cv - christos zervas
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Correspondent The European Youth Forum (JYF)
Oct 2014 – Nov 2016 Europe
The ‘European Youth Forum (JYF)’ is the European Youth Parliament. The
elected consortium that unites all national youth councils & NGOs (non-
governmental organisations) around Europe – non EU countries included.
As a correspondent for our official publication "YO!Mag”, apart from
my editorial duties, I perform a range of international relations, advocacy
networking, knowledge transfer & European policy analysis.
Media Relations Manager ESCDaily.com & National Delegations
March 2011 – May 2016 Europe ‘ESCDaily.com’ is the biggest web Eurovision-related Australian portal. Since
2011, I turned into an insider, taking the opportunities given from both the
webside & the National Delegations of Romania, Australia & Malta. As a Media Relations Manager, I was the person between our
readers/our delegation and the media bubble. I arranged and handled live
show-ups & exclusive interviews to national broadcasters like: TVM,
ERR, NRK, SVT, SBS, ERT & DR1.
Account Manager International Committee of Education (ICE)
Sep 2014 – May 2015 Brussels, Belgium The ‘International Committee of Education (ICE)’ observes the way that the
“Erasmus+” program is implemented in Universities & other ‘Higher European
Institutions’ (HEIs). The Committee focuses on the impact that the ‘Erasmus+’
program has on its target group (students).
As an account manager, my main duty was to promote our work & activities, always in partnership with the ‘European Commission’. I served as the first ever marketing-oriented observer, before the “PR & Account manager” role was officially introduced.
Customer Care Analyst Samsung
May 2014 – Sep 2014 Cluj-Nacopa, Romania Samsung is maybe the biggest & most worldwide-known multinational
conglomerate company in Electronics and IT devices. The Balkan HQ is
located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. As a Customer Care Analyst, I supported the Greek & Cypriot call center using SAP in two ways: Reviewing our customers’ written or orally expressed disatisfaction, in order to create groups of relevant feedback and turning their feedback into satisfaction marks & rates.
CHRISTOS ZERVAS
CONFERENCES
Learning Disabilities World Congress RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTER & SPEAKER London, UK, 2016
Inclusive On-Line Youth Engagement INVITED INFLUENCER European Parliament, Strasbourg, FRA, Nov 2014
Erasmus Programme Annual Congress NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF NORWAY Milan, ITA, 2014
The International Learning Environment POLICY MAKER Student Patrliament, Oslo, NOR, Feb 2014
PROJECTS & AWARDS
Top 60 European Youth Leaders Aug 2016 Brussels, Belgium
POLITICO, the biggest European politics & policy
newspaper, announces the “Top 60 European
Youth Leaders’ list” every 3 months. Last August, I
was the first non-EU outsourced & non-political
oriented youth professonal, who entered the list.
European Press Prizes 2015
Jan 2016 Brussels, Belgium The ‘Eurovision Song Contest (ESC)’ is the longer
cultural standing event in the world. With the
editorial support of my press office, the ESC 2015
Vienna’s daily green-room discussion, on whether
& how much inclusive Eurovision is, turned into a
cadidancy, for the ‘European Press Prizes 2015’ –
The Investigative Report Award.
European Commission Surveys
Nov – Dec 2014 Brussels, Belgium
The “Erasmus Impact Study” & the “Erasmus Voting
Assessment” are the two main tools that ‘European
Commission’ created, in order to measure the
impact of an Erasmus semester abroad, beyond
education. In 2014, I was assigned to design &
implement the promotion of those two surveys,
leading a team of 5 members each.
Roalinna 15G, 2740, Roa, Norway [email protected]
no.linkedin.com/in/kristianzervas +47 40 29 47 68
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Special Needs Education M.Phil. University of Oslo (UiO)
Aug 2012 – May 2013 Oslo, Norway This Master Program investigates how teaching can get at its highest
degree of inclusion, within schools, universities & societies.
Erasmus Exchange Student Oslo University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA)
Aug – Dec 2009 Oslo, Norway ‘Our Shared European Culture’ was a 4-month Erasmus package, with
insights from sociology, psychology, ethnology & education.
Philosophy & Social Studies University of Crete
Sep 2005 – Sep 2011 Rethymnon, Greece My bachelor’s major is on ‘Criminal & Identity Psychology’.
VOLUNTEER WORK
DAL – Norwegian National Team U21 Tae-Kwondo European Championships 2012
June – July 2012 Athens, Greece I was the assistant of the Norwegian delegation in Athens. This
experience helped me to get familiar and shape my communication skills
to a later good match with the Norwegian mentality & culture.
Recreational Officer & Festivities Special Olympic Games – ATHENS 2011
June – July 2011 Athens, Greece I was in charge of a 5-member team, assigned to keep the flame of the
athletes sparkling, during their afternoons in the Olympic Village. We
organized various team building & cultural sharing activities.
LANGUAGES
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PrePare Developement Stage
Beez Entrepreneurship School 2016 by ‘Think
Young’ Brussels Tank – Athens, Greece
Mobilizers/Tikit CREA Summer Academy 2015 by the
‘European Commission’ – Milano, Italy
COMPUTER SKILLS - Microsoft Office
- Evernote
- Cloud Drivers
- Blogger
- WordPress
- DropBox
- SAP
- Sound Forge
INTERESTS & HOBBIES Cultural Ambassador, Volleyball Referee, Urbanist Photographer & Traveller, Eurovisionary, Language Teacher, Music & Lyrics, Cooking
REFERENCES
Escrivá Muñoz, Jesús Chair, International Committee of Education
e-mail: [email protected] tel: +34 649 11 03 70
Papadongonas, Alexandros Greek & Cypriot Team Leader, Samsung e-mail: [email protected] tel: +40 741 353 336
Vanhoutte, Olivier International Delegation & Artist Manager, Eurovision Song Contest e-mail: [email protected] tel: +32 496 330 854
GPA
3,07 / 4,00
Greek Native
French Intermediate B1
English Proficient C2
Norwegian Intermediate B1