Elina Moraitopoulou

Ashoka Staff
Elina Moraitopoulou
POEM PhD Candidate & UK Changemaker Schools Community Lead, Ashoka UK & Ireland

Elina is a PhD candidate at the Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) EU-Horizon 2020 project where she works with UK Changemaker Schools researching how children and young people participate in public memory making for the envisioning of educational futures; she is also the Community Lead for the UK Changemaker School network. Elina has a background in education and life sciences and has worked in social innovation projects in the fields of K-12 education, lifelong learning and citizen science. In 2018 she has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship. Elina launched for the first time the global secret gig project Sofar Sounds in Thessaloniki, Greece, which run between 2015 and 2019.