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Jacek is a Polish architectural historian and economist. After completing his studies at the Krakow University of Economics (UEK), he obtained a doctorate in art history from the Jagiellonian University in 1983.
He is now a professor in both institutions. He heads the Department of Economic and Social History and the Department of Cultural Heritage and Urban Studies of UEK, as well as the Department of European Heritage at Jagiellonian University. Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the founder of the Krakow International Cultural Center, of which he was the director until 2018. From 2000 to 2016, he chaired the Council for the Protection of Monuments of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Jacek Purchla is also a member of several associations and international organisations related to heritage, including Europa Nostra, the International Committee of Art History and the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on the theory and philosophy of conservation and restoration. He is the author of several Polish publications on Krakow’s architecture and heritage. Since 2015, Jacek Purchla has been President of the Polish National Commission for UNESCO. In 2017, he chaired the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in Krakow.

Eugen Vaida is an architect at Asociatia Monumentum, which has been a member organisation of Europa Nostra since 2019. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”, in Bucharest. Among his many projects, Eugen coordinated the Daia Heritage Valorization Plan, developed by the Global Heritage Fund in 2017-2018 and co-founded The Ambulance for Monuments project, which won an Award and the Public Choice Award at the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2020. In his role of director for The King’s Foundation in Romania he had a defining role in the development of the summer school movement in Romania which has its key mission in educating young architects and students. Eugen Vaida published numerous literary works on cultural heritage, including “Saving the Culture of the Other” (Alţîna, 2021) and “The Architectural Guidebook For Contextual Planning in the Saxon Area” of the Order of Romanian Architects (The Rural Working Group). He became an Ashoka Fellow in November 2021, benefitting from a lifetime bursary to continue his work in the field of heritage from the world’s leading social entrepreneurship organisation. For its dedicated efforts in the education of the public of all generations, Asociatia Monumentum, led by Eugen Vaida, was knighted by The Romanian Presidency in 2021

Alessandra Vittorini, an esteemed Italian expert in monument restoration and urban planning, has dedicated her career to preserving cultural heritage. Architect graduate in Monument Restoration with a PhD in Territorial and Urban Planning from “La Sapienza” University in Rome, she has held a prominent position within Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism since 1990. Following the devastating 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Vittorini was appointed head of the Superintendency for the region in 2012, where she led an integrated approach to cultural heritage protection and recovery.
Her leadership in restoring the Basilica of Collemaggio stands out; the project not only revived a key historical site but also earned the prestigious European Heritage Award/ Europa Nostra Award in 2020 for its excellence. Throughout her career, Vittorini has overseen numerous landmark restoration projects and contributed to international discussions on cultural preservation. She is also active in academia, frequently lecturing and publishing on architectural restoration and landscape conservation. From 2020 to 2024 she directed the “Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali”, an international institute founded by the Ministry of Culture for training, research and advanced studies, including in the international field, for the care and management of cultural heritage.

Paul Dujardin is a prominent leader in European civil society. He currently serves as Commissioner-General for Heritage at the Brussels Capital Region, spearheading the Art Nouveau Season. Over the past two years, he has been Chief Project Director for the bicentennial commemorations of “Belgium 2030” and developed a master plan for the renovation of the Cinquantenaire-Jubelpark Site, home to Federal Museums and Conservation & Science Institutes (KIK-IRPA). This historic site aims to become a European Campus for Culture and Science, integrated into a Brussels Cultural Mile within the European District.
From 2001 to 2021, Dujardin was the CEO and Artistic Director of the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (BOZAR). Under his leadership, BOZAR became a globally recognized multidisciplinary hub aligned with the ideals of the New European Bauhaus. In 2019 alone, BOZAR collaborated with over 1,000 partners worldwide, led 15 active EU projects, and operated in 100 countries. Pre-COVID, its annual budget reached €40 million. BOZAR attracted over 1.4 million visitors annually, serving as a vital cultural and diplomatic nexus in the EU.
Dujardin expanded BOZAR’s activities through an intersectoral approach integrating arts, science, and technology, with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to maximize social impact. BOZAR’s numerous exhibitions, festivals, and hybrid events became a model for social cohesion and contemporary cultural discourse. Over two decades, more than 100 internationally acclaimed exhibitions were produced under his guidance.
Since 2016, Dujardin has advised the EU on cultural diplomacy strategies and co-authored initiatives like the “New Narrative for Europe” (2013–2018). His work bridges policymaking, societal issues, and the arts, collaborating with leading scientists, artists, and politicians.
Beyond BOZAR, Dujardin has held numerous leadership roles, including Founder and CEO of Ars Musica, General Manager of the Brussels Philharmonic Society, Co-Administrator of the Belgian National Orchestra, President of the International Music Council – UNESCO (2013–2023), and President of Europa Nostra Belgium (since 2018).
He holds master’s degrees in Art History, Archaeology & Musicology (VUB, 1986) and Management (VLEKHO, 1987).

