Organisation: EOS Romania Foundation
Country: Romania
Laurentiu Bunescu is the Head of Digital Education Programmes at Educating for an Open Society – EOS Romania Foundation since 2019, having previously held the position of CEO of ALL DIGITAL. Laurentiu is a strong advocate for digital skills and for a proper use of digital technologies towards better employability, social inclusion, education, and wellbeing. He has an experience of over 15 years leading and contributing to projects and campaigns in the areas of digital inclusion, digital competences and ICT education, in a multi-cultural international context. Skilled in the management of networks, Laurentiu has a strong background in the non-profit sector and vast knowledge of the European policies on digital competences.
Before EOS and ALL DIGITAL, Laurentiu started one of the first digital competence centres in Romania. His early experience in Eastern European grassroots community development provides a major insight in understanding the network of digital competence centres across the whole of Europe.
Laurentiu has been involved with ALL DIGITAL (Telecentre-Europe) since its start-up in 2007. Since then he has contributed to building the community of digital centres in Europe, and has witnessed the legal registration of ALL DIGITAL in 2010. He has been part of of the growth of ALL DIGITAL in different capacities, starting from Project Manager to Operations and Campaigns Manager and then finally as CEO. Over the past couple of years he used his European experience to contribute to the development of digital skills in Romania.