Brikena Xhomaqi is the Director of the Lifelong Learning Platform - European Civil Society for Education since 2016. LLLPlatform represents over 40 European wide civil society networks in the field of education from early childhood to adult education, including formal, non-formal and informal learning providers and learners unions.
She is the co-chair of the European Economic and Social Committee Liaison Group of Civil Society since January 2020. She is the former member of the Civil Society Europe Steering Committee, Head of Office of the European Students’ Union (ESU) and Director of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN). She was active in civil society from early ages as an elected representative of different school and university student bodies.
In 2010 she joined the civil society at European level initially as elected representative of the European Students’ Union in charge of social affairs, later on, she specialised on student mobility issues in particular inclusiveness of mobility programmes but also issues related to social inclusion and labour market integration of young people as well as their participation in society and policy-making processes.