Susana Gómez-Martínez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora’s School of Social Sciences, where she teaches mediaeval and Islamic archaeology. She holds a degree in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and completed her PhD there in 2004. Her research career began with internships in archaeological sites across Spain, France, Israel, and Portugal, and she has been a researcher at the Mértola Archaeological Centre since 1992 and the Research Centre in Archaeology, Arts and Cultural Heritage (CEAACP) since 2008. She has received various research grants, including a doctoral fellowship from FCT and post-doctoral fellowships with the European project “MERCATOR” and FCT. Gómez-Martínez has held teaching positions at several universities in Portugal and Spain between 2009 and 2018. She has written over 200 papers, edited 14 monographs, and served on the editorial committees of several academic journals. She is also a mentor to PhD and Master’s students. Her research focuses on mediaeval and Islamic archaeology, with notable involvement in projects like the CEAACP’s Strategic Project and “Alcáçova de Mértola”. She has coordinated major heritage conservation projects and curated two travelling exhibitions. Gómez-Martínez holds leadership roles in several academic and professional organisations, including the Mértola Archaeological Centre (CAM), the Spanish Association of Medieval Archaeology (AEAM) and the Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Céramiques Médiévales et Modernes en Méditerranée (AIECM3)

Jonas Malmberg (b.1974) has M.Sc.Arch at Oulu University 2002 and M.A. at Helsinki University 2012. He is preparing PhD on Säynätsalo Town Hall. Since 2012 he has been employed at Aalto Foundation. He has been a member of the board of DOCOMOMO Finland since 2014 and chairman since 2023, and a voting member of ISC20C. He was the main author of Paimio Sanatorium CMP 2015 and participated in Sevan Writers’ House CMP (Armenia 2019), and has lectured at various universities. He co-edited the book DOCOMOMO Finland – Register Selection (2018). His previous places of employment include the Finnish Heritage Agency and Finnish Architectural Review.

Michiel Purmer studied Human Geography, specialising in Historical Geography at Utrecht University. In 2000, he began working for Natuurmonumenten, a Dutch NGO that manages more than 100.000 HA of nature reserves, including a broad array of cultural heritage: archaeology, country estates, historical buildings and cultural landscapes. As a senior heritage specialist, he is an advisor on cultural heritage for this society in the field of landscapes, archaeology and parks and gardens. Michiel Purmer also represents Natuurmonumenten in the broad field of cultural heritage in The Netherlands, working, for example, with other nature conservation organisations, the Dutch Heritage Agency and universities.
Michiel Purmer defended his PhD thesis at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2018. The thesis, entitled Het landschap bewaard (The landscape preserved), studied Natuurmonumenten as a heritage organisation, with a focus on historical cultural landscapes from a historical perspective.
Michiel Purmer guest lectures at universities and previously held a position at Groningen University. He regularly publishes on heritage and landscape, but also on other fields of interest like numismatic and clay pipes.
He is a member of the National Consultation Panel on Heritage of the Netherlands, a member of the Committee Landscape History of the Limburgs Geschiedkundig en Oudheidkundig Genootschap (LGOG), a board member of the Dutch Network Historic Cultural Landscape (Netwerk Historisch Cultuurlandschap), chair of the Numismatic Study Group of the Amsterdam Museum.

