Adla Shashati is the Director of the Greek Forum of Migrants and founder of Rootes: Migrants Memory Solidarity Collective. She brings extensive experience in migration, migrant communities, social inclusion, and combating racism and discrimination, with a strong track record at both national and European levels.

Agent Mo aka Marina Gioti, is a filmmaker/ visual artist. She has djayed regularly in Athens for more than twenty years and has also performed in cities like Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, London, Cairo and Beirut. More of a selector than a DJ, she mixes overlooked findings from around the world, through a cross-genre approach that defies strict musical classifications and time.

Aleksandra Kuzmanovic is a digital diplomacy, social media and leadership communication strategist with more than a decade of experience in global health at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Anna Járai, a Budapest-based artist and filmmaker, explores embodiment and memory from a feminist critical perspective, creating research- and performance-based, cross-genre works including films, photographs and installations. 

Antonis Galanopoulos is a political researcher and project coordinator at Eteron – Institute for Research and Social Change. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a master’s degree in Political Theory and Philosophy from the same institution.

Aurelia Temi is a Junior Programme & Community Officer at European Alternatives. Passionate about the intersections between art, culture, politics, and urbanism, she works towards imagining and building fairer (urban) futures.

Avtonomi Akadimia is an artistic form of protest for autonomy and open access education. We practice an inter-epistemology of art, philosophy, ecofeminism, and political healing.

Under the title CREATIVE AGENCY: Sustaining Culture & Creativity in the Age of Intelligence, we will together explore the notion of sustainability – but not only from the environmental standpoint, but also the sustainability of creative professions in the face of multiple crises, the technological challenges posed by the use of AI in creative processes, and the impermanence that many creative professions are, and will be facing in the period ahead of us.

Benedetta Panisson (1980, Venice) is a visual artist working with film photography, video, and performance, interweaving art practice with academic research. Her research focuses on erotic and sexual imaginaries in sea and island scapes.

EA Imagination Coordinator

Billie Dibb coordinates the imagination stream of European Alternatives, overseeing the organisation’s artistic and cultural projects. They hold an academic background in International Politics, with a focus on gendered nationalism and big data.

Christos Avramidis is a journalist and researcher based in Greece.

He specialises in documentary work on politics, environmental issues, and social movements, and produces content for Greek, U.S., and Italian media outlets and serves as the chief editor of Jacobin Greece.

Co-organised by the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University and the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR Demokritos, the Digital Commons Conference brings social inquiry and technical practice into dialogue.

Dimitra Siatitsa is an independent researcher working on housing and urban studies. She is currently doing research at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the National Centre of Social Research.

As Director of We Are Community, Dina assumes a multifaceted role encompassing advocacy, project development and cultural engagement. With a background as an Engagement Manager and Researcher, she specialises in fostering inclusive and collaborative practices, advocating for inclusion, wellbeing and ethical principles.

Eleni Riga is a curator and cultural producer based in Athens, working across the Mediterranean and beyond.
Her practice weaves ecofeminisms and water politics into lived and critical geographies, often immersing herself—whether by diving or hiking—alongside the artists she collaborates with.

Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Art and Education Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author.

Enikő Vincze currently works at the Department of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research interest focused on nationalism, racism, feminism and intersectionality, socio-spatial marginalization and exclusion, uneven development, urban development, housing, real estate development.

Eteron – Institute for Research and Social Change is a non-profit organisation, based in Athens, Greece, that produces knowledge, contributes towards citizen empowerment and promotes partnerships.

European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) is a peer‑led network of more than 300 hubs across Europe, and 100+ active members. Its mission is to enhance the creative, economic and social impact of creative hubs in Europe and the neighbouring countries. 

Giun Trym (he/him) is a speculative social designer and a human rights defender. His work spans from micro-, meso-, to macro-politics as he founded a youth-led organization in the Czech Republic to organize parties for social transformation, while writing human rights violation reports to the UN Human Rights Council. 

