Homeschooling Europe

An experienced education consultant, Debi specialises in Special educational needs, Home Education, and teens who dropped out of education. She acts as a national spokesperson for Switzerland. Mother of four homeschooled children, two of whom have completed their compulsory education years and are out in the world.

International speaker and published author, Tessa advocates for parental rights in education and women's empowerment through education. Her research interest is reimagining the global educational systems to focus on a more holistic approach to liberating the uniqueness of every learner.

Social entrepreneur, Co-founder of the Italian Home Education Network, Founder of Libera Schola Foundation and Author, Erika Di Martino has been a passionate advocate for alternative education in Italy for over 15 years. On writing "Educazione Parentale in Italia", Erika became a leading voice in the national conversation around homeschooling, unschooling, and child-led learning both with families and the Institution. Erika is also the mother of five children, with whom she practices home education. Her work spans writing, public speaking, mentoring families, and supporting community-based learning initiatives that prioritize curiosity, autonomy, and connection over standardization and grading.

Family rights consultant. Member of the movement for freedom and education Founder of Descobrimos Researcher at the Aberta University

Mariusz is a Doctor of technical sciences, Data Scientist and lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is President of the Family Education Association.

Co-founder of Slovenian HomeEd network and the institute for the development of home education. Author of “Where do you go to School?” and “Magic Tree”

Born into a family of pedagogues, Gabriel is very familiar with what is happening in public schools. As a child with dyslexia, he struggled especially with grammar and languages; the public school has no idea and no time to teach a child with dyslexia. Even his parents and relatives didn’t realize that Gabriel needed a special teaching approach. For these reasons Gabriel learned almost everything by himself, starting to read books at age 14, and studying from the books they had in their family library of 3000 volumes. As Gabriel married and their first child was born, his wife Gabriella and Gabriel started to home school their child and later their four children. They have not a legal basis as home schooling was not included into the Romanian Educational Law, but the law allowed them to enroll their children in schools outside Romania. Three of their children graduated from Home Life Academy. They founded the Romanian Home-Schooling Association in 2002, in the same they their youngest son born. Since then, they promoted HS in Romania, organized conferences, and are working to legalize HS in Romania. They published two books on home schooling and are helping hundreds of families yearly to start HS and to fight with their struggles with authorities. From a small start in 2002 the Romanian homeschooling movement grew up to several thousand families and is still growing up yearly.

Home Education and Flexischooling law and practice advisor and campaigner in the UK and abroad with 25 years of experience.

Monica is mother to 6 children and has been home educating in Eire (Ireland) since 1986. She is the local county Carlow contact for the Home Education Network, a parent support group. Monica was very influenced by the unschooling ideas of John Holt and names her other heroes as Maire Mullarney, Maria Montessori and Suzi Andres. Monica’s youtube channel showcases interviews with 16 home educated young people, discussing their education and what they did with college study and work. https://www.youtube.com/@monicaoconnor1810

Senior home educator passionate about encouraging and empowering parents to educate their children with boldness and freedom.