María Laura Schiffrin

Professor of the course of Volunteers in Social Organizations
Bachelor’s degree and Professor of Education Science of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Postgraduate degree in Clinical Psycopedagogy (Eppec), Postgraduate degree in Training in Values (University of Barcelona- OEI, Organization of Ibero-American States).
She designs and develops systems of socio-education and intercultural systems and training of trainers in the scenario of Formal and Non-formal education at the local, Latin America and international level.
For more than 25 years she has been devoted to promotion of personal and communitarian development in non government organizations and education institutions.
She coordinated the Program “Paso Joven: Solidary Participation for Latin America” of the IBD, with organizations in Argentina, Bolivia and Dominican Republic.
She coordinates programs of Training and Exchange of “Aprendizaje Servicio” (Service-learning) between organizations in Argentina and Spain.
She is co-designer of the Procedure Design of the Escuela Latinoamericana para la Actoría
Social Juvenil, a project managed from the Programa de Formación de Liderazgo Juvenil
para la Actoría Social (Program for Juvenile Leadership) in Latin America. She co-coordinated the Pilot Experience 2007-08.
She participates from year 2004 the SAT Program for Educators centered in Psychology.

She currently forms part of the following spaces:
o Management Council of Subir al Sur: Promotion of Peace Culture through
Intercultural Youth Volunteering, www.subiralsur.org.ar
o Education Committee of the SAT Program Association for Educators of Argentina,
www.edusatargentina.com.ar
o SES Foundation “Sustentabilidad-Educación-Solidaridad”:www.fundses.org.ar
o Latin American School for Juvenile Social Participation, www.elasj.telecomsat.net
o “Barrio Malaver-Villate” Cooperative (Organization with a territory base in the north area of Gran Buenos Aires) http://malavervillate.blogspot.com