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Meet our facilitation team

Teamwork will be guided by the facilitators who will ensure tailored approach to each challenge. We work with the experienced team of Platoniq FoundationNGO based in Barcelona, Palma and Madrid, that is working at the intersection of methodologies for inclusion and participation, technology, cultural & social innovation. Platoniq designs open and inclusive phygital spaces to improve the impact of civic initiatives, testing and validating effective means of incentivising progressive engagement and long term participation in crowd-based collective intelligence.

Furthermore, Platoniqʼs tools and methodologies, endorsed by national and international institutions including local governments, universities, professional associations and innovation agencies accompany the transition towards civic participation through online platforms.

Currently, the team is engaged in developing the concept of Crowdvocacy as a distributed but coordinated process between different platforms where civic initiatives increase their influence. In this context, Platoniq is working closely with major digital platforms for citizen participation launched by the municipalities of Madrid and Barcelona – Decide Madrid (Consul) and Decidim.

 

Olivier Schulbaum - Lead Facilitator

Olivier Schulbaum - Lead Facilitator
  • Olivier Schulbaum - Lead Facilitator

    Olivier is a creativity and democracy catalyst with 20+ years of expertise in project management, open and democratic innovation, and co-creation methods. As European Projects Director, he equips organizations with transformative frameworks, addressing stakeholder needs amid societal shifts. Leading democratic innovation and participatory tech projects, he co-founded Platoniq NGO and spearheads impact measurement alignment with SDGs and UNESCO indicators. Chair of Europeana's Impact Assessment and an Advisory Board member of Fundación Ciudadana Civio, he shapes impactful change via cross-platform collaboration. Based in Barcelona, Palma, and Madrid.

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Nadia Nadesan - Facilitator

Nadia Nadesan - Facilitator
  • Nadia Nadesan - Facilitator

    Nadia Nadesan is a researcher, writer, and designer working in digital civic participation especially with Decidim and tech governance at the Platoniq Foundation. Her work involves a mix of traditional academic research, UX research, and design facilitation. As a member of Design Justice Mediterranea (A network funded by Platoniq) and Tech Revengers, she actively engages in activism and development of inclusive digital platforms. Her work with small institutions, GLAMs, and local initiatives has been to support the use of open source and sustainable tech solutions and develop more participatory governance and systems.

     

     

     

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Eva Frade - Facilitator

Eva Frade - Facilitator
  • Eva Frade - Facilitator

    Law degree (ESADE, 2007) with a specialization in commercial law. More than 10 years of experience in legal consulting and advice to non-profit organizations and public administration. Councillor of Citizen Participation (2015-19), where she promoted participatory budgets, the Municipal Council of Participation, and the management of entities in the territory. Member of Platoniq since 2021, where her role is that of technical secretary of the foundation, responsible for administrative and project management.

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Águeda Quiroga - Facilitator

Águeda Quiroga - Facilitator
  • Águeda Quiroga - Facilitator

    Águeda Quiroga is a social anthropologist with extensive experience in public policy design and innovation. She specializes in fostering public conversations on public problems. With a strong background in higher education, education in non-academic backgrounds and international collaboration, Águeda brings expertise in democratic digital participation and community engagement to her facilitation work.

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Marçal Planas - Facilitator

Marçal Planas - Facilitator
  • Marçal Planas - Facilitator

    Marçal has focused his attention on reasoning and debate as tools to solve problems and find new solutions. He has taken part in initiatives of democratic innovation in local administration, organizing formative sessions and round democratic tables with Entrona 3 for town councils such as Montornés and Tarragona with the project ‘Fem una Tarragona Sostenible’ (Let's make Tarragona sustainable). Likewise, at the Manager’s Office for Culture and Citizen Participation of the Cardedeu City Council, he worked in the deployment of institutions such as the Citizen Assemble and the "Jo Vull Vull" Participative Budgets. During his studies of Political Science and Administration at the UdG he had a stay in Auroville, India, where he collaborated in the analysis of the Residents Assembly. He also obtained a postgraduate degree in Citizen Participation, Democratic Deliberation and Digital Technologies at the COLPIS. With different and new experiences, democratic creativity is at the heart of his work.

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David Leal - Facilitator

David Leal - Facilitator
  • David Leal - Facilitator

    Economist, PhD in Sociology. Representative of the Innovation in Politics Institute in Spain. Communicator on leadership and public innovation.

    Responsible for identifying the most innovative Public Policies with the greatest social impact that are produced in Spain each year, nominating them for participation in the annual European Gala of The Innovation in Politics Institute Foundation based in Vienna. 

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Mariano Martino - Facilitator

Mariano Martino - Facilitator
  • Mariano Martino - Facilitator

    Political scientist (UAB) and Master in City Management (UOC). Specialised in cultural planning and cultural policies. From the field of citizen innovation and digital culture, he has experience in the design of projects focused on the generation of collaborative networks. He has worked in public administration and also in the development of activist processes of citizen advocacy. Currently, in addition to running enjambre (http://enjambre.cc), he teaches the subject ‘Technopolitics, networks and citizenship’ on the UOC's Master's Degree in City and Urban Planning.

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Alejandra Gallardo - Facilitator

Alejandra Gallardo - Facilitator
  • Alejandra Gallardo - Facilitator

    Program coordinator for training, workshops, and the Creatif Academy project at the Platoniq Foundation. Additionally, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Communication, and Culture at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she also earned a Master's in Media, Communication, and Culture, and graduated in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on analyzing TikTok as a tool for disseminating information about climate change and exploring new narratives in response to the ecosocial crisis. Her work is dedicated to raising awareness of the challenges society faces in the ecological and social transition.

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