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Hi, I’m Ivan Piseta. I am a dynamic and results-driven communications and international cooperation professional, currently serving as the Community Management Expert for Capacity4Dev. I hold a Master's Degree in International Project Management and International Economics, and I bring years of experience collaborating with the European Union, particularly through my role as Communications and Visibility Expert and Social Media Manager at the European Union Delegation in Brazil.

Since July 2024, I have been dedicated to fostering community engagement on Capacity4Dev. My responsibilities include approving new Spaces (Groups, Projects, and Resources) and promoting best practices to enhance visibility and member engagement. I am passionate about understanding how the platform can best serve your needs, helping you to promote knowledge sharing, networking, and visibility for the international cooperation activities you are involved with.

You can book a Support Call with me for personalized analysis and suggestions to improve your page, as well as to address any community engagement questions you may have.

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn for networking, collaboration, or any inquiries related to communications and international cooperation.

My passion and curiosity about people, about 'the living', led my personal and professional paths to different places and different countries, where I have experimented with a vast range of encounters and insightful experiences.

For about 30 years I have been involved in the development and coordination of youth-related projects encompassing training courses on intercultural sensitivity and communication, project management, training for trainers, learning 2 learn, and self-directed learning, among others. I also engaged in coaching and in facilitating development and learning processes, for groups or individuals (beyond youth). I had the chance to work with local, national, and European NGOs and platforms, as well as with institutional bodies (European Commission, Council of Europe).

Since then, my path crossed the one of Gestalt therapy and I got trained as a Gestalt therapist at the Belgian Institute of Gestalt Therapy, in Brussels. To support my learning, I continue exploring, discovering and in some cases, training, in different areas such as competence development, the Neurocognitive Behavioural Approach, Inspirational Leadership through Emotional Intelligence and the Process Communication Model. I now have a particular interest in further developing my competencies in the areas of trauma healing and systemic coaching, while being trained on Systemic Family Constellations and their connection with therapy.

From 2017 to 2023, I worked at SALTO Training and Cooperation Resource Centre where I coordinated the development and implementation of the European Training Strategy of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes.

I am a Data and Evaluation expert, former journalist, with 18 years of professional experience, currently working as Evaluation, data and knowledge expert, in the core team of MELDEA project, providing help desk evaluation support DG INTPA and DG NEAR. Following an education at the European School of Brussels II, he graduated in Journalism at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL, École de Journalisme de Louvain), and worked for 4 years as a journalist in Brussels covering EU News. This was followed by 7 years working in the management of International Development projects for consulting companies, and 7 years working as an expert in evaluation, data analysis, communication and knowledge management for the evaluation helpdesk technical assistances with DG INTPA, DG NEAR and FPI, which is his current assignment.
In the past 7 years, he has applied his data analysis skills and knowledge of EU Project Cycle Management to the field of developmental evaluation, with the objective to improve evaluation practices and learning from evaluations in the EC institutions. He has an excellent knowledge of EU Policies and guiding principles of Team Europe initiative, Strategic Planning and Programming Cycle (SPP), Financial Guidelines and EU funding mechanisms, and an excellent knowledge EC financial and contracting procedures (PRAG, INTPA Companion), Intervention Cycle Management guidelines, internal reporting and monitoring.

Advise the members of the Directorate Asia Pacific and Delegations in the programming, design and implementation of budget support programmes and public finance management project.

23 years of International experience and 11 in the NGO sector in Ireland. I had continued working in the Third Sector in Spain & currently at International Cooperation.

I am passionate about projects that create value in people´s lives, communities and that contribute to transform society.