Powered by AXA Local Offices Worldwide
The selected Unlock Education Fellows are connected with their respective AXA local offices in Belgium, France, Türkiye, Germany, Thailand, Brazil, and the UK. Through this international network, AXA’s local teams help anchor the partnership in their local contexts by fostering visibility, dialogue, and connections around education.
This reflects a shared commitment to driving systemic change and recognizes that collaboration across sectors is key to achieving lasting impact.
Theo Vaes
Belgium
Theo Vaes
Through Athena Open Leercentrum, he provides accessible learning spaces that turn restored confidence into lasting educational and professional pathways, helping shift social policy from treating the symptoms of poverty to preventing its root causes.
Koen Timmers
Belgium
Koen Timmers
Drawing on his lifelong experience as an educator, Koen empowers teachers and young people worldwide to turn climate education into action by connecting classrooms across borders, transforming student learning and driving education systems toward solution-oriented, empathetic climate curricula.
Aude Favre
France
Aude Favre
Aude is providing citizens with new roles to dismantle misinformation flow and transferring journalist expertise to young people to become critical readers by reducing the sharing of fake news, developing credible content, and undermining the economics of misinformation.
Vanessa Duchatelle
France
Vanessa Duchatelle
Vanessa is transforming education by making social and emotional learning a core responsibility of schools, starting with educators themselves, so that every child, regardless of background, can develop the skills needed to succeed academically, emotionally, and socially.
Mine Ekinci
Türkiye
Mine Ekinci
Mine is building a powerful network of teachers, students, and communities to transform village schools in Türkiye into centers of opportunity and pride, empowering young teachers as local leaders and redefining what quality education means for rural children.
Zafer Elcik
Türkiye
Zafer Elcik
Zafer turned his brother’s struggle with autism into a global movement for inclusive learning. He is democratizing access to special education through Otsimo, a game-based platform empowering children with autism and their families to learn, communicate, and thrive.