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Stefan Horn has worked internationally as a free-lance curator, cultural manager, set, lighting and exhibition designer and in the field of visual communications. He has gathered years of experience in the conceptualization, direction and production of artistic and cultural projects on a local, European and international level. Since 2000 he is the artistic director of the Berlin-based art association urban dialogues, which engages with all manner of change and flux in relation to urban and social issues through site-specific and community-based art projects and urban interventions. He lives in Berlin and Windhoek/Namibia.

Peter Panes was active in promoting international understanding and intercultural dialogue as a DAAD lecturer and employee of the Goethe-Institut in Germany, South America and numerous countries in southern Europe. From 2010 to 2017, he directed the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. In the last few years, the focus of his cultural work has been in the fields of the creative economy, cultural exchanges, urban development and European cultures of memory. In 2018, he was appointed to be a member of the new advisory council of the City of Thessaloniki, responsible for promoting German-Greek cultural relations.

Olga Tabouris-Babalis is an Arts and Cultural Management Professional. She is collaborating with cultural institutions and foundations in Greece and abroad. Her extensive experience includes the position of the Artistic Director of Sani Festival for 22 consecutive years, as well as the position of the General Director of the Northern Greece Entrepreneurs Cultural Society. Also, she has been the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the cultural revue “Thessalonikeon Polis” and in 2013 she was appointed as the Programme Manager and Executive Artistic Coordinator for the 48th DIMITRIA performing arts festival.

With studies in Performing Arts and Communication, Media & Culture, Angeliki Mitropoulou is a restless performer and cultural manager. Founder of "KYMA Project -Inclusive dance" platform and co-founder of the non profit organization "Motivo" based in Athens. Scaling Grant awardee by the J.S.Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, Member of the Bosch Alumni Network and  Ashoka Changemakers alumna . Determined to disseminate inclusive practices she is an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. Experienced workshop facilitator, movement instructor and public speaking coach. Fascinated by the prospect of new experiences and an ambitious world traveler.

Aris Kalogiros studied German Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has a Master Degree in Literature and Cultural Studies. Specializing in the field of audio-visual translation, he lectured “translation and subtitling” at the Aristotle University and worked several years as a freelance translator and subtitler. Since 2011 he is part of the cultural department of the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, coordinating visual arts-, film-, music- and theater-projects. In 2014, the fields of cultural management, cultural entrepreneurship and creative economy were added into the strategy and activities of the Goethe-Institut.