People

The TiPovej! team wants to change society for the better, open space for ideas, encourage creativity, and motivate people.

MA Sonja Čandek

director

She loves working in teams, developing ideas into projects, and contributing to changing lives for the better.

In the field, you can meet her as a trainer, lecturer, educator, youth worker, and as an evaluator of quality standards for NGOs.

She enjoys multicultural and creative environments and is always full of pedagogical optimism.

At TiPovej!, she conducts training sessions and participates in other creative projects.

She is the co-founder and leader of TiPovej!.

Urška Česnik

program coordinator and facilitator

Always smiling, optimistic, and colorful.

By profession a psychologist and educator, whose passion and challenge are people.

At heart a youth worker, who directs her many years of experience at domestic and international levels mainly to the areas of social skills, communication, conflict resolution and transformation, development of creative and critical thinking, and career planning through the Personal Development Model tool Business Model You.

Open to diverse, even crazy ideas.

Leader of youth workshops and camps, youth exchanges and seminars, recently she also directs her energy toward empowering various projects and organizations within the youth sector.

Employee representative on the Institute Council.

Marina Bilić

president of the Institute Council

Heartfelt, warm, open.

Nature and animal lover.

Advocate for young people and children, fighter for human rights, and connector between formal and non-formal educational sectors.

Marja Guček

member of the institute council

Always in good spirits and open to new things.

Before becoming director, she was a youth work specialist. At the Youth Cultural Center Maribor, she was a youth work specialist.

She excels at leading both prominent domestic and international youth projects as well as organizational management.

She's inspired by travel, good food, and the sea.

MA Špela Gorjan

member of the institute council

Social worker and experienced youth worker, full of energy and always focused on solutions.

She deals with social skills training, assertiveness, and knowledge and experience transfer at the international level.

She is an excellent graphic recorder. She works at the Center for Youth Assistance.

She's inspired by travel, music, pencils, and motivated people.

Matej Feguš

youth mentor, member of the institute council

A traveler through life. He creates, lives, enjoys! Water in all its states is his ecosystem.

On earth, he's held by creativity at DONAR company, where he writes the story of the Beatnik mixing console with the best team.

He draws (and shares) energy among interesting, creative, and brave people.

He's inspired to push the boundaries of thinking among young people, so at TiPovej he likes to challenge and open minds. Member of the TiPovej! Institute Council.

Parvina Gulyamova

expert and assistant on international projects

She believes learning should be exciting and adventurous, and her favorite part of the process is designing interactive workshops.

She likes to transfer basic concepts from a child's perspective and enjoys incorporating games and other interactive exercises that encourage participants' thinking.

Although it can be challenging, that's exactly what excites her.

She strongly believes that learning should be fun.

Saša Kerkoš

founder

Graphic designer, illustrator, artistic and creative director, initiator of all kinds of collaborations.

Awarded and supported by various design, art, and education institutions.

She works on diverse projects in parallel, living and working between Ljubljana, Helsinki, and Bali.

She is the initiator of the Slovenian Contemporary Illustration platform – Independent Biennial and the Design Biotop event, which promotes the value of design for economic growth and general well-being.

Her work is focused on open knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Tadeja Bučar Atkins

marketing communication consultant, youth mentor

She's inspired by people and the two meters around her.

For the past two years, she has devoted most of her time to creatively leading the PUNKT creators' community in Zasavje and connecting it with the world.

She makes a living through copywriting, brand development, ideas, moderating, and communicating.

She's interested in urban community development, urban city renewal, and the city as a brand.

She enjoys playfulness, fun, and constructiveness.