Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert, European Commissions DG EAC
Barbara is from Vienna/Austria and is a Senior Expert at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)’s Cultural Policy Unit. Her field of work is cultural policy making, in particular the crossroads of cultural and creative sectors/ industries/spaces and how to contribute in terms of city and regional development, social inclusion, job creation, participation, linking up creative sectors and policy-makers, creative hubs and cultural and creative spaces and helped to set up the CreativesUnite platform. She also works on cultural and creative industries, innovation and finance concerning policies as well as projects. She focusses also on artists’ and creative professionals working conditions in her work with the OMC (Open Method of Coordination) EU Member States’ expert group and beyond.