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- External Relations: Develop and implement a stakeholder engagement strategy towards EU policy makers, key actors and opinion leaders, to safeguard Europeana’s interests and influence key policy decisions and funding.- Advocacy: Develop positions on policy topics of interest to Europeana's mission and vision, strengthen understanding and awareness of what the organisation does, the value it provides and where it sits in the cultural and political landscape. - Corporate communications: Lead corporate communications to promote understanding and awareness of and build wider support for Europeana’s work. - Strategic planning: Develop an overarching annual communication strategy, which supports an integrated approach to communications, marketing and stakeholder engagement, to help deliver on the organisations’ strategic objectives.

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Policy and advocacy work: Coordinate Europa Nostra’s advocacy strategy in Brussels. Draft, coordinate, consult with members and edit policy content produced by Europa Nostra. Coordinate Europa Nostra's contribution to EU expert groups, notably the Global Solving Platform on Cultural Heritage, the Cultural Heritage Expert Group of the European Commission and the structured dialogue between the cultural sector and the European Commission. Coordinate the European Heritage Alliance, an informal sectoral platform composed of 51 European and international networks and organisations active in the field of cultural heritage.- Project management: Coordinate Europa Nostra's participation in two EU-funded collaborative projects, notably “ILUCIDARE” on heritage-led innovation (total budget € 2,869,290 funded by the Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation programme of the EU), and the peer-learning project for cities and regions “Cultural Heritage in Action" (total budget € 500,000 funded by the Creative Europe programme of the EU). Contribute to drafting EU project proposals and tenders.- Dissemination and outreach: Represent Europa Nostra in events, conferences and working groups. Contribute to the successful implementation of Europa Nostra’s communication strategy, including by providing policy content.

Independent Consultant for the "3rd International Symposium on Cultural Heritage- Exchange of experiences between specialists from EU and Mexico" organised by the Delegation of the European Union in Mexico in collaboration with the Mexican Ministry of Culture, the National Institute of Anthropology and History and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature.

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Policy work: researching, analysing and synthesising information to draft policy papers, preparing briefings and speeches and contributing to strategic EU policy documents related to cultural heritage. Providing input for the design of actions within the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. Pen holder for the first-ever European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage published by the European Commission in December 2018. - Stakeholders' management: ensuring regular and effective communication with National Coordinators in 28 Member States, the Stakeholders' Committee (composed of 38 civil society and international organisations such as the UNESCO and the Council of Europe), different Commission Directorates and EU Delegations across the world.- Dissemination and outreach: ensuring the quality and timely delivery of the external communication strategy, assist in the planning and execution of meetings, workshops and events with external stakeholders. - Reporting: periodical monitoring of activities and drafting internal and public monitoring reports.

- Capacity-building: part of the team designing, implementing and evaluating the 2016 International Summer School for Cooperation and Local Development (30 participants). - Research: development of the publication 'Compendium of good practices in local development strategies in Latin America'. Tasks included drafting, analysing over 40 case studies and coordinating inputs by external experts.

- Policy analysis: providing expertise for the project 'Cultural Attractors for Tourism and Employment in Southern Italian Regions' for the Italian Ministry of Culture, Heritage and Tourism: assessing policies for local development through cultural assets and contributing to regional reviews (OECD Peer-review methodology). - Policy development: conducting comparative research, collecting and analysing data to support evidence-based policy recommendations.

Mexico

- Fundraising: securing funding and activating strategic partnerships; planning and executing fundraising strategies, preparing and managing funding proposals and managing relations with stakeholders.

Master Of Science (Msc), Cultural Economics And Arts Management, 110/110 Cum Laude

Final thesis: Creation as an act of labour: exploring the conditions of (precarious) artistic employment. A comparison between Italy.

European Cultural Policy

Semester abroad with Erasmus scholarship.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations, 95/100 Honorific Mention For Outstanding Academic Performance

BA thesis: Is there really a Common European Foreign Policy? Implications for the EU as a global actor.

Cep- Certificat D'Études Politiques, Political Studies And International Relations

Activities and Societies: Year abroadMultidisciplinary program in the field of social sciences and an in-depth analysis of contemporary.