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CROSS-LOOKING is co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme and carried out by a consortium of ⁶ organisations:

Università Iuav di Venezia (Italy)

Università Iuav di Venezia is a renowned institution specializing in architecture, design, and the arts. Within it, the MeLaMediaLab is a research laboratory dedicated to contemporary arts, focusing on their presentation and exhibition, with particular attention to multimedia and performative practice.

National Gallery of Armenia (Armenia)

The National Gallery of Armenia is the major museum in country with a remarkable collection of masterpieces of world-famous Armenian, Russian and EU artists. NGA carries out scientific-exhibition, research, restoration, publishing and educational activities. In 2021, NGA also established its new photography department, making it the first in the Caucasus.

Organ Vida (Croatia)

Organ Vida is a leading Croatian institution for promoting and researching contemporary photography practices in Croatia and on the international scene since its foundation in 2008. It biannually runs the Organ Vida’s international photography festival in Zagreb gathering international young contemporary artists to discuss critical and global socio-political topics like images in the digital age, identity, and the exploration of reality through fiction.

NOOR Foundation
(The Netherlands)

The NOOR Foundation is an international non-profit organisation committed to democratic principles and positive social change through the creative advancement of visual journalism and documentary arts. NOOR produces innovative photographic and visual communication projects in partnership with museums, festivals, universities and organisations on critical issues such as global warming, migration, civil rights and equity and justice; it also hosts immersive workshops and master classes aimed to train young photographers and filmmakers, supporting world-wide access to photography education.

Université Paris Cité (France)

Université Paris Cité is France’s leading multidisciplinary university. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including Arts, Humanities and Languages; Human, Economic and Social Sciences. It also offers a Master’s degree specifically focused on communication and intercultural strategies. In particular, UNIPARIS’ LISI Second Level Master’s Course - as Language, Interpretation and Intercultural Strategies - provides teaching that combines the study of international and intercultural relations through the reading, analysis and understanding of images, primarily photographs but also motion pictures.

Unione della Romagna Faentina (Italy)

Unione della Romagna Faentina is an association of 6 Municipalities in the Emilia-Romagna Region. URF promotes youngsters’ active citizenship in cultural initiatives by building bridges between school education and cultural associations. In the field of photography, URF actively cooperates with entities like Association Aula 21 and the Cultural Association Fototeca Manfrediana, bottom-up collective of youngsters working for the diffusion of photography as an artistic language.

Associated Partners:

The Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation – EHRF
(Egypt)

EHRF was founded in 2013, with the objective of promoting and safeguarding Egyptian and regional cultural heritage. Its first mission was to deliver and design, for government staff and concerned organizations, courses on Disaster Risk Preparedness and First Aid to Cultural Heritage (FACH) on cooperation with ICCROM.

Armenian General Benevolent Union
(Egypt)

Active in cultural events, projects & activities, covering & funding projects regarding Armenian history, heritage & culture.

Garanti Kultur A.S. – SALT (Turkey)

A Turkish cultural institution, based in Istanbul, that develops innovative programs to create platforms for encounters and co-research along intersections of different disciplines (visual practices, social life, economic history).

TEAM

Andrea Savorani Neri
Creative Director

Maria Malvina Borgherini
(Università Iuav di Venezia)

Eleonora Bonino
(Università Iuav di Venezia)

Betül Ellialtıoğlu
(NOOR Foundation)

Elisabeth Navarro
(Université Paris Cité)

Vigen Galstyan
(The National Gallery of Armenia)

Barbara Gregov
(ORGAN VIDA)

Lovro Japundžić
(ORGAN VIDA)

Lea Vene
(ORGAN VIDA)

Benedetta Diamanti
(unione della romagna faentina)

Elisabetta Di Martino
(unione della romagna faentina)

Simona Parisini
(unione della romagna faentina)

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