Anne‑Louise Dupin joined Erasmus+ & ESC in 2023, as SALTO Green was launching, after 5 years in foreign language learning in Sri Lanka. As a pedagogical engineer, she produces training content, to improve the positive impact of the programmes and limit their ecological footprint.

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa is a researcher at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen. His work spans the fields of anthropology, political ecology, and environmental humanities, with a focus on environmental conflicts, grassroots organizing and climate justice movements. He’s the co-editor of the volume Urban Movements and Climate Change (Amsterdam University Press, 2024), and of the collection Insurgent Ecologies. Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations (Fernwood Publishing, 2024). He’s a founding member and editor of the collective Undisciplined Environments, and a collaborator of the independent media Napoli Monitor.

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations. Eimear Manning (she/they) is NYCI’s Youth & Climate Justice Development Officer. She coordinates youth-led projects centred on issues of climate change, climate justice, and marine sustainability. Recently, she sat on a Drafting Committee creating a new Council of Europe Recommendation on Young People and Climate Action, which was adopted by the Council of Ministers in October 2024. She also advises the Irish Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on issues pertaining to water and the marine through her capacity as an elected member of The Water Forum/An Fóram Uisce. Finally, Eimear was nominated by the Department of Education to be Ireland’s representative on the UNECE Education for Sustainable Development Steering Committee Youth Task Force.

Andreea Pletea is a Program Manager at the Environment and Human Rights Academy (TEHRA), a non-profit organisation dedicated to environmental education for young people and educators. TEHRA’s work seeks to bring to light the systems underlying environmental crises, their impacts on people and nature, and pathways for systemic change.

With a background in law and environmental social sciences, Andreea believes in the power of education informed by systems thinking and environmental justice. She emphasizes the role of community, creativity and connection with nature in transforming emotions around difficult topics into meaningful action and fostering collective change.

Filipe Moreira Alves is a researcher,  facilitator and entrepreneur working within the fields of sustainability transitons, regenerative development and societal transformation. 

Pegah Moulana is an environmental governance and human rights advocate with over a decade of experience in youth advocacy and more than five years working on climate justice and climate governance. She is the outgoing Secretary General of Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), a pan-european network of young environmental organisations, where she coordinated multi-country programmes on environmental defenders, just transition, and rights-based climate action.

Previously, Pegah served as a Rapporteur at the Council of Europe, where she drafted the Recommendation on Young People and the Climate Crisis adopted by all 47 member states. She has represented youth voices in major international spaces including COP27, COP29, and European Parliament hearings and continues to work at the intersection of governance, rights, and climate justice as a trainer.

Elias works with youth engagement at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action, where he also deals with volunteering programmes such as the European Climate Pact or engagement activities such as the Youth Policy Dialogues. He also works with policies dealing with climate solidarity, like the new Social Climate Fund, aiming to support vulnerable households and ensure that the green transition is fair and inclusive.