cREating a Safe sPacE for inClusiviTy, sexual and ReprodUctive 

Our Team

Our Team

Nikolas Nikolaou (Project Manager)

Nikolas Nikolaou (president of NGO ACPELIA) plays a central or peripheral role in every project with his expert knowledge. He is successful as a coach and organizer in his personal life..

President of ACPELIA (Mr Nikolas Nikolaou, physics teacher in high school, BSC, MSc in Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens and MSc, BSc in the University of Cyprus at Physics department) has previous experience by taking part in many seminars and actions related to Environment, Non-Formal Education, Entrepreneurship and Discrimination. He organized and participated in more than 20 European programs which are doing with Non-Formal Education (KA105, KA205, KA229, Youth In Action) as well as several local environmental and Science projects with groups of young people, many of them can be found in his website: www.nikolas-nikolaou.net. Also, Nikolas is coordinating the biggest students and teacher annual Conference about Natural Sciences that is a yearly conference in Cyprus with the participation of more than 1000 students and more than 300 teachers. He manages to coach a team of the organising committee and to make them all do well for 10 years now that is taking place the Conference starting alone and now has a big team to coordinate. Last 2 years he was in the management team for more than 30 KA153YOU and KA152YOU. 

Victoria Tkachenko, Educator, Activist & Youth Worker

Victoria Tkachenko is an educator and youth worker from Latvia, Riga. She has more than 5 years of experience as a project manager and youth worker in NGO Young Folks LV, and in 2023 started her job at the first LGBTQ+ organization in Latvia, "Mozaīka". She is also human rights activist focused on feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Professionally, Victoria is an experienced specialist in the field of digital media marketing and educational content creation on Tik Tok and Instagram. She graduated from the University of Latvia with a master's degree in communication science and Media (Mg. sc. Com.). Her master thesis "Narratives of Russian-speaking youth of the Latvian LGBT community: dual minorities" was presented at the 80th International Conference of the University of Latvia, as well as at Riga Pride 2022. Since 2021, Victoria is the main coordinator of the lecture cycle "Sex Ed": she is organizing lectures and workshops about sexuality education and reproductive health for youth and their parents. In 2023, she and her team received a grant from EU for a Solidarity project to make a platform about inclusive sexuality education in Latvia. Victoria has taken part in more than 20 Erasmus+ projects, completed EYE volunteering and ESC team volunteering in Spain, at NGO Globers. She has been facilitating sessions at various training courses: a session on photography & activism (KA2 "International Dialogue on Migration" (2022), Spain), a session on dance improvisation (KA1 "Move On" (2022), Spain), a session on digital LGBTQ+ activism for youth workers and NGOs (KA1 "Gender Enders 3" (2022), Spain). She was also a project manager for several projects: KA1 "Gender Enders" (2022), Spain, ESC teams volunteering "CoMARnity", Spain.

Erma Georgiou, Trainer

Erma Georgiou, gained a BA in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens, and then graduated from the drama school of G. Armenis.She is also registered as a yoga and meditation teacher from Yoga Alliance Institute and has attended various seminars on theatrical techniques such as physical theatre, voice lessons e.t.c.But, she is always searching ways to empower people and finding therapy through arts and therefore she attended drama therapy lessons. She has worked with children of refugee background in Elix N.G.O at Athens and she attended to the workshop "Facilitate Teachers using the arts in working with groups'' from P.Y.E organization and she was impressed by the creativity of the process as well as the potential of arts to empower people.At the moment,she is working as a school assistant empowering students with social and educational difficulties,she is also teaching drama lessons to kids and adults in the afternoons and empowering through drama activities people with mental health needs in the psychiatric ward of the Limassol hospital.She has a great passion in the development of individuals as well as groups, and this is the reason that she decided to collaborate and become a trainer at the NGO Acpelia. Last year,she also been trainer in 2 projects of Acpelia in Cyprus, (Mental Health under Crisis Period and SICALS-Self-Improvement and Coaching as Life Skill) and this year is going to be trainer in another three projects (Innovation through Thinking out of the Box,Re-Connect with Nature protecting the Environment and Improvement of Mental health after a lock down).She also loves to travel,to meet new people and learn new things.
Marina Georgiou has studies in Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and in Creative writing. Her interests is mostly in mindfulness coaching, meditation and writing books. Her dream is to be a successful published writer and influence the world by her books. She has been in various erasmus projects with Acpelia organisation and working as a youthworker she says its life changing and gives you the opportunity to give knowledge and also gain and be part of a positive impact to the world.

Boghos (Bobbie) Avetikian, support staff / Youth Worker 


Boghos Avetikian is an Armenian Cypriot, who after achieving a BA in English and Communications at the American University of Armenia immediately got involved in Erasmus+ projects after graduating. After participating in 25+ projects, both Youth Exchanges and Training courses, Boghos soon got involved in facilitating and coordinating projects on his own, focusing on numerous themes such as sustainability, social entrepreneurship and inclusion. Boghos Avetikian loves jogging and music, and should be in Nicosia, you will probably see him running around in the afternoons with his earphones in his ears.


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