Elif Aydın is a dedicated urban planner and cultural heritage professional. Currently, she works at the HERKUL Institute of KU Leuven, focusing on the Una Europa and European Heritage HUB projects. She also moderates the Istanbul Citizens’ Council’s Working Group on Urban Culture and Cultural Heritage, where she actively promotes participatory urban culture and raises awareness about cultural heritage. As Communications Manager at ESACH, she oversees content creation for events and calls, coordinates the “Journey of Heritage: Cultural Narratives” blog series, manages the organisation’s digital presence, and promotes awareness of cultural heritage. Elif’s background includes a valuable internship at Europa Nostra, where she contributed to youth involvement in cultural heritage management, as well as earlier experiences at Studio Redaelli Speranza in Milan and various Turkish municipalities. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban & Cultural Studies at Istanbul Technical University while conducting her research at KU Leuven as an international scholar.

Dr. Johanna Leissner, trained as a chemist and material scientist, has been managing cultural heritage research for over 20 years. She focuses on the climate change impact on cultural heritage, environmental monitoring of cultural property, and fostering the green transition by implementing sustainability concepts for Green Museums and heritage buildings.

Dr. Leissner chairs the EU OMC expert group Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change and is a member of the EU Commission’s Cultural Heritage Forum, founded in 2019. Since March 2024, she has been a Supervisory Board member of the EIT Culture & Creativity programme (2022-2029). She coordinated the German research project KERES (2020-2023), which aimed to protect cultural heritage from extreme climate events and increase resilience, and the EU project Climate for Culture (2009-2014). She is a partner in the Austrian Academy of Science project on future climate change impacts on museum pests and fungi (2021-2024) and the German project on damage prevention for cultural assets in times of climate change (2022-2024).

Dr. Leissner is the German delegate for the Council of Europe’s Strategy “European Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century” (2018) and a member of the UNESCO World Heritage Expert Group on climate change impacts (2017). Since 2005, she has represented the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft at the European Union in Brussels. She co-founded the German Research Alliance for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in 2008 and the Fraunhofer Sustainability Network. From 2001 to 2005, she was the National Expert for “Technologies for the Protection of European Cultural Heritage” at the European Commission in Brussels.

Elena Dimitrova is an Associate Professor at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia with over thirty years of teaching and research in spatial policy and planning. She has a Master’s in Architecture, awarded in 1976 and defended her PhD in 1990. Dimitrova’s professional expertise and research interests are in the spatial and sociocultural aspects of sustainable development, participatory planning approaches, and interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on heritage as a factor for urban sustainability. She is a team leader in several international research projects; and the author of numerous publications in the fields of urban development and planning, higher education and research, and cultural heritage preservation for sustainable development. Dimitorva is and has been a participant in numerous European academic networks and international conferences.

Elena Dimitrova has been a member of ICOMOS-Bulgaria since 2005 and Vice-President since 2011; a member of CIVVIH (International Scientific Committee on historic cities, towns and villages) since 2010, CIVVIH Advisory Committee member (2018-2021) and Board member (since 2021); representative of ICOMOS-Bulgaria in ICOMOS SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Working Group since 2019. She is a member of the Expert Group on European Quality Principles for EU-Funded Interventions with Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage, jointly developed by ICOMOS Europe and the European Commission (DC Culture and Education), which was adopted by the ICOMOS General Assembly in 2021. She was Invited to be a panellist (Theme II: ‘Community engagement through culture for sustainable local development’) at the UNESCO Conference on ‘Culture 2030 | Rural-Urban Development: The Future of Historic Villages and Towns’, organised in Meishan, China, in 2019.

Elena Dimitorva has extensive experience in scientific article reviews, ICOMOS missions and desk reviews and the evaluation of educational and research projects in European and national academic and research programmes. She has also been a local assessor for the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards since 2018.

