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Milena Dragicevic Sesic, President of the Jury (Serbia) Ritva Mitchell, Jury member (Finland) Jacques Bonniel, Jury member (France) Lluis Bonet, Jury member (Spain) Veronika Ratzenböck, Jury member (Austria) Michael W. Quine, Jury member (UK) Mikko Lagerspetz, Jury member (Estonia)
Milena Dragicevic Sesic,President of the Jury (Serbia)
	Director of UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management University of Arts Belgrade, professor (Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, Cultural studies, Media studies) at Faculty of Drama Arts; president of the Orientation Board of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management (Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels); Former President of the University of Arts in Belgrade; Member of the Art & Culture Sub Board, Open Society Institute (Soros fund), Budapest. Lecturer: Moscow School of Social and Economical Sciences, MA-AMEC Utrecht School of the Arts, CEU Budapest, I.E.P. Grenoble, Lyon II, Jagiellonian University Krakow, etc.
Published 15 books and more then 100 essays. Translated in English, German, Chinese, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Macedonian, Romanian, Albanian, Mongolian, Turkish and French. Expert, consultant in cultural policy and management for the European Cultural Foundation, Council of Europe, UNESCO, Marcel Hicter Foundation, Pro Helvetia, British Council, etc. Realized and developed more than 80 projects in cultural policy and management (policy trainings, strategic management analysis and planning, capacity building trainings etc.) in South East Europe but also in Belgium, France, Finland, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Egypt, Jordan, etc.
Ritva Mitchell, Jury member (Finland)
	Director of Research CUPORE (Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research) and lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Social Sciences. Former President of the Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and the European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts (ERICArts). Former President of the Orientation Board of the European Diploma of Cultural Project Management (Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels). Lecturer at the Sibelius Academy of Music (MA Programme in Arts Management) in Helsinki. Presently she is involved in many European financed research projects (Women in the Arts and Media Professions, Creative Europe, Transmission, Compendium of Cultural Policies, Transformation of Nordic Cultural Policies). Member of the editorial board of the journal Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift (Nordic Cultural Policy Journal). She has written widely on youth cultures, artists, cultural policies, new technologies and European issues in Finland and in Europe.
Former Head of Research at the Arts Council of Finland. She worked at the Council of Europe as a Programme Advisor (1992-1997). Earlier she worked at the University of Helsinki (Department of Political Science) and the Academy of Finland (four year research project on Equality and Democracy). At that time she was the secretary of the Finnish Political Science Association (1974-1976) and a member of the board of that association (1977-1979). She has been a part time secretary of the cultural division of the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO (1975-1983).
Jacques Bonniel, Jury member (France)
	Jacques BONNIEL is Maître de Conférences in Sociology at the University Lumière LYON2 France. He is also director of a post-grad (master) in cultural project management (« Développement culturel et Direction de Projet Management of Cultural Projects») at the same University and co-organizer of a post-grad « Cultural management and policies in the Balkans » with the University of Arts in Belgrade and the University of Grenoble II. He conducts research for different regional and national departments, mainly about cultural policies and published books, articles and research reports about subjects in the field of culture. He also participates to various national or regional working groups about these subjects. He was Dean of Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology (University of Lyon, 1995 - 2005). Jacques Bonniel is president of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres ENCATC.
Lluis Bonet, Jury member (Spain)
	Professor of the University of Barcelona, and former President of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers (ENCATC). Vice-President of the European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES), and of Abacus (the largest Spanish cooperative on education and culture). Board member of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI). External advisor in cultural policies, statistics and economics at the Council of Europe, the European Union, the Inter-American Development Banc, UNESCO, and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI). Member of several scientific boards of publications, international conferences, training courses, and panels of judges for awards. In 2002 got the Research Award of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia.
Teaching Activity: since 1989 Director of the Graduate Programmes on Cultural Management of the University of Barcelona. Professor on Graduate courses at the University of Barcelona concerning Cultural Economics, Cultural Industries, and Cultural Policy. Assistant Professor of a semester course on Cultural Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991). Invited Professor in different graduate programmes on arts and heritage management, and Lecturer of several courses and seminars in more than 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and the USA and Canada. Research Activities and Publications: Director of a large number of research studies in cultural economics and cultural policies. Research Director in Cultural Economics at the Centre d'Estudis de Planificació (1985-95). Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-92).
