Mihaela Diaconescu, Vicepresident of U30+ Association, is chemistry teacher with significant management experience as vice principal at ‘Nicolae Titulescu’ National College in Pucioasa, 2002-2017. She is also author and co-author of three reference books for the educational managers, teacher trainer for community management projects and member in the advisory boards of the County Inspectorate of Dambovita.

The most relevant skills and expertise achieved up to now, are related to the following experiences and activities:

+ External evaluator expert on quality education for Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance on Pre-university Education
+ Certificates of competencies and many experiences as: auditor in the area of quality/trainer/teacher trainer/mentor/project manager/expert in accessing European structural and cohesion funds/ public relations and communications assistant
+ Competencies and expertise in European projects initiation/development: LLP/Comenius: coordinator of 3 multilateral partnerships, team member for other 4 projects, including Regio, participant to 18 project meetings in the EU countries, beneficiary of 4 individual grants (2 Comenius courses: ‘Stress Management in Schools’- 2009, Istanbul, Turkey; ‘Human Rights Education – Social Rights and Globalization’ – 2005, Venice, Italy), 1 study visit (‘Improving Quality through Internal and External Evaluation in Autonomous Schools’ – 2009, Hamburg, Germany), 1 preparatory visit (San Benedetto del Tronto – 2008, Italy)/ LLP /Leonardo da Vinci: beneficiary of the grant for training course in LLP – LdV/VETPRO (‘Improving Competences for Projects Writing and Implementations withing the Program 2014-2020’ – 2014, Albano Laziale, Italy)/ Erasmus+ Program: coordinator of 2 projects KA1-VET (2014-2015 and 2015-2016), initiator/member in the project team for KA2 – strategic partnership (2014 -2016)
+ Competence and experiences in implementing national strategic projects for human resources development (POSDRU), having as beneficiaries the Ministry of Education, Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance on Pre-university Education, School Inspectorate of Dambovita County and ‘Youth for Youth’ Foundation: trainer of trainers, trainer in management/ quality education/ assessment/extracurricular and extra-academic activities; training monitoring expert/county coordinator; coaching
+ Trainer of the Teaching Staff Resource Center Dambovita for the courses in ‘Management of Erasmus+ projects’ and ‘Quality Management in Education’
+ Trainer, volunteer, county coordinator for ‘Youth for Youth’ Foundation (‘Individual Responsability – HIV/AIDS Prevention’, ‘Education for Family Life’, ‘Active Citizenship’, etc).