We are launching Culture Solutions Europe in a context of uncertainty and questioning of the European integration project, while technological change is affecting the ways Humanity deals with an ecologically threatened planet.
At the crossroads of these challenges, the work of Culture Solutions Europe will therefore focus on 5 priority themes:
We contribute independently to the excellence of EU international cultural relations with the opening of creative trust-building spaces, the production of commons and the brokerage of know-how.
Culture Solutions Europe was created as a French association on 23 October 2018.
We follow a specific Theory of Change.
Damien is the Chair of Culture Solutions’ board. He initiated the launch of the organisation by running a feasibility study in 2018 on the need for innovative action in EU international cultural relations…
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Felipe is a founding member of Culture Solutions – Europe. He has an extensive professional experience in the fields of budgetary and administrative management…
Delphine Renard, a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the Sorbonne, has been a social sciences editor for almost twenty years and currently lives in Paris…
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Damien is the Chair of Culture Solutions’ board.
He initiated the launch of the organisation by running a feasibility study in 2018 on the need for innovative action in EU international cultural relations.
In his professional life, he is an independent cultural advisor and runs his consultancy dh creative partnerships.
Damien is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at the College of Europe in Bruges where he teaches a course and supervises master-level theses on "Culture, States and Societies: National Factors in EU External Action".
He has worked as Head of Cultural Skills, EU for the British Council (Arts, Europe) and as Senior Programme Manager with ECDPM, EUISS, Crisis Group, Saferworld.
He holds of a PhD in political science from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) and has published extensively on the EU's external action and international cultural relations.
Felipe is a founding member of Culture Solutions – Europe. He is fully convinced and passionate about the need to innovate and develop new effective strategies in EU internal and external cultural relations.
He has an extensive professional experience in the fields of budgetary and administrative management at the Spanish national Cultural Institute (Instituto Cervantes) and co-operates in several cultural and academic projects with European cultural foundations and networks in Germany, France and Belgium (i.a. Allianz Summer Academy (2004-2019) with Allianz Kulturstiftung as external Co-ordinator).
He has worked as Jean Monnet Lecturer at ICAI-ICADE (UPCO-Madrid) and as Director of the binational cultural Foundation Rei Afonso Henriques (FRAH). He has taken part in several Interreg II-III, Culture 2000 and Creative Europe projects (1999-2016).
He holds a MA in European Political & Administrative Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges). He also lectures on Cultural Policies and EU Project Management and has published on EU policies and trans-border co-operation in the fields of Education and Culture.
A graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the Sorbonne, Delphine has been a social sciences editor for almost twenty years and currently lives in Paris. Driven by the desire to promote scientific culture and to ensure the best conditions for its dissemination, she embraced Culture Solutions’ approach to support all areas of culture and joined as co-founder.