Riin Alatalu is the Vice-President of ICOMOS, an Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Conservation at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies at the same institution. She also serves as Vice-Chair of the Estonian Heritage Conservation Council and is an active member of various ICOMOS groups, including the Rights-Based Approaches Working Group, CIVVIH, ICLAFI, ISC20C, and the European Heritage Label Panel.
Alatalu has held leadership roles in the Estonian National Heritage Board, the Tallinn Culture and Heritage Department, and the Ministry of Culture. She earned her PhD in 2012 with a dissertation on “Heritage in Transitional Society: From Nation’s Conscience in the Estonian SSR to the Harasser of the Private Owner in the Republic of Estonia.”
She has been deeply involved in initiatives like the Urban Agenda Dissonant Heritage Working Group and has been a strong advocate for preserving and contextualizing dissonant heritage in Estonia. Alatalu has organized numerous courses and lectures on the topic.
Her campaigns include the Estonian National Cultural Heritage Year 2013, European Cultural Heritage Days, Visit Baltic Manors, and other awareness-raising activities. She has successfully fostered collaboration between decision-makers and the wider public to promote cultural heritage preservation.

Antoine Doucet has been a Professor of Computer Science at the Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i) of La Rochelle Université since 2014. Since January 2021, he has also served as Vice-Rector for the European University alliance EU-CONEXUS.
He leads the research group focused on document analysis, digital content, and image processing. His main research interests include natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
His work primarily involves developing methods applicable to various types of documents, whether written in any language, including news articles, social media content, digitised manuscripts, or digitally born documents.

Prof. Dr. Christian Hanus, born in 1974, is the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Arts, and Architecture at Danube University Krems (DUK), where he also leads the Department of Building and Environment. After completing his studies and doctoral work at ETH Zürich, specialising in monument preservation and sustainable architecture, he joined DUK in 2007 and became a professor in 2013.
At DUK, Prof. Hanus developed the “Refurbishment and Revitalization” program, focusing on restoring historical buildings with a sustainable and multifaceted approach. He has organised annual summer schools on heritage conservation and led various national and international research projects, including the European Heritage Awards Archive. He is actively involved with Europa Nostra Austria, contributing to its conferences and publications, and serves on the Industrial and Engineering Heritage Committee.
His expertise extends to advising UNESCO and the Austrian government on World Heritage properties, including assessments for sites like the Historic Centre of Salzburg. He also founded the “Center for Architectural Heritage and Infrastructure” and the “Center for Cultural Property Protection,” emphasising heritage conservation, reconstruction of earthquake-damaged historical towns, and international collaboration on cultural property protection.

Professor Alex Torpiano is currently Dean of the Faculty for the Built Environment of the University of Malta, a position he has held for the last 16 years; he has served as Head of the Department of Building and Civil Engineering, 1988-1999, 2007-2011, as Head of the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, 2011-2016, as Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2016-2020, and Acting Head of the Department of Visual Arts, 2021-2022. Het set up and served as Director of the Institute for Masonry and Construction Research between 1994 – 2009. He is currently a member of the University Senate, (since 2008), and has served as a member of the Council of the University between 2009-2021. He is a member of the Board of the Institute of Sustainable Energy and of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He has served as Chairperson of San Anton School, between 2000 and 2009; as President of the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers, 1994-1996, 2017-2019, as Chairman of the Valletta Rehabilitation Committee 1995-1996, 2000-2001, as member of the Periti Warranting Board between 1999-2001 and since 2009. He has also served on the Eurocodes National Implementation Committee since 2002. He is currently the Executive President of the National Trust of Malta, Din l-Art Helwa.

Jasna Popović graduated from Law in Belgrade and holds two Masters – one in International public law and another in Human Rights, and now is a PhD candidate at UC3M, Madrid, researching the link between cultural heritage and sustainable tourism.
She has experience in the administration (working in the Serbian Embassy in Spain), cultural heritage NGO sector (collaborating with Hispania Nostra), and private sector collaborating with tourist agencies.
Currently, she is a freelance cultural practitioner and she is collaborating with Hispania Nostra, where she oversees youth involvement, and digital transformation in heritage and EU-funded projects. She is also working as the Coordinator of youth activities for the European Heritage Hub pilot project. She is also very active in ESACH where she has volunteered as Secretary since September 2022.

