Monika is the head of the training team and will answer all your questions about the Leadership Academy, from topics, dates, accommodation to the application process. She graduated in teaching academic subjects (pedagogy – citizenship education) and started volunteering alongside her studies. Her journey as a volunteer began at an international volunteer camp in Slovakia. She later completed training for leaders and led summer camps in Slovakia for 5 years. After participating in the training for trainers, she became a member of the training team. She has been working at INEX since 2016. She started as an EDS coordinator and head of the training team. She is currently in charge of the Leadership Academy, international volunteering camps in Slovakia and representing INEX and the interests of volunteering at work meetings in Slovakia and abroad, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the Slovak Youth Council. Among her favorite training topics are multicultural learning, motivation, conflict resolution and communication.
Katka started her volunteering journey as an animator at children’s camps. She discovered INEX in 2016 and through it participated in several projects in France, Estonia and Slovakia. After completing a course in the management of leaders of international volunteering camps, she decided to try leadership and led projects in Prešov and Slatinka. He has been in the training team since 2020 and focuses mainly on study parts and communication, game theory and leadership. She graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava, currently works in auditing and accounting.
Peťo‘s first volunteer project was a youth exchange in Banská Štiavnica in 2011. Since then, volunteering has been his great passion. He participated in 3 workcamps and training for trainers abroad. In 2012, he completed training for leaders, after which he led more than 10 workcamps, and since 2014 he has been a member of the training team. He represented INEX in the international organization Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations as a member of the working group for environmental sustainability, which he later led. He mainly deals with the topics of leadership, communication, motivation and conflict resolution. He studied geography at the Comenius University and currently works for Dell as a data center price analyst.
Zuzka first participated in an international volunteer youth exchange in Levice in year 2008. Later, during her university studies in law at the University in Bratislava, she participated in several summer camps in Spain, Italy and Philadelphia. There she also tried leadership for the first time. She then continued to lead at the INEX camps in Slovakia. Zuzka works at company IBM, where she manages the sales support team. She currently works as a member of the training team. Among her most favorite topics are communication, leadership, intercultural relations, conflict resolution. She likes traveling, sports, books.
Romana studied international relations at the Metropolitan University in Prague. She currently works for Lenovo as an operations manager. In her free time, she does sports (cycling, tennis, running, alpine skiing, yoga), likes to travel, plays the piano and generally enjoys going beyond her comfort zone and pushing her limits. Romana’s volunteering journey began in cooperation with the Youth Council of Slovakia, where she participated as a training facilitator within the European program “The Activist Network”. She has been part of INEX’s training team since 2024. Among her favorite topics are leadership, effective time management and mind maps.
The guarantor of the accredited program
Barbi is the guarantor of an accredited educational program, she graduated as a teacher of general education subjects (pedagogy – English language and literature) and at the same time majored in social pedagogy. She came to INEX in 2000. Her first workcamp was in France. Subsequently, she started leading camps in Slovakia and later worked at INEX as a coordinator of the European Volunteer Service. Later, she was in charge of sending Slovak volunteers to different activities abroad and she also tried position of the head of the office. After that, she was in charge of international volunteering camps in Slovakia and leader training in Slovakia, as well as leading the training team. She currently works at INEX as a project coordinator of the European Solidarity Corps. You can also meet her at the Leadership Academy.
