Ivana Nikolić Popović – IMAGINE Platform for Creativity, Croatia

Ivana Nikolić Popović successfully runs her own company IMAGINE platform for creativity, is the vice-president of the association Network for Development and Creativity – MRAK, and taught for ten years at the Faculty of Textile Technology on the course Presentation Practicum and four years on the course Fashion Illustration. As the EU Ambassador of Women’s Entrepreneurship since 2010, she has held many workshops and motivational lectures. Since 2013, she has been elected president of the Croatian Cluster of Competitiveness of Creative and Cultural Industries, and in 2017 she was elected deputy president of the Community of Creative and Cultural Industries at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce. She is the author and manager of many socially engaged and cultural-artistic projects, some of which are more recent Small Museum of Wonders, Project Ilica: Q’ART, Galerija Ilica, network of Creative Cities of Croatia, Month of Creative and Cultural Industries, Summit of Creative and Cultural Industries, Days of Creativity and innovation, Award for creativity and innovation.