ENCATC Members Talk - Innovative methodologies and tools for teaching in the performing arts

Lidia Varbanova's professional experience in strategy, policy, capacity building, management and entrepreneurship extends beyond 60 countries, with a special focus on the arts, culture and creative industries. She meets with artists, cultural professionals, and students from around the world to help them increase their competence, audiences, supporters and budgets. She has also been permanent and visiting professor in prominent universities and training centers in Europe and Canada and has received a number of distinguished awards, among them: Dragan Klaic European award for excellence in teaching, FULBRIGHT Program, Japan Foundation fellowship, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation post-doctoral award; and scholarship from Webb Memorial Trust, Oxford.
Lidia Varbanova is currently a member of UNESCO Expert Facility for the implementation of the 2005 Convention on Cultural Diversity and Director of the MA Program in Management of Performing Arts and Industries at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts.