Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s) / Veronika Juhász
Address / Villányi út 74.
H-1113 Budapest
Hungary
Telephone(s) / +3613862395 / Mobile / +36309973088
E-mail / (private/work)
Nationality / Hungarian
Date of birth / 10 January 1967
Gender / Female
Occupational fields / freelance trainer / freelance translator
Work experience
Dates / 1993 → present
Occupation or position held / Freelance translator/interpreter (English/Hungarian)
Main activities and responsibilities / Mainly business/banking documents, but also: HR educational materials (Compasito, HRE: Yes!), text book, magazine article, human rights documents etc.
Name of employer / KPMG, Barents Group LLC, KH Bank Rt., Amnesty International, Mobilitas, Sinosz (National Association of the Hearing Impaired)
Type of business or sector / not-for-profit, non-governmental, for-profit
Dates / 1990-1991, 1994, 2001-2003
Occupation or position held / Language teacher (Hungarian as a foreign language, English)
Main activities and responsibilities / Teaching as private teacher and at language schools
Name of employer / Arany János Nyelviskola, London Studió, Atalanta School
Type of business or sector / for-profit
Dates / 2002 → 2004
Occupation or position held / Volunteer, refugee coordinator
Main activities and responsibilities / Keep contact with other Hungarian refugee organisations and UNHCR, coordinate refugee related work of Amnesty International Hungary including letter writing campaigns
Name of employer / Amnesty International Hungary, Budapest
Type of business or sector / not-for-profit, non-governmental
Dates / 2004 → 2011
Occupation or position held / volunteer trainer at Amnesty International Hungary, freelance human rights trainer
Main activities and responsibilities / Planning/ running training sessions
Name of employer / Amnesty International Hungary, Civitas Association (Hungary), Mobilitas (Hungary), CoE
Type of business or sector / education
Dates / 1999-2000
Occupation or position held / Project coordinator, translator/interpreter
Main activities and responsibilities / Organize interviews for a documentary film, interpret during interviews, translate subtitles
Name of employer / CsillagésÁdám Film
Type of business or sector / Not-for-profit
Education and training
Dates / 1985-1990
Title of qualification awarded / MA in garden design and landscape architecture
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / Subjects: garden design, urban planning, landscape planning, history of art, geology, meteorology, statics, botany, drawing, mechanics, planning, academic writing, gardening
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / University of Horticulture, Budapest, Hungary
Dates / 1991-1992
Type of education / Research grant
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / Urban planning in Holland, document research, academic writing
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / TU Delft, Holland
Dates / 1992-2000
Title of qualification awarded / MA in American Studies, teacher
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / US history, linguistics, literature, current society, pedagogy, psychology, English language, presentation, academic writing, debate, document research
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / School of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
Dates / 1994-1995
Type of education / OSI grant
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / American literature, native American civilisation, cognitive linguistics, democracy, cultural geography
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Dates / 19-20/06/2004
Type of training / Amnesty International Hungary’s training for its activists
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / human rights documents and institutions, peace education, HRE methodology, skills for designing and running HRE courses
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / EJBO Foundation
Dates / 13-18/09/2004, 2-5/02/2005
Type of training / KOMPASZ Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education with Young People, Hungarian youth workers and youth trainers
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / human rights documents, history of human rights, human rights values, human rights education methodology, debate skills
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Council of Europe, Directorate of Youth and Sports and Mobilitás
Dates / 15-21/07/2005
Type of training / Project Citizen
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / Methodology of civic education, planning/running a Project Citizen type of educational programme
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Center for Civic Education, venue: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Dates / 10/12/2005 - 30/03/2008
Type of training / Advanced Compass Training in Human Rights Education, long-term training course
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / human rights documents and institutions, transformative learning, HRE methodology, relationship of HRE with other educational fields, writing and adapting activities, debate skills, conflict management skills, skills for designing and running training courses
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Directorate of Youth and Sports, Council of Europe
Dates / 14/06/2008 - 18/14/2008
Type of training / Advanced Kompass Training
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / HRE methodology, Hungarian constitution, HR issues in Hungary, skills for designing and running HRE courses
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Mobilitás
Dates / 16/11/2009- 06/12/2009
Type of training / Mediation
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / Psychological/legal background to mediation, methodology of mediation, conflict management skills
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Kapcsolat Foundation, Budapest
Dates / 2011-2014
Type of training / Kindergarten teacher
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered / Pedagogy, psychology, children’s literature, philosophy, sociology, ethics, linguistics, science, logopedia, music, methodology, visual education, physical education, puppet theatre, anatomy, health education, ethnography etc.
Name and/or type of organisation providing education and training / Szent István University, Szarvas, Hungary
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s) / Hungarian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment / Understanding / Speaking / Writing
Listening / Reading / Spoken interaction / Spoken production
English / Proficient user / Proficient user / Proficient user / Proficient user / Proficient user
Spanish / Independent user / Independent user / Independent user / Independent user / Independent user
Social skills and competences / empathy, communication skills, facilitation skills, mediation skills, working in multicultural/international teams, networking skills
Organisational skills and competences / coordinating projects
Technical skills and competences / Good command of planning processes
Computer skills and competences / Good command of Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Experienced user of Windows
Artistic skills and competences / Music (10 years of guitar, 1 year of percussions)
Other skills and competences / Sports (archery, basketball, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, cycling)
Driving licence(s) / category B drivers' licence
Additional information / Publications
“Amerikaiak Budapesten az 1990-es évek végén” (Americans in Budapest in the late 1990s) – shortened version of the thesis paper in American Studies (published by the Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2000)
Trainings (with role and organiser) / • Human rights training of student council members, November 26-28, 2004, trainer (Mobilitas Central Hungarian Regional Youth Service)
• Training of Hungarian youth workers and secondary school teachers in Human Rights Education with Young People, September 29-October 1, 2006, trainer (Civitas Association)
• Series of trainings on human rights for secondary school children at Neumann János Vocational School, November 8-29, 2006, trainer (Amnesty international Hungary)
• Trainings of trainers for Amnesty International activists, January 26-28, 2007 and April 20-22, 2008 (Amnesty International Hungary)
• Compasito Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education with Children, October 12-19, 2008, trainer (Council of Europe, Directorate of Youth and Sports)
• KISKOMPASZ (Compasito) Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education with Children, September 3-6, 2009, trainer (Mobilitás)
• Study session ‘Social Cohesion and Quality of Life – Human Rights Education contribution’, February 8-14, 2010, trainer (HREYN in co-operation with the Council of Europe)
• Series of trainings in human rights for secondary school children at various schools in and outside of Budapest, 2008-2010, trainer (Amnesty International Hungary, or AI Hungary in cooperation with other organisations)
Other contributions to HRE / • Translator of Compasito – Manual on human rights education for children into Hungarian and copy-editor, 2009
• Co-editor of the revised Compass – Manual for human rights education with young people, 2011
• Rapporteur of the Workshop for bloggers and online human rights activists on how to combat hate speech online, 2012
• Quality controller of Bookmarks – A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights, 2015
• Rapporteur of the Evaluation and Follow-up Conferenceof the No Hate Speech Movement campaign , 2015
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