Sara originally trained as an architect and holds an MSc in Architectural Conservation. She began her professional career working for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) where she undertook various roles including running the casework and education teams and leading the Europa Nostra award-winning Faith in Maintenance training project.
She then spent time with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), where she was Head of Historic Environment – providing advice and strategic direction to the Board and Executive on grant giving, and policy issues and building strategic relationships with historic environment organisations across the UK – before moving on to become CEO of Icon (the Institute of Conservation) and leading the organisation through a digital transformation as well as publishing a new long-term strategy with a renewed focus on skills and accreditation.
Sara is currently CEO of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting but retains her passion for heritage. She is a trustee of the National Heritage Science Forum, the Chair of the BEFS Places of Worship Forum, the Chair of Historic Buildings and Places, and the Chair of Europa Nostra UK.

Jermina Stanojev, PhD, is an independent expert in the field of cultural heritage and international cultural relations. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University with a focus on circular economy and cultural heritage and holds a PhD in participatory and integrated governance of cultural heritage in the Western Balkans. She is currently appointed as an individual expert by the European Commission to the “Commission’s expert group on cultural heritage”. Her work focuses on culture-led, sustainable, regional development, policy design and evaluation for trans-disciplinary challenges through different governance frameworks and geopolitical levels. Since 2009 she is an advisor on the role of cultural heritage in international cultural relations within the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and since 2016 supports the European Union in engaging in international cultural relations within the framework of the EU strategy for international cultural relations through Cultural Diplomacy/Relations Platform of the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, with a global geographical mandate, under which, among others, developed recommendations “European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018: International Perspectives”. She has established competences and wide experience in fields of international cultural relations and cultural heritage working with different international organisations and institutions (UNESCO, European Commission, Goethe-Institut Brussels, European Cultural Centre Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia etc.). She has an extensive experience in research, policies and numerous projects such as the EU Horizon 2020 project, “Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse”, Erasmus + HERITAGE-PRO, the report of the Structured Dialogue with the EC on “Skills, Training and Knowledge-transfer in the Traditional and Emerging Heritage”, the OMC working group of Member States’ experts report on “Fostering cooperation in the EU on skills, training and knowledge transfer in cultural heritage professions” etc.

Victor Boye Julebæk, Ph.D., is an accomplished architect and academic who combines a deep theoretical foundation with practical experience. He studied architecture at both the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, grounding his approach in the rigorous architectural traditions of Denmark and Switzerland. He serves as an assistant professor at the Royal Danish Academy and is head of the Master’s Programme for Cultural Heritage, Transformation, and Conservation. In his teaching, research and practice, there is a focus on both the theoretical and the hands-on, applied perspectives of the conservation and transformation of architectural heritage with an emphasis on material practices, cultures, and ecologies.

Dr. Marine Mizandari has been co-chairing the National Trust of Georgia since 2017.
With 30 years of professional experience, her career spans scientific research in cultural heritage and the implementation of projects across Georgia and Europe.
Her extensive background includes high-level management roles, such as ministerial management and policy development. She has advised the Georgian government on strategic documents and served as the first Deputy Minister of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia from 2012 to 2014.

Charles Personnaz is a historian and civil servant, having spent most of his career in the field of cultural heritage both at the French Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Culture. He has been the Director of the National Heritage Institute (INP – Institut National du Patrimoine) since 2019.
Charles Personnaz has a special interest and commitment to the preservation of Christian heritage in the Middle East. He has authored several books published in France about Byzantine and Greek history and cultural policy.

