Mentor BackgroundEgle is designer and entrepreneur. She has taken her master’s in system design in Oslo Metropolitan University.
Her background is interdisciplinary. She has worked a lot as a student politician and had several leadership positions there. These positions helped her to develop her expertise in leadership, conflict management and problem solving in practice. In the 2019-2020 she was a representative at OsloMet University Board. Here she learned a lot about the development of a big and complex organisation and promoting user perspectives in discussions and decision making.
Through her full-time position as a Responsible for Academic Affairs in Student Parliament, she has worked with implementation of innovation, entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary collaboration in education.
Egles’ experience from and competencies gained through student democracy helps her to lead her own business. She is structured and curious. Through her start-up Tiny Workers, she produces Pollinator Parks – areas for wild bees and other pollinating insects in the urban area. The aim of the project is to help combat the declining wild bee population by improving their living conditions, spreading knowledge to the population and motivating measures in private gardens.