Rebecca Katsaris

Rebecca Katsaris is an early years educator, educational programme designer and project manager based in Cyprus. She holds a degree in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Psychology from the University of Cyprus, studied at the University of Granada through the Erasmus Programme, and earned an MRes in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.

With over 18 years of international experience across Cyprus, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Colombia, Rebecca designs interdisciplinary educational programmes that combine environmental education, the creative arts, storytelling, music, philosophy, and experiential learning. Since 2022, she has coordinated the award-winning initiative Increasing Marine Environmental Awareness Through the Creative Arts, implemented under the auspices of Enalia Physis Environmental Research Center and funded through the Cyprus Environment Foundation. The initiative promotes ocean literacy, ecological empathy, and marine identity through arts-based education and has received international recognition from UNESCO-IOC, EU4Ocean, BlueMissionMed, and the European Commission.

Rebecca regularly collaborates with museums, galleries, schools, universities, and environmental organisations, while presenting her work at international conferences and contributing to research on marine environmental education, creative pedagogies, and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability education.