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Sabrina Apitz is project coordinator and consultant of Kulturförderpunkt Berlin, the first point of contact for Berlin artists, associations and actors of the independent scene seeking information on the subject of cultural promotion and financing. She is a freelance project manager and curator and a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and [...]

Laure Verbruggen (Master Cultural Work and Film & Visual Culture) works as Project Manager for The Festival Academy, a non-profit organization initiated by the European Festivals Association (EFA). The Festival Academy has grown out of the success of the Ateliers for Young Festival Managers, and offers unique, intense and rigorous training programmes on festival management

Mieke Renders is the Managing Director of Trans Europe Halles. Before she moved to Sweden, she was the general manager of the Flemish Cultural Center ‘De Brakke Grond’ in Amsterdam and worked as cultural attaché for Flanders House in New York. She has studied physical anthropology and arts management, which led her to start of

Mercedes Giovinazzo Marín is Director of Interarts, an NGO specialized in international cultural co-operation and president of the Biennale des Jeunes Artistes de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée – BJCEM. Previous posts include: Director of Services and Deputy Director of Customer Services, Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona; Administrator, Division of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage,

Kalina Wagenstein graduated from Sofia University. She has worked in film and theatre production, as well as in donor organizations. In 2007 she created the Art Office Foundation which represents Bulgarian artists in the country and abroad. Ms. Wagenstein performs trainings in Project Cycle Management for Bulgarian NGOs. She speaks English, French and Russian.

Lorna Duguid is currently Multi Art form manager for Creative Scotland. She is the Creative Scotland programme lead for the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo fund and for the Platforms for Creative Excellence Fund, which provide support for Edinburgh’s Festivals. She is also project lead on the Creative Scotland Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance and has

Karla Horvat Crnogaj from Zagreb has been working for the last 10 years in the Croatian organization Domino. As executive producer of the organization, she coordinates the festivals Queer Zagreb, Perforacije, Queer New York Arts International and Sounded Bodies. She leads the program Night of Performances, now being held in 7 Croatian cities, and chairs a

Marta Martins is Executive director of ARTEMREDE, a Portuguese network created in 2005 that gathers 16 municipalities and promotes the development of the territories through artistic creation, cultural mediation strategies, capacity-building activities and policy-making. She has a degree in Law, a Postgraduate degree in Cultural Management in Cities and a Master Degree in Culture Studies.

Marie Le Sourd is since 2012 the Secretary General of On the Move. Prior to this position, she worked in Singapore for the Asia-Europe Foundation (Cultural Department) from 1999 till 2006 and directed the French Cultural Centre in Yogyakarta-Indonesia from 2006 till 2011. She has over the years nurtured a knowledge pool on international cultural cooperation,

Grzegorz Reske is performing arts curator and producer. Part of ResKeil duo (with Marta Keil). Between 2012-2017 they were co-curating Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin. Currently Reske is associate of East European Performing Arts Platform, part of collective Performing Arts Institute of Warsaw. He collaborates also with Labirynt Gallery in Lublin and teach in Lublin (UMCS) and