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Maria Kola
President
Maria comes from Paleometocho, a village in the province of Nicosia. She is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering of the University of Cyprus and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLAN Cyprus University in the Department of Data Analysis.
From a very young age, just 5 years old, she started her voluntary activity through the Cyprus Scout Corps, where she remains active until today as the Leader of the Scout Group in the 288th Scout System of the Old Shareholder. Since 2012 he is an active member of the Youth Ecologists (NE.O.I.), while between the years 2014 – 2018 he was the General Secretary of NE.OI. In the period 2013 – 2015, she was elected Vice President B ‘in the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Youth Council, where during her tenure she was active in promoting the Structured Dialogue, both at the national and European level, as well as in promoting the active involvement of young people in the public. During the period 2015-2017, he was selected in the Cypriot delegation for the Commonwealth Countries Youth Forum.
At the same time, in the period 2016 – 2017 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), while in the period 2017-2020 she held the position of Program Implementer in the Africa-Europe Committee of the Commonwealth Youth Council. . From 2018 he participates in the Advisory Body of the Cyprus Youth Council of which he chaired, while in 2019-2020 he participated in the respective advisory Body of the Federation of Young European Greens. Since October 2019 she is the Ambassador of One Young World together with thousands of young people from all over the world. With an active presence in the political scene of Cyprus and abroad, for issues of youth, environment and human rights, Maria continues to act and react!