FIELD(S) OF WORK:
Molecular biology, molecular virology, gene transfer, gene therapy

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
art management, cultural research, cultural policy

SHORT CV:
AltArt Foundation, Cluj/RO
Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj/RO

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
molecular biology adenoviruses cell survival and proliferation

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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Surname(s) / First name(s) Nikolina Stojanović
Address(es) Bijenička 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail: nstojan@irb.hr
Nationality: Croatian
Date of birth: November 15th 1984

WORK EXPERIENCE
2009 - present
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka 54, Zagreb, Croatia
Research assistant (PhD student) , Division of Molecular Biology, Laboratory for Genotoxic Agens

EDUCATION
2010 - present
Zagreb, Croatia
PhD Studies in Molecular Biosciences,
University of Osijek

2003 - 2009
Zagreb, Croatia
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb, molecular biology
B.Sc., molecular biologist

1999 - 2003
Zagreb, Croatia
“XV. gimnazija” high school
High school graduate

TRAINING
Year 2008 - 11th CEEPUS Biomedicine Students Council Summer University, Molecular Diagnostics, Multidisciplinary Approach.
Zadar, Croatia

Year 2008 - Adenoviruses: Basic biology to gene therapy (FEMS)
Zadar, Croatia

Year 2009 - 2nd European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Scientists Forum
Zagreb, Croatia

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Mother tongue(s) Croatian
Other language(s) English, German

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Cell culture, bacterial culture, PCR, Real time PCR, electrophoresis, transfection, FACS, MTT assay, spectrofotometry, SDS-PAGE and Western analysis)

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
mathematics,elections, political science

SHORT CV:
I finished my studies in Interdisciplinary Physics - Geophysics (specialization: Seismology). I was/am teaching mathematics. I am involved in work with elections also. I am working on my PhD in applied mathematics and political science.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
contemporary art, sculpture, activism, public art

SHORT CV:
born 12.08.1974, Bratislava, Slovakia
lives and works in Bratislava
EDUCATION AND STAYS
2010 Art.D., Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Artist in Residence, Meetfacory, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Artist in Residence, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2005 Artist in residence, Add on, Kunst in Offentlichen Raum, Vienna, Austria
2004 International Studio & Curatorial Program /ISCP/ New York, USA 1999 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996–98 Master Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia Sculpture department of Prof. Jozef Jankovič
1992–96 Bachelor Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Prof. Jozef Jankovič

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
visual arts, curating, mailing list, art & culture magazine publishing

SHORT CV:
Vladimir US (born in 1980, artist & curator based in Chisinau, Moldova, founder member of Oberliht Association: http://oberliht.com ).
Through his recent works and projects he is questioning the process of formation of the public space in post-soviet cities and other territories in transition. In 2006 he has co-curated the „A step aside” project organized by Session 15 of Ecole du MAGASIN – international curatorial training program in Grenoble, France: http://www.ecoledumagasin.com/session15

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
architecture urbanism

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
International Relations; Former Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, EU Enlargement, EU politics, Democratization and Transformation, Civil Society, Post-War-Developments, Nation- and State-Building, United Nations, Youth Work, Nationalism, Sports, Migration, Culture

SHORT CV:
■Born 1976 in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegowina
■Lives and works between Vienna and the Balkans
■Studied Political Sciences, Communication Sciences, History at the University of Vienna (MA and PhD).
■Since 2000 Assistant and Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Political Sciences, University of Vienna and at the MA-Postgraduate Studies “Balkan Studies” in Vienna and Bratislava;
■Lecturer at the MA-Programme “State management and humanitarian affairs” at the University in Sarajevo; Lecturer at the Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna.
■Since 2005 Director of CEIS (Center for European Integration Strategies), Geneva-Sarajevo-Vienna;
■2005-2006 Project Leader and Senior Researcher, Imaginations of Europe. Comparing Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, NODE, (New Orientations for Democracy in Europe);
■2006 Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book (Kosovo-Bilanz – together with Helmut Kramer);
■2008-present senior Researcher and Co-Chief of Party, Project: Transformation and Democratization of the Balkans, Coordination of the Research Platform “POTREBA” (www.univie.ac.at/potreba).
■Member of OGPW (Austrian Society for Political Sciences), Center for European Integration Strategies, CEIS (www.ceis-eu.org), Democratization Policy Council (democratizationpolicy.org), Südosteuropagesellschaft, Munich, projectXchange, Vienna (www.projectxchange.at)
■Numerous Publications (monographies/edited books and articles in German, English and Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian), lectures, conferences, workshops (in the USA, China, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Slovakia, Belgium) and electronic and print media contributions on various topics

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
cultural management

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
Political Science Africa Studies Regional Co-operation, Regionalisation, Globalisation Intercultural Communication, Political Communication I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science and teach at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs, Hungary\'s oldest university. I have a social science research company also running Publikon Publishers, a dynamically developing publisher.

