Our Team

Executive Committee

  • Yevheniia Bryhinets

    yevheniia@cdnee.org​
    Protests

    Yevheniia is an activist and volunteer from Ukraine who has been involved in the green movement since 2020. Her activism focuses on feminism, social and climate justice, regional security issues, and anti-imperialism. She has organized campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, promote sustainable environmental practices and cover russian war crimes. Furthermore, after the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been part of the organisation providing humanitarian aid and first aid kits to civilians and Ukrainians on the frontline.

  • Igor Skórzybót

    igor@cdnee.org
    Ostra Zieleń – Polish Young Greens

    Igor is involved in green and political activism since 2015, in various roles within Ostra Zieleń – Polish Young Greens. His main political interests are education, transport and transparency. He was also co-founder of the local anti-discrimination NGO "Dialog" in Lębork, Poland.

  • Nicat Quliyev

    nijat@cdnee.org
    MIL Network

    Nicat has extensive work experience in community building and community engagement and for the past 4 years has been working with local and international queer communities. They are also interested in artivism and founded Queer Art Festival in Baku in 2020. They are the International Relations Officer of MIL Network and have completed an EC mandate with CDN in the year 2021.

  • Helena Hastor

    helena@cdnee.org
    Sustainable Development Forum Green Window

    Helena's interests are mostly in education, feminism, social justice and human rights. She has been working on problems related to those topics from 2014 and has formed close relations with the green movement around 2019 when she became a member of Sustainable Development Forum Green Window where today she serves as Secretary General.

Office

  • Giorgi Ptskialadze, Secretary General of Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe

    Giorgi Ptskialadze

    Secretary General
    giorgi.ptskialadze@cdnee.org

    Giorgi has been a part of the green political family for over four years now; first, he joined Young Greens in Georgia in 2018 where he became a spokesperson and contributed to the growth and revitalisation of the organisation. And from 2020 until 2021 he was working as a Secretary General of Mtsvaneebi – a movement founded by Young Greens to expand its membership and include people of all ages. Meantime, Giorgi has also been active in CDN and was part of the Executive Committee for two terms – from March 2020 and reelected in April 2021 His main interests and political engagements are party politics, democracy and international affairs as well as climate and environmental protection.


    In CDN he Manages the Network and Executive Committee’s work. He is responsible for statutory events such as General Assembly, Regional and Cross-Regional activities, EC meetings, as well as strategic work and organisational development.

  • Ivana Vojnov, Finance Manager of Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe

    Ivana Vojnov

    Finance and Office Manager
    ivana.vojnov@cdnee.org

    Discovering and actively engaging in the world of volunteering & activism back in 2015, Ivana has found her gem (apart from cats, medicine and the Faculty of Biology). In 2018, her Green journey began with Green Youth of Serbia and its wonderful people (now friends & family), when attending, back then a joint event with CDN - Ekofest. Since then, Ivana engaged in Green events in various roles - from member to the Main Board, uncovering a beautiful oasis of amazing people where she found her safe place. The year 2021 came when Ivana crushed a corporate business after 2 years (almost literally - they sold out their company after she left), and joined CDN as an Office Assistant. Ivana's main responsibilities are assisting the Secretary General with the logistics & finances for events, administration, website and social media. Her other main interests are environmental protection, social justice, mental health and sex education.

  • Nikola Planojevic , Project Manager of Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe

    Nikola Planojevic

    Project Coordinator
    nikola.planojevic@cdnee.org

    Nikola has been involved in some form of activism since his time at high school, beginning as a volunteer in different local initiatives and as an advocate for students’ rights. Formally educated in Psychology and Human Rights, he always valued non-formal approach to learning, and has been involved in non-formal youth educational activities since 2010, first as a participant, then as a trainer and youth educator, and finally as trainer for trainers. Before CDN, he has worked with Da se zna!, a local queer CSO in Belgrade on monitoring, documenting and responding to hate crimes and discrimination incidents against LGBTI+ persons in Serbia. With a great wish to return to the field of youth work and to more substantially contribute to the green movement, he joined CDN as a Project Coordinator in November of 2022.