general and Slovenians in specific are living in together with refugees and migrants and

foreigners and turn the disadvantages of this cross point of cultures, backgrounds, knowledge, experiences, skills, abilities, diversity capabilities,

energies, creativities, productivities, and put them together in its optimized innovative

investment structure

Country: Slovenia

Enterprise name: Smile

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Sawsan Samara

E-xplore-R defines unique exploration, and soon

electronic exploration. An ancient Palestinian palace

has been restored to become a symbol of tolerance,

growth, and rural modernization. The project’s first

phase will 1) re-create the village's gender sensitive

social and tolerant history by creating a museum 2)

create jobs through a guesthouse 3) revive traditional

successful skills and 4) mainstream unique

educational activities from Nisf Jubeil village.

Sawsan Samara, a Social Anthropologist with 12 years

of experience in the development sector, has always

been a traveler, looking for unique adventures.

Today, Samara is combining her different interests

through this social venture.

Country: Nablus, occupied Palestinian territories (oPt)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/AbdelHamidPalace

Enterprise name: E-xplore-R

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Simona Joveska

Simona is Engineer and MA of Management in Biotechnology and former Implementer of HACCP in Macedonian Scientific Society in Bitola, founder of

Lootus J Center for consultations and education and NGO Lootus J New Beginning, where apart from a manager, she also works as a consultant and math

teacher.

Her mission is to provide opportunities for vulnerable groups for better future, through training and courses,

enabling them to acquire working abilities with a direct boost to their socio-economic status and active

involvement in the social life.

Republic of Macedonia

lootus.mk

Enterprise name: LOOTUS J

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Zaid Souqi

In 2014/15, Zaid Souqi, completed his MBA from IE Business School where he spent 3 months of his MBA consulting a foundation in Johannesburg that cared

for orphaned and vulnerable children. This experience combined with the circumstances facing his country, Jordan, sparked the idea of The Orenda

Tribe. The Orenda Tribe is a lifestyle brand that features children’s art from refugee camps & less fortunate communities on its products, mainly t-shirts, and

aims to use ART as a tool to spread hope and empower the people of the same communities.

In Feb 2016, Zaid quit his job as the GM of a logistics company and been working on The Orenda Tribe

since then.

Country: Jordan

Website: www.theorendatribe.com

Enterprise name: The Orenda Tribe