Olgica is a lawyer and human rights/child rights expert She has been engaged since 2010 in the field of human rights and child rights in particular, with the focus on protection of children from all forms of violence, sexual exploitation, combating phenomena of missing children, child trafficking and alternative care of children. She served as the Coordinator of the Southeastern European Center for Missing and Exploited Children (the EPLO Expert on human and child trafficking in several EU funded projects, International Cooperation Coordinator 2 nd Vice President of the Austrian National Section of FICE International Olgica was the UNICEF trainer in Austria for Front line workers on child protection standards/child protection in emergencies and a member of the UNICEF led WG for development of Minimum Protection Standards for asylum centres across Austria She worked as Senior Child Protection advisor at the Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Serbia, and is a member of the Board of FICE Europe.
CONCORDIA Social Projects has set its goal to enable children to grow up happily to have independent lives. CONCORDIA gives them a safe home and opens up future chances for them through a well-founded education. It supervises, advises accompanies and helps quickly and directly in emergency situations. CONCORDIA supports families and brings them back together. In acute crises it offers children a secure possibility to grow up in a family-like environment with dependable caregivers in our facilities.
Sharon Schneider is affiliated amongst others with the Siegen University and INDOSOW (International Doctoral Studies in Social Work). She co-wrote studies on transcultural school social work practice and on implementation of the UN CRC.
The Austrian National Coalition was established in 1997 on behalf of the first supplementary report on the Report of the Federal Republic of Austria to the United Nations. Focal points in their work are: education, youth welfare, unaccompanied refugee children, participation, child poverty, Federal Constitutional Law on the Rights of the Child, coordination, juvenile justice, violence, integration/migration, education on children’s rights, prevention, protection of children, children with a disability, health, international cooperation, child trafficking, child pornography and child prostitution, children and armed conflicts, international adoptions.
Raluca has almost two decades of experience working with national and international organisations. As a former Director of CONCORDIA Social Projects, she contributed to Eurochild work for years long as well as working at SOS Children’s Villages earlier. After stepping down from CONCORDIA, she would like to continue the cooperation with Eurochild as an individual expert. She is a committed children’s rights expert and has extensive knowledge on developing strategies and policy frameworks and managing the social sector. She is based in Vienna but she has been contributed to the development of the Central and Eastern European region with her work and she has strong ties to her origins, to Romania.
