Founder
Maria Dimcheva
Lawyer and Human Rights Activist
LLM (Mainz), LLM (Vienna)
Shareholder, CEO
Areas of activity
- Project management
- Empowerment approach
- Development of concepts and strategies
- Conducting professional research
- Promoting of discussion and creation spaces
- Design of innovation processes
- Networking analysis and visualisation
- Improvisation methods
- Ethical and cultural processes
- Life changing situations
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA Law
- MA International Relations, European Law
- LLM German Law (Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz)
- LLM Human Rights (University of Vienna)
Professional development
- Multilateral Diplomacy – United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
- Political Empowerment of Women – National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
- Political Management – Robert Schuman Institute (RSI)
- Management of social economy companies
- Fundraising of social economy organisations
- Business administration of social economy companies
- Business Mediation
- Successful negotiation
- Legal rhetoric and communication
- The art of networking
Certificats
Career path
Judge, Administrative lawyer in government departments, Legal adviser, Lawyer, Managing Director of a state agency on social affairs, Advisor to mobile workers, refugees, homeless people, Executive Officer of the 3rd qualification level at a district administration, Manager of a non-profit organisation empowering persons with disabilities, Head of Departement Migration, Integration and Anti-Racism, Founder, Shareholder and Managing Director of Charter 22 gUG
Personal
Convinced and cheerful European
Proud Bulgarian, born in the impressive, green and ancient Kyustendil (Кюстендил)
Delighted German, resident of Berlin – an open-minded, international, tolerant, vibrant, inspiring and real living city where people can be who they are
Previously lived in: Sofia, Budapest, Vienna, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Munich
Interests
Europe, Democracy, Human Rights, Rule of Law, Foreign and Security policy, Transatlantic Relations, Gender Equality, Women Empowerment, Inclusion, Anti-Discrimination, Anti-Racism, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
Hobbies
philosophy, practical psychology, spirituality, literature, architecture, cinema, music, theatre, painting, photography, hiking, gardening, journey and company of good people who move my heart and inspire my mind; open for experiences with new places, cultures and ideas; looking for uplifting, creative, innovative, dynamic and energy spaces
Credo
Touch, connect, perceive, reflect, understand and implement in daily living the great beauty, love, harmony, wisdom and power of Mother Nature with all its uniqueness, perfection, diversity, intensity, constant movement, power of change, potential for sustainability and hope for future.
Setting something in motion requires consistently some kind of energy. Comparably with nature, this energy is always created in encounters through interaction, bringing together, adaptation and coordination of different individuals.
Read what is not written between the lines. Listen to the unspoken words between the sentences. Perceive the driving force between actions. Feel the emotions between relationships.
Getting to know, understanding, acceptance, recognition and appreciation of all that appears as unknown, strange or anxious is the hidden code for transforming overwhelming barriers into powerful fields of learning, creating, improving, advancing, sustaining so that all seemingly impossible in the beginning becomes in the end possible.
Sustainable solutions never can be found in one-sidedness, but in constant interaction and reflection on opposites. By changing the position, the point of view, the perspective to, previously unknown can be seen also as something valuable.
Areas of tension that develop between the (apparently) opposites are the breeding ground for progress, stability, harmony and thus for prosperity of societies, economic progress and personal success, as a result of meaningful, existence-founding and wellbeing-oriented action.
In order to use the tension as a power for sustainable positive development, the released energy needs to be routed in time into progressive direction so that the areas of tension are managed consciously in a striving manner.
Feeling, promoting, inspiring and transporting the magical power of peaceful, harmonious, respectful, non-violent, human togetherness from one person to another.
Inspiration
„We must be authors of the history of our age.”
„I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.“
„What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
„Democracy is not something to watch.”
“The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is everyone.”
„The reason I made women’s issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered. Participation of women in politics is the way we end violence against women.“
„I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.”
„It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, born Marie Jana Korbelova
„The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
„Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.“
„I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”
„Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.”
„Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.”
“It always makes sense to tell the truth, under all circumstances. When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.“
„Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”
„Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.“
VÁCLAV HAVEL
