Jochen Schell
Since 2012 Jochen Schell has been the director of YEPP EUROPE at the International Academy Berlin and has developed with his team a wide range of capacity building programmes with and for young people with fewer opportunities across Europe. Before completing his European Masters in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights, he worked in numerous organizations in the field of communications and journalism based in London, Paris, Madrid, Accra, Mexico D.F., Dar es Salaam, Tashkent, Colombo and Algiers.
His passion for Children’s Rights Education and Music led him to develop the Songs for Rights methodology. As the director and founder of Songs for Rights, he has been developing workshops and trainings across Europe since 2019.
“When we piloted the Songs for Rights method in 2012 in Ghana, I remember the stars in the eyes of the children who listened for the first time to their own produced and recorded song. Since that moment, these stars have been the inspiration and motivation for songs for rights and have been leading our way.”
Rian Evers – musician, composer, songwriter