Education for Sustainability (EfS) and STEM Benchmarking

Marta has been the Director of the Education division at Anthesis Lavola for 16 years. Marta is responsible for the business and innovation development of programmes for sustainable development, educational services at museums and science centres, awareness campaigns, environmental education centres and educational consulting.

Additonally, she is also Manager of the education area of the El Far Consortium Centre, developing awareness projects in marine environmental education and dissemination of maritime history and navigation.

Marta is a Greenpeace activist, sailor and founder of the local NGO Adenc. Environmental activism and education have been her professional and personal leitmotiv. She has a degree in biological sciences and completed the EADA programme of general management. She also has a Master’s in Integral Management of the Coast from the UPC and a Master’s in Environmental Engineering and Management.

Núria is Manager of the Educational Programmes department, where the objective is to transmit and disseminate knowledge with the aim of empowering people and transforming society. She devises and manages educational projects that bring innovation and new trends in tools and methodologies to Lavola’s clients. She wants to excite people so that they are protagonists of a more sustainable society.

Núria started her professional career 15 years ago at the Mar Foundation, as a Communication and Education Coordinator, and participated in research projects for the conservation of the sea and the coast. 3 years later she joined Anthesis Lavola as Coordinator of the Educational Programme ‘La Caixa a favor del Mar’ and, subsequently, was promoted as Project Manager.

Núria has been Manager of the Educational Programmes department for 2 years, which she has undertaken with great enthusiasm and responsibility. Her passion for the ocean has led her to begin studying Marine Sciences in Barcelona and she has completed courses related to the management and conservation of the land and marine environment (cartographic information systems, aquaculture techniques, rescue diver qualification with PADI, etc.).

Arantxa is currently Manager of the department of Educational Services in science and technology museums and research centres. She coordinates the teams of educators, mediators and facilitators for the revitalisation of scientific activities. She also conceptualises and designs these activities and develops innovative spaces and sessions for all types of audiences for scientific training and for sustainable development.

Arantxa began her career at Anthesis Lavola 18 years ago, starting as an Educator of the sustainability education programme “How does Barcelona work?”. Later she went on to coordinate the programme, and progressed on to coordinating different environmental education programmes, environmental interpretation centres and educational innovation projects.

Additionally, she coordinates educational teams in scientific museums such as the CosmoCaixa and scientific research centres such as the Alba Synchrotron and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

While her professional career began in the framework of sustainable development, more recently she has specialised in scientific dissemination as she considers that Anthesis Lavola are great mediators to increase the scientific capital of people and thus, train them for the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Alba is currently Educational Consulting Manager, where she designs and coordinates educational proposals focused on each client acquiring the knowledge, attitudes and values necessary to actively contribute to forging a sustainable future at all levels.

As Manager of the department, she enjoys exploring opportunities, generating change and achieving challenges from an interdisciplinary and creative perspective.

Alba started her development in the environmental education sector more than 10 years ago, starting as an educator in natural spaces, and entering Lavola as an educator at the Agbar de las Aguas Museum. She temporarily went to do an internship in Scotland and returned to Lavola as a local Campaign Coordinator. Later she worked as a technician of different educational programmes, designing activities and coordinating teams linked to technical offices.

She has a degree in Environmental Sciences, a Master’s degree in terrestrial ecology, a postgraduate degree in social entrepreneurship and a postgraduate diploma in project development management.

Sandra is currently Manager of environmental education centres and citizen participation projects at Anthesis (previously Lavola). These are projects that have an important social component, and whose objective is to raise awareness and empower citizens to become active agents in society.

Sandra has worked in the Education area at Lavola since 2005, when she graduated with a degree in environmental sciences and she is proud to have worked in the same company since then. Initially, Sandra developed educator tasks in different programmes and later moved on to coordinating and managing the Education service area.

She has participated in the opening of two environmental education facilities in Barcelona, handling the end-to-end management of the project, developing them together with the relevant technical personnel in each case. She has also designed educational activities such as exhibitions and other educational resources and is passionate about environmental projects with a social component and that contribute to transforming people and the surrounding environment.

Sandra has a degree is in environmental sciences and social pedagogue. Additionally, she has a postgraduate degree in environmental communication and a Master’s degree in education and rural development, which is closely linked to Education for Sustainable Development.

Laura’s current role is Campaigns Manager at Anthesis Lavola and before that she worked as a Project Coordinator in our Education team for the CosmoCaixa science museum in Barcelona. She has 11 years of experience in the science museum management sector and is skilled in the design, implementation and execution of educational activities and the management, training and selection of educational staff.

Career highlights include leading the content creation for the training sessions of the Universe for the “Partícules” project of the Cantània program in 2018 and designing, coordinating and implementing Lavola’s own activities such as “Lluc el samaruc”.

Laura holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Education and Communication from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Girona.