6th ENCATC Working Group on Evaluation

Lyudmila Petrova is a co-founder of CREARE Foundation and a director at the CREARE Summer School of Cultural Economics.  She holds an MA in cultural economics and cultural entrepreneurship and is an active member of the cultural economics research community.  Currently, she is a Research Associate at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, while pursuing a research on institutional change, culture related innovation, and cultural spillovers in the economy and society. She has 10 years of experience in teaching and research in cultural economics at national and international Universities and Institutes. She actively presents at international conferences and seminars, as well as publishing in relevant journals. Since 2013 she is actively working on the design of a culture (e)valuation tool “The Value-Based Approach” and its implementation for the assessment of social change/innovation. She is also a research partner at a European research alliance focusing on spillover effects of cultural and creative industry.