Veronika Ratzenböck, Jury member (Austria)
	Director and founder of the "Österreichische Kulturdokumentation, Internationales Archiv für Kulturanalysen", an extra-university institute for applied cultural research and cultural documentation founded in 1991. Applying an interdisciplinary approach, the institute documents, analyses and publicises national, European and international developments in culture, cultural policy and cultural research. (www.kulturdokumentation.org) Research projects on culture, economic and social history of the 20th and 21st century; Visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy of Law at the University of Salzburg (subject: "the European project") and lecturer in cultural studies and cultural policy at the University of Vienna. Since 1998 expert consultant to the Council of Europe, Programme: Evaluation on national cultural policies (Croatia and Bosnia&Herzegovina).Member for the selection panel for the European Capital of Culture 2010 in Brussels 2006, nominated by the European Parliament.
Focus of research and advisory work: Comparative cultural policy, European cultural and media policy and cultural aspects of European integration, cultural and creative industries, urban cultural policy, culture and employment, EU cultural policy, cultural studies (Examples: Study "Exploitation and development of the job potential in the cultural sector" 2001, commissioned by the European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs, in cooperation with MKW Wirtschaftsforschung and others; : "Cultural Competence. New Technologies, Culture % Employment" 1999, or the study "The potential of Creative Industries in Vienna" commissioned by the City of Vienna, the Vienna Filmfonds, the Vienna Chamber Institute , and the European Fund for Regional Development, 2004 (www.creativeindustries.at).
Michael W. Quine, Jury member (UK)
	Senior Lecturer in Arts Management and former Acting Head of Department, Department of Arts Policy & Management, City University London. An extensive career in managing arts organisations, in educating arts managers and in research. Initially from a theatre background, his interests range from the economics of the arts to arts marketing and financing, and into international comparisons. His international teaching experience includes countries as diverse as the US, Greece, Finland, Moldova, Spain and he is now a frequent visitor to Russia, especially St Petersburg. He is a founding member a multi-university exchange programme, funded by the EU SOCRATES programme, encouraging staff and student mobility as well as annual conferences.
For six years until 2005 he was a Vice-Chair and Board member of ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres). He organised the first non-Francophone AIMAC conference, in London in 1995, and also works within the Scientific Committee for subsequent conferences (in Australia, Helsinki, San Francisco, Milan and Tronto in 2005) dealing with research into international comparisons of these and a range of wider policy issues. President of the Thomassen Fund in support of the mobility of educators and trainers in arts management.
Mikko Lagerspetz, Jury member (Estonia)
	Professor of Sociology at the Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Director of the Centre for Civil Society Research and Development at the Tallinn University, Estonia. Born and educated in Finland, and resides in Estonia since 1989. Lecturer of Sociology at the Estonian Institute of Humanities (EIH) of the Tallinn University (1990-1997), Professor of Sociology 1997- (from 2006 with a part-time working load), Rector of the EIH 1998-2001. From 2006, Professor of Sociology at the Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Docent of Sociology at the University of Turku, 1997-. President, Estonian Association of Sociologists, 1998-2003 (re-elected twice). Member of the Board, Open Estonia Foundation, 2001-2004. Honorary Member, Wind Orchestra of the University of Turku, 1991. Involved in research and evaluation of Estonian cultural policies.
Research on cultural policies, social problems, and civil society. Publications (among others): Constructing Post-Communism (Turku, 1996); Estonian Cultural Policy and Its Impact, 1988-1995 (with Rein Raud; Strasbourg, 1996); recent articles: "How many Nordic countries? Possibilities and limits of geopolitical identity construction". Cooperation and Conflict, 2003; "Drugs and Doublethink in a Marginalised Community". Critical Criminology, 2005 (with Airi-Alina Allaste). top of page