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Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Religion, Conflict, and Globalization (CRCG), University of Groningen. She holds a BA in Economics and a PhD in Communication Studies. Her current research explores how ontological and epistemological diversity shape environmental education and environmental policymaking, with particular attention to worldview pluralism, sustainability, and social transformation.

Specializing in transdisciplinary and participatory research, she brings extensive experience working at the intersection of research, advocacy, and intercultural dialogue. Her work spans academic and applied contexts, engaging with grassroots movements, international NGOs, and intercultural networks across Europe and the Mediterranean, and integrating arts-based and embodied methodologies into sustainability research and practice.

Daniela Eletti is a project manager and cultural practitioner based in Barcelona with a strong background in coordinating creative and community-engaged initiatives. She has worked with La Xixa Teatre, contributing to project development, coordination, and implementation across multidisciplinary arts and social projects.

With academic training from the Università degli Studi di Perugia and professional experience spanning arts, culture, and community engagement, Daniela brings a holistic and people-centred approach to her work. Her interests include collaborative practice, intercultural dialogue, and fostering spaces for collective expression and learning.

Her professional practice integrates strategic project planning with a deep commitment to participatory and socially-relevant cultural work, linking artistic processes with community needs and social innovation.

Santiago Sánchez Cifuentes is a self-employed musician and cultural project manager with a strong background in European project coordination and territorial cultural initiatives. He specializes in flamenco and Latin song, rhythm, history, and musical fusion, and is also a farmer and small landowner. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Pompeu Fabra University (2005).

He was one of the founders of CitiLab Cornellà, one of Europe’s pioneering social innovation centres, where he worked as project coordinator between 2007 and 2018, gaining extensive experience in managing complex, multi-actor cultural and social projects.

Born and raised in the industrial outskirts of Barcelona, in 2018 he returned to Pozohondo, where his family has its roots, seeking a closer relationship with the land. Since then, he has combined music and agriculture as intertwined practices, while actively disseminating flamenco rhythms through open-access teaching materials, books released under Creative Commons licences, and a YouTube channel with nearly 8,000 followers.

He has built a strong network of local and regional professional artists. His transdisciplinary expertise in popular Spanish, Mediterranean, and Latin musical traditions, together with his practical knowledge of farming and long-standing experience in project management, informs his work at the intersection of culture, territory, and community-based initiatives.

Irantzu Casajús is a cultural manager and audiovisual anthropologist with expertise in the design and coordination of cultural, educational, and research-driven projects. Her work combines visual and narrative methodologies with critical social analysis to explore how culture, technology, and meaning are produced and communicated in contemporary contexts.

She has a strong background in audiovisual practices and applied anthropology, and in recent years has specialised in the use of artificial intelligence as a tool for cultural analysis, creative production, and organisational learning. She works at the intersection of culture, media, and emerging technologies, supporting institutions and teams in critically and ethically integrating AI into cultural and educational processes.

She contributes a hybrid profile that bridges cultural management, audiovisual research, and technological expertise, with a particular focus on experimentation, reflexivity, and socially grounded innovation.