Founded in Athens in September 2002, the Greek Forum of Migrants (GFM) is the largest network of migrant communities and organizations in Greece. Operating as an umbrella union association, the GFM brings together over 40  migrant associations.

The Greek Forum of Refugees is a non-profit association consisting of refugee and migrant communities, individuals and professionals working all together to support and empower asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and stateless persons.

The association was founded in Athens in 2013, in order to function as a reference organization, both for the refugee communities and for the refugees who wish to address collectively and in an organized manner their requests to the State, but also to the host society.

Gresa Hasa is an expert on Albania and the Western Balkans, with a particular focus on the rule of law, state capture, democratic backsliding, and electoral politics.

Ilirida Musaraj is the coordinator of the Albanian Migration Archive (Contemporary Social History Archives – ASKI), funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University.

EA Assembly and Deliberation Manager

Irene Alonso Toucido is the Assembly and Deliberation Manager at European Alternatives, where she explores how we live, decide, and care together through democratic experimentation. With roots in sociology and a strong interest in the commons, ecofeminism, and community practices, her work seeks to reimagine participation, not only as a right, but as a shared practice of shaping and sustaining life in common.

James Bridle is a writer, artist, carpenter and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and online. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times.

Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate and Coordinator of the Laboratory for Philanthropy, Solidarity, and Care Studies at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, where she also serves as Vice-Chair of the Governing Board.

Jenny Marketou, born in Athens, Greece, works between New York and Athens. She is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator whose practice brings together art, architecture, ecology, technology, and engineering to create large-scale installations and participatory environments in public space. 

Jon trained as an architect, and currently is a researcher, practitioner and educator at the RCA, the University of Westminster (MSc Advanced Environmental Design), and the Bartlett (MArch).

Joulia Strauss is an artist and activist, based in Athens and Berlin. She was born and raised as Mari, one of Europe’s last remaining indigenous cultures with a shamanic tradition, located at the very edge of Eastern Europe.

Julia Lazarus is a artist, curator and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at the University of Arts, Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.

EA Board Member

Louna Sbou (she/they) is a cultural entrepreneur, changemaker and community-builder, educated in Law and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Germany and the UK. As a queer Amazigh Muslim, her lived experiences shape a non-Western approach to collective-making, research and resilient leadership.

Lydia is a journalist and audio producer based between Greece and the US. Her work has appeared in news outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera and more. She has specifically investigated the topic of border regimes and new technologies.

Maguy Ikulu is a jurist and political scientist specializing in gender equality, anti-racism, and decolonial approaches. A war refugee and genocide survivor from the DRC, she transformed her personal history into a lifelong commitment to justice and systemic change. She currently serves as Diversity and SDG Officer at UCLouvain, leading strategies for equity, inclusion, and institutional transformation.

She was born in 1984. She studied psychology at Panteion University. He was a member of the artistic group Depression Era and President at WIFT GR (Women in Film & Television) until April 2026. She is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and journalist.

EA Communications Director

Marta Cillero is Managing Director at Fondazione Studio Rizoma (Palermo) and Communications Manager at European Alternatives. She holds degrees in Media Studies, Journalism and Communication (Madrid, Istanbul, and Chicago) and a master’s in Gender Studies (Rome). Her research and writing focus on gender violence in Mediterranean countries.

Martin Simpson is an artist/technologist currently based in Vienna. His practice centres on place-based music, building environmentally-engaged instruments that sonify their environmental dependencies.

We, Mouries Collective, are an interdisciplinary group of female artists, researchers and therapists based in Athens, Greece. Originally gathered due to our common interests in healing and divination practices, we recently focused on developing connections with trees,

Producer and Change-Maker, working creatively and innovatively for the inclusion of marginalised communities.

EA Director

Niccolò Milanese is a poet and one of the founding directors of European Alternatives. He fosters the development of the organisation, its staff and the ecosystem around European Alternatives and is the focal point for the ‘learn’ stream of our work.

