GSmart Specialists

GSmart Specialists

GSmart Specialists

Dr. Kevser Çınar

Kevser Çınar holds a Ph.D. degree in Tourism Management from Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. She is an assistant professor at a university, and she is a vice director of EKSINOVA. She has also been working as an EU Projects expert for 14 years, and she has taken part in several different international EU projects so far-gained a good understanding of what is required of a project expert both in Turkey and in Europe. She is experienced enough in writing projects, implementing its activities, and coordination of projects. She is also certified at the curriculum development program by the Institute of Educational Sciences. Her project and research topics are about innovation, consumer behavior, adult education, and branding. She has been working on international Erasmus+ higher education strategic partnership projects such as TOURBAN (as coordinator), TOURIBOOST (as coordinator), and SCOUT, E-GAME (as a partner), she is experienced enough on designing training programs, developing MOOC courses and Business Models.

Dr. Cemile Doğan

Cemile Dogan holds a Ph.D. in education programs. She has actively taken part in local and national projects based on the impact of generational change and its impact on the education sector. As an instructor, lecturer, and member of EKSINOVA, she imparts a clear understanding of how generational demographics are changing the teaching and learning experiences. She has provided research and consultation on generational issues to educational organizations. She has attended some cross-generational leadership workshops at the local and national levels, creating opportunities for all to learn from each other. She has also worked ina national project about generational diversity focusing on the cross-generational workplace, and education often leads to higher levels of innovation and drives results.

Müesser Bozbay

She graduated from the department of Business Management at Usak University in Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Fusun Gulderen Alacapınar

She graduated from the department of Economics and completed her MA and PhD in Educational Programs and Teaching at Hacettepe University in Turkey. She has worked for several reputable universities such as Hacettepe University, Gazi University and Selcuk University. She has taught Ph.D. level courses in curriculum development and scientific research methods. She has co-authored a textbook about creative learning while authoring another one and has published several articles in the field of youth education. The development of functional skills for a youth entrepreneur, creative learning, coaching for youth are her main research interests. She is also an expert in developing training programs for education purposes.

GSmart Specialists

GSmart Specialist

Daniel Weiss

Daniel Weiss is a SCRUM Master, certified trainer in LSP, Business Model You, Systemic Organisational, and Liberating Structures. He holds GIS as a degree in Meteorology and is a post-graduate in Urban Planning.

He created many innovative training workshops, implementing transversal methodologies such as Lego® Serious Play®, Business Model YOU, Agile, and Gamification. He is one of the co-authors of Business Model for Teams. He has trained educators, facilitators, coaches, curators, young entrepreneurs, and adults reloading their personal and business life under different European projects.

He has designed an innovative training for the GSmart project. It is a combination of System Thinking, LEGO® Serious Play® Agile, and Liberating Structures.

GSmart Specialists

Grzegorz Sikorski

He graduated from the Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, specializing in vocational guidance and job placement and postgraduate studies at the University of Economics in Katowice – Management, specializing in Local authorities in the European relations.

Since 2003, he has been associated with the Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice, as a specialist dealing with restructuring the Huta Częstochowa, Manager of the VLO branch Częstochowa, Deputy Director of this office, and since 2014 – Director of the Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice.

Since 2008, academic staff at the Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, where he conducts classes in social work, vocational counseling, and labor market. For 12 years, he has been cooperating with the Hochschule der Bundesagentur fur Arbeit in Mannheim (HdBA), conducting joint projects and teaching activities.

He has extensive experience in the preparation, implementation, and management of international projects (e.g., "ACADEMIA" project held under Leonardo da Vinci Programme, "Universal model of professional course for new age childcarers dedicated for women aged 50-64 years", "Innovative counseling promoting the participation of people aged over 50 in the labor market and social life", "NICE" and "NICE2", "DICBDPEC," "Brain Drain - Brain Gain," "Trainings of public employment services as the key to success").

The author of the adaptation of the "case management" method to the working conditions in the Silesian Region's selected local labor offices. Since 2015 – Chairman of the EURES-T Beskydy Steering Committee – cross- border partnership among the Slovakian, Czech, and Polish labor market institutions.

He is the Member of the Silesian Expert Forum and the Silesian Council of Vocational Education appointed by the Marshal of the Silesian Region.

Grażyna Walasz

She is a sociologist, Head of Department of Labour Market, she has gained professional experience during over a fifteen-year work in the Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice in the field of cooperation with local labor offices and labor market institutions. She carried out projects in the framework of the European Social Fund, Leonardo da Vinci, INTERREG IIIA. She also has experience in recruitment and human resources management and postgraduate studies in vocational guidance and extensive experience in research and labor market analyzes.

Monika Hepner-Jaworska

The Head of the Centre for Information and Career Planning, deals with job mobility issues within the EURES network and guidance framework. In the Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice, she has gained experience in the implementation of international recruitment projects, engages in cross-border partnership EURES-T Beskydy on the border between Polish, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. She cooperates in the execution of projects within the framework of the ESF, Erasmus+, EaSI.

Dr Monika Kowalczyk-Gnyp

Since 2015, she has been employed as a senior provincial inspector in the Team for Statistics, Research, and Analysis of the Voivodeship Labor Office in Katowice. As part of her professional work, she deals with statistical analyzes, design, implementation, labor market research supervision, and research reports preparation. She is a participant in six editions of the nationwide survey "Occupation Barometer" carried out since 2015 in the Silesian Voivodeship, acting as a moderator of expert panels and participating in preparing survey reports.

Ilona Wiącek

She is a sociologist and Labour Market Programmes Specialist with over 11 years of experience in preparing and implementing projects. She has worked under the Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus+ Programme, and Interreg. Responsible for the comprehensive implementation of projects at all stages, including monitoring, evaluating, maintaining documentation, disseminating results, and reporting. She has a postgraduate diploma in European project management.

Experienced advisors

They provide methodological and training activities, vocational guidance, and vocational information in the VLO Office headquarter and outside, in other institutions, such as in schools and higher schools, entrepreneurship support center, occupational therapy centers, and social welfare centers, local labor offices.