Biography
Ilana Cicurel is a French Member of the European Parliament from the Renew Europe Group where she sits on the Committees for Culture and Education, Legal Affairs, Budgetary control as well as Employment and Social Affairs. She is a lawyer, Fulbright Scholar from Harvard Law School. After teaching law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, she became director general of an international network of schools.
This experience led Ilana Cicurel to dedicate her parliamentary work to European law, education and vocational training, long-life learning, innovation, educational research as well as to promoting practices such as mentoring at European level. Social justice, equality, access to culture, democratic values, citizen engagement and the fight against racism and antisemitism are at the heart of her European commitment.
In the educational field, Ilana Cicurel is the rapporteur of the European Parliament Report on the system of European Schools. She has also been the Renew Europe Group rapporteur on the European Education Area and appointed to a governmental mission to strengthen the European dimension of the French education system in the perspective of the French Presidency of the EU.
In her work, Ilana Cicurel stands for the recognition of soft skills and is a front player in making mentoring a European issue to tackle some of the most prominent challenges of our time. She advocates for increasing teacher’s mobility, the integration of a European Module in the initial training of teachers to create a shared educational culture and for the exchange of best pedagogical practices to become a reality in the classrooms, making Europe a true educational power.
Session
Friday April 26th
- 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Final Address