SHORT CV:
István Tarrósy (1973) is assistant professor at the Department of Political Studies of the University of Pécs, as well as secretary and co-ordinator of the university’s Africa Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science with summa cum laude in the summer of 2009. He is member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Political Science Association, the Hungary-Africa Platform and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Democracy in East Africa (IDEA), Kenya. Founder, editor and publisher of the journal Africa Studies, Hungary. He has published more than 50 papers, studies and articles, and edited more than 15 volumes. His research themes include: North-South relations and globalisation, East-African transitions and the development of the Tanzanian state, Sino-African and Afro-Asian relations.
He is owner and managing director of IDResearch Ltd./Publikon Publishers and he has been founder and organiser of the Summer School series of the Danube Rectors' Conference (DRC). He is also founder and main organiser of ICWiP, the International Culture Week in Pecs since 1997.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
architecture, city planning, urban design, teaching,

SHORT CV:
studies in Romania and Germany, co-owner of architecture and city planning office since ten years, teaching at the Architecture Faculty in Cluj since 7 years, prizes of city planning and public space projects in several cities in Transilvania. member of the Urban Issues working group in the Architects Council of Europe.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
IT department

SHORT CV:
- born in Tuzla , BIH
-engineer of information technologies, MCTS for SQL databases and SQL server
- working as a programmer and web designer
-fluent in English, Bosnian, basic knowledge in German, Spanish, Italian.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
visual art intermedia and multimedia

SHORT CV:
Jaro Varga
born 10th August 1982, Trebisov Slovakia
Address: Zadunajska cesta 6A, 85101 Bratislava, Slovakia

Education:
2005-2010: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Intermedia and Multimedia
2000-2005: University of Presov, Faculty of Humanities Sciences, Department of Arts

Awards, Residencies, Scholarships:
2010: Artist in Residence, Museums Quartier 21 (Tranzit,, Erste bank), Vienna
2010: Finalist of Oskar Cepan Award - Young Visual Artist Award, SK
2009: 850 Greene Ave Art Residency (Futura Project Prague), New York, USA
2009: Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Department of Fine Arts, USA
2009: Art Residency, Castel Trebesice, CZ
2008: Finalist of Oskar Cepan Award - Young Visual Artist Award, SK
2006-2007: Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, PL
2006: National Gallery in Wroclaw, PL

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010: "Where do we go from here?", curated by Bettina Spörr, Secession Vienna, AT
2010: The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery Praetorium building, Banská Bystrica, curated by Mira Keratova, SK
2009: Exit Ghost, Gallery Valentina Moncada, Rome, curated by Giulliana Stella , IT
2009: Fantazies of Beginning, Billboard Gallery Europe, Bratislava, curated by Mira Keratova, SK
2008: ENDING, One-week international art residency at Hotel Kyjev, Bratislava, curated by Lillian Fellmann, SK
2007: International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, PL
2007: SURVIVAL 5, Public Art Project in Wroclaw, PL

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2009: Library in Library, Bailey Library, Slippery Rock University, USA
2006: Dangerous sequences, Gallery HIT, Bratislava, SK

Other activities:
from 2007: Coordinator and curator of non-profit art space Gallery HIT in Bratislava, www.galeriahit.com

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
Film Production

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
- political science - cultural programmes in rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina - interreligous education

SHORT CV:
Born 1984 in Tuzla. Has studied Political and administrative science in Konstanz/Germany. Now writting my master-theses at the Political sciences at the University of Sarajevo.
Since 2005 working at the Goethe-Institut in Sarajevo (part time). Since 2007 executive director of the NGO Sarajevski otvoreni centar.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
contemporary art art criticism cultural policy journalism

SHORT CV:
Art-critic, art manager, policy analyst, translator. Director of the Foundation Center for Contemporary Art.

Born in 1976 in Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine

MA in theory and history of culture from the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2001.

1999 – becomes cultural program director at OSI in Kyiv, managing 1 mln USD program, being on board of the international arts and culture network and launching the very first cultural policy program in the country.

2001 – launches the first artistic NGO association in the country - Ukrainian Art Forum, holding more than 40 members.

