FAIRSTART FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Bodil Mygind Madsen holds a MA in social anthropology and Russian language. She has more than 25 years' experience coordinating national and international projects in the field of formal and informal education and learning, culture, employment, voluntary work and social activities. For more than 20 years, she has been working with projects and programs related to elderly care, integration of refugees/immigrants in education, the labour marked and society in general. Bodil has more than 30 years of experiences as a teacher, among others in Turkey, Estonia and Russia. She was Project Manager on the projects FAIRstart 2008 -2010 and TransFAIR 2011-2013. Furthermore she was the Danish coordinator of the ERASMUS+ project "MultiCulturality in Care" which was successfully implemented in the period 2014-2017 in cooperation with Danish municipalities and trade unions. At the moment, she is the coordinator of the ERASMUS+ project TECHSenior.
Job Titles:
- Counselor at the School in Upernavik
- Deputy School Inspector, Prinsesse Margrethe Skolen, Upernavik, Avannaata Kommunia
Dia is a school counselor at the school in Upernavik. Dia is a educated teacher and has been a Fairstart instructor since 2019. Dia collaborating with Susi.
Job Titles:
- Computer Scientist, Courier and Former Sales Executive
For more than 30 years, Hans Hjordt Hansen has worked with management and development of sytem- and sales departments, where the client base consited of the largest Danish telecom - and industry clients. The last 8 years, Hans has worked as a courier with tours to China, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and several parts of South America. He is a real globetrotter.
Jana holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in International Studies. She has solid experience with international project management and is currently working on different projects, focusing on communication as well as the administration and coordination of our online education platform.
Jannie Mikkelsen holds a masters degree in Psychology from the University of Aarhus.
Job Titles:
- Entrepreneur and Project Developer
Kim Barba has for more than 25 years founded and been the driving force in a number of startups in both Denmark and abroad. He has also been involved in cultural projects and non-commercial collaborations, among others as festival coordinator and as the founder of a think tank that worked for regional development in West Jutland.
Kim has traveled most of the world and has studied political science at Aarhus University.
Mette Møller is a self-employed organisational psycologist, who works with management and organisational development. Further, Mette has written books and contributed with much significant voulenteer work in favour of her hometown Aarhus.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Co - Owner
Morten Jac is co-founder of Fairstart Foundation and co-owner of the consultant house key2see. Key2see works with innovation, organisation development, creativity, and communication. Morten Jac is educated as a teacher and holds a degree in rhetorics and communication from the University of Aarhus.
After decades of work with traumatised and adopted children, Niels published "Severe Attachment Disorder - A Guide to Practical Therapy" in 2005. The following lectures and studies of care systems around the world inspired him to gather a network of international researchers. Niels and the team transforms their care recommendations in Fairstart's unique blended learning design, in partnerships with government agencies and NGO staff. This allows professionals to train thousands of foster parents and group home workers in attachment based practices at low cost. He received the Danish adoption Award in 2012, Fairstart received the EU award 2016 for innovative e-learning, and in 2020 Niels received the American Psychologist Association's Award for International Humanitarian Work.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Illustrator
- Grahic Designer, Illustrator
- IT Specialist
Peter Schramm works as Grahic Designer, Illustrator and owns the company Cubix. Peter makes the impossible possible.
Job Titles:
- Teacher
- Fairstart Instructor
- Headmaster, Prinsesse Margrethe Skolen, Upernavik, Avannaata Kommunia
Susi is a teacher and has a MA in mathematics didactics. Susi has been a Fairstart instructor since 2019 and holds courses in the northern part of Greenland (Ilulissat and Aasiat) in cooperation with Dia Jensen.