Mateja Lazar

Mateja is co-founder and director of Motovila, Centre for the Promotion of Cooperation in the Cultural and Creative Sectors, a non-profit NGO, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is an expert on international cooperation in the cultural and creative sectors, specialising in EU funding programmes and policies in this field. Since 1997, she has been involved in information, consultancy and training activities aimed at strengthening the capacities of CCSs and promoting crosssectoral cooperation and internationalisation in culture. Her professional path started at the Open Society Institute Slovenia (Art & Culture Network Programme) and continued at the Centre for Contemporary Arts SCCA-Ljubljana where in 2022 she established Cultural Contact Point, the first national information office for the EU cultural programme in Slovenia, and acted as head of the office until 2013 when she co-founded Motovila Institute.