Nikos GALANIS – who received the title of “Teacher of the Year” at the Education Leaders Awards 2021 and the Global Teacher Award 2021 at the AKS Education Awards – is a graduate of the Department of Primary Education , University of Patras.

He makes short films, in which his students become young actors that convey important social messages. His films have won many awards in international competitions and have been screened at several film festivals in Greece and abroad. Two of them (“SOSivio” and “Ah afto to au”) have been awarded the Honorary Prize at the West Side Mountains Doc Fest. The film “SOSivio” won the Audience Award at the 8th MICE Film Festival in Valencia. Also, the film “You can do anything, as long as you believe in it!” was awarded the First Prize at the Our Voices Film Festival in Vancouver and was awarded by the United Nations at the PLURAL + Youth Video Festival. Finally, the Alvorada International School Film Festival (FECEA) awarded the Production Design Award for the film “ELEFTHERIA: 200 years since the Greek Revolution”.

For the innovation of the introduction of cinema as an educational practice, Nikos Galanis was honored with the GOLD award at the Education Leaders Awards 2019 and was nominated for “Person of the Year” award.

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