Lucia Pizzato
Lucia Pizzato has a degree in Comparative International Relations and over three years’ experience in project management and specialises in the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme. Her expertise focuses on initiatives to develop entrepreneurial skills and support entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning, leading to the empowerment of aspiring entrepreneurs active in all sectors and the promotion of innovation culture.
Georg Russegger
Georg Russegger (Vienna, Austria) is a Media-Artist, Communication Scientist and holds a PHD in Media-Athropology. For the last decade, he has been active in knowledge transfer and exchange for SSHA and STEAM in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Since May 2024 he is the newly assigned director of the Open Innovation in Science and Art Center at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft. He works and operates at the crossroads of open innovation and human-computer interaction. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and knowledge valorization for academia, society, and the economy are key. He endeavors to open artistic and creative design methods for outreach, engagement, and education with agile impact. Skills transfer, capacity, and community building to empower and open up people’s desires to deal with global challenges and work together for a better future.
Barbara Stacher
Barbara is from Vienna/Austria and is a Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)’s Cultural Policy Unit. Her field of work is cultural policy making, in particular the crossroads of cultural and creative sectors/ industries/spaces and how to contribute in terms of city and regional development, social inclusion, job creation, participation, linking up creative sectors and policy-makers, creative hubs and cultural and creative spaces and helped to set up the CreativesUnite platform. She also works on cultural and creative industries, innovation and finance concerning policies as well as projects. She focusses also on artists’ and creative professionals working conditions in her work with the OMC (Open Method of Coordination) EU Member States’ expert group and beyond.
Ilona Lelonek Husting
Policy Officer at the Unit for “Proximity, Social economy and Creative Industries” of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission.
She is in charge of policies and programmes in support of creative industries with particular focus on entrepreneurship, competitiveness and skills.
At European Commission since April 2009, she has been in charge of various files in the fields of tourism, social economy and creative industries. During 2004-2009 she was a Parliamentary Assistant to the Member of the European Parliament.
She holds a Master degree in Economics and International relations from the Cracow University of Economics (Poland). She also studied management and territorial development at the University Pierre Mendès France in Grenoble (France).
Umberto Bellodi
UMBERTO BELLODI – Born in 1977. Cultural operator since 1996. Currently coordinating the Stagecraft department of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan and advising the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels as an expert evaluator. He is also active at regional and community level leading cultural organisations based in the Southern Lombardy area. In the frame of the Large Scale Partnership for the Cultural and Creative Industries, he is coordinating the Working Group on cross-sectoral innovation.
Thomas Arctaedius
Thomas Arctaedius is adjunct professor in entrepreneurship at Royal College of Music in, Stockholm, Sweden. Thomas research on and teach Artistic Entrepreneurship and
Interdisciplinary Practices and Methods. Thomas currently works in a research group on “Artistic co-creation methods for innovation and sustainability”. Thomas is also a board member for innovation support and incubators in Sweden. Thomas focus is to develop new ways for culture and art to create impact on society in new and unexpected ways.
Thomas also works with CSES, Center for Social entrepreneurship Sweden, in several different EU projects focusing on social and cultural entrepreneurship. Thomas is strongly connected to the Swedish eco-system of innovation, working as advisor to universities and governmental agencies.
Martin Q Larsson
Martin Q Larsson is Manager for the creative incubator Katapult Subtopia, Stockholm, Sweden, and President for creARTive, the Swedish national network for creative incubators. He has been deeply in love with cross innovation since 2020, and in November 2023 Subtopia presented Cross Con – the international conference for cross innovation. Originally a classical composer and musician, he has a deep and broad experience of European creative economy, arts policy, workshop facilitation and business coaching.
https://subtopia.se/located-here/katapult-incubator/
https://creartivesweden.se/about-creartive/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinqlarsson/
Susana Nogueira
Susana Nogueira has a degree in Criminal Psychology, and an experience of almost 10 years working in several Erasmus+ funded projects focused on the development of technical and transversal skills in areas such Defence or Additive Manufacturing, and Inclusive Education or Digitalisation, aligned with current EU policies and strategies for vocational education and training (VET). Susana has been working in such projects both as coordinator and as researcher, contributing for the development and sustainability of projects’ results.
She is currently representing EfVET in Cyanotypes (blueprint project) and MOSAIC (Centres of Vocational Excellence – CoVES – project), aimed at addressing the future skills needs and gaps of the CCI sector, and at fostering Vocational Excellence in Arts and Crafts, respectively.
Gijs Gootjes
Gijs Gootjes (1982) is the director of the EIT Culture & Creativity CLC for the region North West. With a background in Media, Design, Digital he was the co-founder of international talent and impact initiatives such as Digital Society School and the Global Goals Jam. Now he is building the Amsterdam based Co-Location Center for the region North West of the EIT Culture & Creativity KIC.
Covering a wide and diverse region, from Ireland in the west to the UK, Benelux countries, and northern France, the CLC connects and integrates initiatives in the cultural and creative ecosystem that reflects the rich diversity of players, practices and networks, to enhance the ability of the cultural and creative sector to drive economic, societal, and green change.
Lucrezia Micheli
Lucrezia MICHELI (1993*) is a psychologist with a Master’s degree in Clinical and Forensic Psychodiagnostics. She is a Gyrotonic® trainer and a former professional dancer. She works as a researcher at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and is a member of the Health Humanities Laboratory, where she collaborates on research, training, and scientific dissemination activities.
She is participating in the “Pharma-HUB – HUB for Drug Repurposing and Rare Diseases and Nervous System Diseases in Paediatric Age-POS 2014-2020-TRAJECTORY 4- ACTION 4.I” project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. Their involvement focuses on topics related to communication, training, and social inclusion, with a particular emphasis on health humanities.