She has been working as an architect for 40 years, running her own studio since 1997 and has been teaching at different universities since 1999 with a professor’s post from 2006. She has been working internationally as well, for almost 10 years in Bosnia Herzegovina with the restoration of war-damaged monuments and with the establishment of The Commission to Preserve National Monuments, as stipulated in the Dayton Peace Agreement.
At the moment, she is teaching both at Dalarna University where she also participates in some applied research projects, as well as at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. Otherwise, she runs her architect’s studio where she has mainly occupied with restoration projects of listed buildings, state monuments such as Örebr castle and all buildings on Skeppsholmen, the island in front of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.

Lorenzo Venezia was born in Vibo Valentia, Italy on 17 August 1992. He studied law at the University of Milano Bicocca and wrote his final dissertation on the role of Interpol in the operations of cultural objects restitutions when illegally exported. He then completed a one-year master’s programme in “Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response” at the University of Turin with a final project on the use of QR codes inside cultural institutions to raise awareness in the public about illicit art trafficking. Lorenzo is currently working on a research project at C-Ship of the ICHEC Brussels Management School which is focusing on the relationship between local communities, environmental issues and cultural centres in the Region of Brussels. In December 2024, he will start a PhD on corporate financial management and crisis prevention at Universitas Mercatorum with a focus on digital transition in European non-profit cultural organisations as a tool for crisis prevention and the case study of ENCATC.
He has been a member of ESACH since June 2023 and in May 2024 he started to collaborate as Editor.

Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou is a Civil Engineer with a Master’s in Protection, Conservation, and Restoration of Monuments, a Master’s in Environmental Planning, a PhD in Architecture (digital cultural heritage), and a postdoc in Digital Heritage at the University of the Aegean. In 2015, his research project HERMeS earned him the prestigious European Heritage Award/Europa Nostra Award. The Council of Europe has recognised HERMeS as part of the Best Practices for Strategy 2021 and is currently being expanded to several historic cities. He has been invited as a guest speaker at international events, including the EU Cultural Forum, Best in Heritage, EU Best Practices in Public Administration, Digital Heritage, and Strategy 2021. Pavlos was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Chair for Digital Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology. Currently, he teaches digital cultural heritage at the University of the Aegean, serves as Chairman of the Jury for the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards in the category Citizens’ Engagement and Awareness Raising, and is the Co-founder of the non-profit NGO Heritage Management e-Society (HERMeS) for the digital management of heritage. He is also Chairman of the Syros Institute’s board of directors and Project Officer for EU Funding in the South Aegean Region. Since June 2024, he has been appointed Managing Director and Scientific Responsible for the Historical Museum of Hermoupolis, a collaborative initiative of HERMeS NGO and the Lyceum of Greek Women of Syros. In this role, he oversees the development of innovative, inclusive activities, positioning the museum as a centre for Syros’s knowledge and cultural heritage.

Dr. Natalia Moussienko is Europa Nostra Vice-President. She served as a member of the jury for the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards in the category Dedicated Service to Heritage (2019-2020) and later as a member of the Selection Committee in the category Citizens Engagement and Awareness Raising (2021-2022). Furthermore, she was on the Selection Committee for the European Heritage Hub Competition (2024).

Natalia Moussienko is a leading research fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv. She studied philosophy at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and subsequently at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine where she received her doctorate. She is the author of numerous articles and books on the theory and history of culture, cultural diplomacy, urbanism, and cinema.

Dr. Moussienko pays special attention to the issues of art and cultural heritage at war: she lectures internationally and speaks on radio, television, and other mass media. In 2022–24 she presented her lectures in Ukraine, USA, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Cyprus, Serbia, Germany, and Italy. She was a coordinator of the International Heritage Solidarity Fellowship for the Ukrainian Defenders of the Cultural Heritage, launched by Europa Nostra (2022-2023).

Natalia Moussienko is the author of the research on the strategy and institutional development of cultural diplomacy and an educational course for Ph.D. students “Cultural Heritage as a Vector of Cultural Diplomacy”. She initiated and organized four Cultural Diplomacy Forums in Kyiv, notably “Cultural Heritage Matters to Cultural Diplomacy” in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018).