EA Communications Officer

Noemi Pittalà is a multidisciplinary artivist and cultural professional from Palermo, working at the intersection of art and social inclusion. With a background in visual arts and theatre, she has specialised in communications within the cultural sector, with a focus on community engagement, radical inclusion, and active youth participation.

Oksana Forostyna (Lviv 1978), is Opinion Editor at Ukraina Moderna, publisher, and author.  She is  also a Visegrad Insight Fellow and Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in 2022-2023. A former executive editor for Krytyka Journal, she contributes to Liberties, The European Review of Books, Krytyka, and Visegrad Insight.

Onur Akgül, a climate activist and researcher, has been working in various branches of climate, environmental, and rights areas as activist, NGO expert, and researcher for about 15 years. A volunteer of the Northern Forests Defense (Kuzey Ormanları Savunması) in Istanbul, Akgül is involved in the climate crisis and climate justice politics, grassroots movements as part of urban and environmental resistance, bicycle activism, ecological, and animal rights movements in Turkey.

EA Deputy Director

Ophélie coordinates the programmes that aim at developing and implementing sustainable tools of participative democracy such as citizens assemblies and ECIs. She also co-coordinates the Citizens Take Over Europe coalition.

Parea Radio is an independent, community-oriented online radio platform based in Athens. Rooted in the idea of parea, a circle of friends gathered around sound, the station exists as a shared space for listening, exchange and documentation.

Paremvasi 2030 is a non-formal network of youth organizations and activists that believe in creating open, progressive, participatory spaces of action. The word «Paremvasi» stands for «Intervention», while 2030 is a call to action to the present, while keeping the horizon to the future. 

Rasha is a local from Alexandria and Gothenburg. She is the founder and producer of Mind the Gap.

Rasha is working at the National Museums of World Culture (as a projects manager and coordinator of the Anna Lindh Foundation network in Sweden.

She believes in the magical power of storytelling to build human bridges between cultures.

Refugee Week Greece is an annual arts and culture festival in Greece that celebrates the stories, creativity, and contributions of refugees and migrants, while fostering dialogue, understanding, and inclusion across communities.

Réka Kinga Papp is a journalist and a comedian. Born in 1985 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, Papp is an MA in media and communications, and also in Hungarian literature and linguistics; specialized as a media researcher.

EA Administrative Officer

Ruxandra Stan is a Romanian citizen who relocated to Paris in 2015. She holds a degree in Computer Science as well as a Master’s in Commercial Business Law. Her professional career in finance includes experience within banking institutions and government organizations, where she has developed strong expertise in financial operations and regulatory compliance.

Sarah Hachem is a Berlin-based artist working across installation, text, curatorial formats, and land-based practices. Their work explores how perception and knowledge are constructed, creating spatial environments that unsettle dominant ways of seeing and knowing.

EA Director

Ségolène Pruvot is Director of European Alternatives. Holding a doctorate in Urban Sociology, her work sits at the intersection of arts, the city, and social change. She trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK, and Germany.

Srdjan Cvijic is the president of the International Advisory Board of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. Before joining BCSP Team, he was a Senior Policy Officer at the Europe and Eurasia Program of the Open Society Foundations.

Vasiliki Polykarpou is a scholar working on political coalitions, violence, feminist and anti-racist politics.

Veronique Sehier – Planning Familial France, Member of EA Board, Member of the Group of Research on anti-Gender attacks.

Prof. Xenia Chryssochoou obtained degrees in Psychology from the University of Athens and the University Rene Descartes-Paris V (PhD 1996).

Yasmine Amal is a self-taught artist based between Morocco and Berlin. Her work explores kinship, feminity and spiritual interconnectedness within an elemental and metaphysical space, unfolding through bold colours and rhythmic patterns.

President of the Greek Forum of Refugees and a Bureau Member of the European Migration Forum in Brussels.