About myself
Following @lucian who’s leading by example, I come from Cluj and now based in Bucharest as I was waiting for some time to work with EdgeRyders in Romania (!) I’m a graduate in social science research who during university was doing all sorts of extra-curricular projects in the non-profit sector and traveling for Erasmus, summer schools and unpaid traineeships… I documented my very typical story of a graduate with what seemed to be no future here. I was lucky enough to meet @nadia & @alberto while we were starting the EdgeRyders project (originally funded by the European Commission and Council of Europe) and then spinning it off into a social enterprise, which is the umbrella under which we’re working today in various parts of the world and trying to get more people into meaningful work. Young people need to invent this work because it’s hardly available, which is what I did and suddenly grew on me - found natural abilities for community management and going farther than that, I’m now passionate about designing social architectures that most of the time enable rather than offer solution x. It’s too hard for any one of us to come up with fix-all solutions to problems in our local communities, so what we do as community builders is creating the space for those solutions to emerge out of citizens diversity, passion and willingness to get things done without asking for permission. Hopefully the workshop will get us all on the same page. If only we can achieve that after 2 months since we started, I think we can call it a win for the time being. And after that, designing the next phase… 