Leanne Hoogwaerts

Leanne is a policy officer at Kunsten ’92, the association for the arts, culture, heritage and the creative industries in the Netherlands. With members from across the breadth of the cultural and creative sector, Kunsten ’92 aims to achieve a thriving environment for arts and culture at both national and local level. It does this through advocacy and lobbying activities, as well as through providing knowledge sharing and networking opportunities, bringing together the sector with politics through events and publications. Kunsten ’92 is also the coordinator of the Fair Practice Code.

Within the team Leanne is responsible for general policy advice, as well as coordinating specific projects and programmes such as the Europaplatform. This platform consists of several Dutch arts and culture organisations with an interest in European cultural policy and programmes, and is tasked with lobbying the Dutch government to achieve effective European cultural policy, ensuring optimal opportunities for Dutch cultural organisations at European level. It underwrites the Cultural Deal for Europe and spearheaded the campaign to allocate 2% of the Dutch Recovery and Resilience Facility for culture.