Marcin Poprawski
AMU University Poznan
Deputy Dean - Faculty of Social Sciences
Poland
Dr Marcin Poprawski is a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan, Poland, and works in the Institute of Cultural Studies at the AMU; he is also a co-founder and research coordinator of the ROK AMU Culture Observatory. Since 2006 he has been lecturing at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder. He improved his professional skills in teaching cultural management and cultural policy during an internship at the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, the University of Warwick (UK) in 2012. His research interests, publications topics, and projects include cultural policies, cultural management, and entrepreneurship, festivals management models, culture-led city development, aesthetics in management, organizational cultures in cultural & creative organizations and heritage institutions. He is an expert of the Association of Polish Cities, a member of the Urban Cultural Policies Council of the Polish National Center for Culture, mastermind of professional trainings and research tools for public and civic cultural sectors. He was involved recently in several international research projects, e.g. on audience engagement (for the European Commission, coordinated by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in Turin) or cultural and creative spillovers (European Research Partnership on Cultural and Creative Spillovers). In 2016 he was a Jury Member of the N.I.C.E. Award (European Award for Innovations in Culture and Creativity in Europe). Since 2013, he has been twice elected Vice-president of the ENCATC European Network based in Brussels.