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            Prof. Michal Molcho (ENCOUNTER Co-Supervisor), Dept. of Children's Studies, NUI Galway


            Prof. Michal Molcho, Head of the School of Education and founder of the Department of Chil
            @University of Galway, Ireland is a world-renowned expert in the sociology of children and

            founded the Department of Children's Studies at NUI Galway in line with the UN Convention 
            of the Child: the only such department in Europe with a child-centred, multidisciplinary p
            Currently, she serves as a Head of the School of Education @University of Galway.




            Doc. Gabriela Seidlová Málková, PhD.

            Gabriela is a supervisor of the ENCOUNTER project and IF fellowship. She is a founder of t

            of Psychology at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (ENCOUNTER Host Institution). S
            a vice-dean for research at the same School. She is an expert researcher in educational an
            psychology, specialising in literacy and its impact on children's social exclusion/inclusi

            experience conducting studies as a principal investigator in developmental psychology in E
            Czech-funded projects and have a long experience supervising PhD fellows. She has co-autho
            on youth mentoring in the Czech and international context. Her expertise in tackling depri

            creating conditions for positive change in education, and developing methodical tools for 
            are particularly relevant in supervising the ENCOUNTER project. She will provide advanced 
            current psychological theories on children's development in a social context and in method

            developing intervention materials/programmes for school children while co-authoring ENCOUN
            and other outputs. She has long-standing collaborative relationships with several Czech pr
            which will facilitate access to research participants during the fieldwork of the ENCOUNTE


            Ms. Szilvia Simon, Head of the Mentoring Europe ENCOUNTER partner organisation is an exper
            evidence-based practice and communicating research results to mentoring stakeholders acros

            the Head of the Mentoring Europe. She is also a director of the bi-annual conference Europ
            Summit for mentoring stakeholders across the EU. In the ENCOUNTER project, she is an impor
            who will facilitate the intersectoral transfer of knowledge, networking, dissemination, co

            and exploitation of the ENCOUNTER results and future collaborations among youth mentoring 
            professionals, academics and researchers, and the lay public across the EU.


            Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship no. 101027291. The ENCOUNTER pro
            funding H2020 MSCA-IF-EF-ST grant no. 101027291: ENCOUNTER: Experiences of youth in natura
            relationships. The project started on 27th September 2021 and lasted until 26th September 

            cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101027291 [ URL "http://. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/

            Department of Psychology, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities Charles University in Prag

            project is hosted as an H2020 MSCA IF Research project at the School of Liberal Arts and H
            (Faculty of Humanitities) at Charles University in Prague.
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