2004 – launches KUKA, an independent cultural communication consultancy that serves as a partner and a co-organizer of a wide variety of local and international cultural programs and projects (Poetry International Web, Black/North SEAS, European Cultural Parliament, EUNIC-Ukraine). KUKA provides unique services of media and communication support for non-profit artistic initiatives as well as cultural sponsorship projects.

2007 – working for the biggest museum project in Ukraine – Arts Arsenal on a position of local and international communication expert, working as well on policy issues.

2008 – co-founder of KrAM – Criticism of Actual Art – online critical magazine.

2009 – program director and then as a executive director for the Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, one of the very few NGOs working in visual arts and focusing on education, young artists and audience development, and social and political issues.

2010 – expert for EU Eastern Partnership Cultural Program

Member of European Cultural Parliament

cca.kiev.ua
korydor.in.ua
kram.in.ua

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
art, culture, education, activism

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
screenwriter, director

SHORT CV:
Writer and director Goran Rebic was born 1968 in Vrsac / Vojvodina, former Yugoslavia and grew up in Vienna, where he studied film directing. He shot his first full length feature in 1996. Jugofilm is a film about nationalist disillusions of his homeland and stars Merab Ninidze and Eva Mattes. His second feature was the road movie Danube (2003), starring Otto Sander, Robert Stadlober and Sonja Savic, where a group of passengers is returning home, traveling on a ship along the Danube river downstream through the Balkan countries. He also directed the documentaries During the Many Years (1991) and At the Edge of the World (1992), which were shot during the independency and the civil-war in Georgia, as well as The Punishment (2000), where he presented unheard voices from Belgrade between NATO-bombings and the millennium celebrities. His short films include Domovina (1990), a mixture of road movie and musical, which deals with the upcoming outbreak of the Balkan wars. Besides developing the feature Francuski, a tragic comedy about a Soviet prisoner, Goran Rebic is currently also preparing another feature Renegade, about a young woman, returning to her parents' war torn serbian homeland.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
political science / political theory literature / creative writing

SHORT CV:
Igor Stiks is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Northwestern University (USA). In March 2009 he defended his PhD thesis 'A Laboratory of Citizenship: Nations and Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States'. He is also the author of two novels, 'A Castle in Romagna' and 'Elijah's Chair', which have won numerous awards and have been translated into a dozen European languages.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
architecture, culture

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
contemporary art, curatorial practices, (self)education

SHORT CV:
Nataša Bodrožić (Split, 1978) is a cultural worker and journalist. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb (BA in Journalism) in 2004. In 2008 she finished the program Laboratory of the Curatorial Practices/ World of Art School at Center for Contemporary Arts (SCCA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She holds MA degree at The University of Arts in Belgrade/UNESCO Chair for Cultural Management and Cultural Policy in the Balkans.

Since 2009, she has been the head of the organization “Loose Associations, contemporary art practices” (founded with Ivana Meštrov and Tonka Maleković) dealing with critical research on contemporary art practices. So far she co-curated several exhibitions and public space projects in Croatia and abroad: Future was Yesterday: self-organized artistic practices from Ukraine (Zagreb), CHIOSC (Zagreb), Possibility of the city (Chisinau, Moldova), Interventions3: Artistic interventions in public space (Chisinau, Moldova); Something in common? (Chisinau, Moldova), Google Tourist (Ljubljana, Slovenia) etc. She co-moderated more than fifteen interdisciplinary discussions on contemporary art in the course of the program Slobodne veze/ Loose Associations that has been running in Zagreb since 2007.

From 2004 to2008 she collaborated with Queer Zagreb festival as a production associate. She was the initiator of the regional literary project Queer Stories and co-editor of the book Poqueerene priče (Domino, Zagreb 2004).

So far she has been awarded with several scholarships and grants: CEC Artslink, French Government scholarships, Soros Supplementary Grant and Gulliver connect/ Kulturkontakt grant.

Currently lives and works in Zagreb.

FIELD(S) OF WORK:
curating, art history, art critique

SHORT CV:
Mira Keratová (1977) is curator and critic of contemporary art. She studied at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava. Currently she is PhD. candidate at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
Some of her latest curatorial projects are Fantasies of the Beginning, Bratislava – Petržalka, 2008-9; Working Memory, Tranzit, Bratislava 2009 (with L. Gavulová); The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica 2010; (www.workingmemory.sk)
At the moment she is working as a Guest Curator in GASK / Central Bohemian Gallery in Prague and Kutna Hora. (www.gask.cz)