András Farkas - CSO, PONT Group

CIIC - Cluj-Napoca (Centrul de Inovare și Imaginație Civică)Board Member

Sep. 2022Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RomaniaCIIC Cluj stands for the Civic Innovation and Imagination Centre created and coordinated by Cluj-Napoca Citiy Hall, aims to bring all the positive energies of the city into an organised framework where these ideas can be analysed and debated with experts. Through the CIIC we want to encourage participation and involvement of citizens in the development of Cluj and make the best use of the creative resources of the community. The CIIC model was developed for the first time in Cluj and is currently replicated by several urban administration throughout Romania. CIIC Cluj-Napoca, creat și coordonat de Primăria Cluj-Napoca își propune să aducă toate energiile pozitive ale orașului într-un cadru organizat în care aceste idei să poată fi analizate și dezbătute alături de experți. Prin CIIC dorim să încurajăm participarea, implicarea cetățenilor în ceea ce înseamnă dezvoltarea Clujului și să utilizăm cât mai bine resursele creative ale comunității. Modelul CIIC este primul din România și este preluat și replicat de mai multe administrații urbane la nivelul țării.

PONT GroupProject Manager for the Culture Next cities network

Jul. 2022Cluj, RomaniaProject manager on behalf of PONT Group in the Culture Next cities network working on conference facilitation, cross-cutting issues, cultural worker mobility and measuring the impact of culture based on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Culture NextExecutive Team Lead on Mobility Programme, SDG Impact Measurement and Thematic Working Groups

Jul. 2022Hybrid

Thomson Reuters FoundationChangemaker

Jul. 2022 - Dec. 2022London, England, United KingdomThe Changemakers programme brings together some of the most inspiring pioneers and innovators from across the globe, committed to developing concrete solutions to pressing human rights issues in alignment with Trust Conference themes.

Network of European Youth CapitalsActing President

May. 2022Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RomaniaEuropean Youth Capital cities decided to formalise their cooperation and to create an official Network of European Youth Capitals. I have the mandate to officialise the network and to caretake it until a first official board election.

FIX Cluj (Cluj Innovation and Experiment Fund)Project Manager

Nov. 2021 - Aug. 2022Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RomaniaThe Cluj Innovation and Experiment Fund (FIX CLUJ) is a project focused on building ecosystems that will help communities rebuild themselves, helping groups of young people from Cluj Napoca to create fully functional entrepreneurship initiatives, intergenerationally driven, and focusing on social impact.

allyourtimeCo-Founder and CEO

Nov. 2019TransylvaniaTake back control of your time. TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR TIME. allyourtime is your companion in managing your life’s units of time. allyourtime is for you if you are eager to understand and manage your time efficiently. It is a unique hybrid tool integrating paperback and digital solutions, the perfect proof that handwriting is still a vital part of our life. This is even more relevant in a social context when that unit of time is not spent individually, so it allows social interaction of humans in the same physical or virtual space.

Piran 2025 European Capital of Culture - Candidate CityAdvisor on Participation and Strategy Development

Jul. 2019 - Feb. 2020Piran, SloveniaPiran, Izola, Koper and Ankaran have joined forces and are applying together as European Capital of Culture 2025! The Mayors of the four Istrian municipalities signed, on July 5, 2019, a letter of intent aimed at a joint candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2025. The four municipalities are applying under the common banner “Piran-Pirano 4 Istria 2025”. The aim is to jointly promote cultural activities within a single cross-border destination that is part of a European-wide cultural tourist offer. The European Capital of Culture is the most successful cultural initiative in the EU. The title remains extremely popular and, since 1985, it has been awarded to more than 60 cities, including Athens, Liverpool, Istanbul, Florence, Amsterdam, Linz, Wroclaw and many more. Each year, two European cities from two different countries are awarded this title and become beacons of European cultural activity and cooperation. 2025: One city from Slovenia and one from Germany are set to be nominated as European Capitals of Culture.

Baia Mare 2022Urban Youth Circle Builder

Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2020Baia MareThe Urban Youth Circle builds on three main priorities enhanced by three horizontal layers which providing the right setting for the three priorities to be followed. The Urban Youth Circle is about the Human-Self, acting Among-Humans while being influenced by the Human-and-Nature relationship. The Urban Youth Circle happens in a Human-Time (from 2018 to 2025 with a main peak in 2022) and in a specific Human-Space (which is Baia Mare, as the physical space for the European Youth Capital but also other physical spaces, such as the surrounding nature-rich Maramures, but other cities and regions of Europe, too, completed by a virtual space of interaction through digital tools). All of this is provided by young people supported by a background web of organisations, networks and institutions who together form the Providers-for-Humans.

CRITBIZMentoring Coordinator

Jan. 2019 - Jul. 2019North-West Region, RomaniaMentoring Coordinator at CRITBIZ. Developing business plans of 48 selected ideas before providing 40k EUR funding. Working with 8 mentors, 48 business ideas in 8 counties. 2016 hours of mentoring work.

Cluj Cultural CentreMentor - Culturepreneurs

Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2018Cluj County, RomaniaSuntem în căutare de persoane pasionate din industriile culturale și IT&C, care vor să dezvolte sau să lucreze la o idee sau un produs/serviciu în mediul cultural pentru unul din domeniile:

Debrecen 2023 European Capital of Culture - Candidate CityAdvisor on Participation and Youth

Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2018Debrecen, HungaryDeveloping aspects of the bid regarding participation and youth. Representing the city before the Jury Panel. Taking part in the Jury visit in Debrecen.

SALTO YouthMember - Think Tank on Youth Participation - SALTO-PI

Mar. 2018Tallinn, EstoniaSALTO-YOUTH Participation and Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI) is establishing an international Think Tank on youth participation with the aim of co-creating solutions for increasing young people’s active participation in society, particularly in decision-making. The Think Tank will bring together a diverse range of thinkers from within and outside the youth sector. We are looking for visionary thinkers who have the willingness to dedicate their time for tackling the topic of how to increase the level of involvement by and contribution of young people in society.

innoHUB Coworking SpaceMentor

Feb. 2018 - Nov. 2018Established in Saint George City (Sfântu Gheorghe, Sepsiszentgyörgy), InnoHub is a place where creative and dedicated people meet to share ideas to gather information and mostly to inspire and get inspired by others. The coworkers are not only freelancers but students, young people who want more, to learn, to experience and to make part of a community of people with initiative. Our mission is to facilitate the connection between education and economy. The whole activity is focused on excellence domains, based on the potential of the region, as Balneological and Health tourism, Healthy lifestyle, Renewable Energy, Creative Industry and IT – supported by the Regional Smart Specialization Strategy. Are you a #differencemaker? Do you want to develop your business? If yes … then we would like to support you and your dream by involving you in this 2-month-long journey called ACCELERATOR by innoHUB! What ACCELERATOR means? # Mentors will adopt you for 2 months! # Free use of innoHUB Coworking Space! # Developing your own Canvas Business Model TWICE! # Knowledge transfer in 6 topics! # Strategic partnership building/matchmaking and b2b # Community. Synergies with other #differencemakers # THE GALA = investor & pitch day.

PONT Group, Com'On Romania projectProject Manager

Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2018Cluj County, RomaniaThe aim of the project is to develop a participatory consultation process in five Romanian cities for identifying the needs and aspirations of young people in terms of civic participation by initiating local actions trough informal groups and decision-making mechanisms of participatory democracy. The overall objective of the project is to develop local ecosystems of youth participatory budgeting and to create a national participatory budgeting movement (Com'On Romania) by which informal groups of young people will gain access to financial support. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES of the project are: O1: developing local youth ecosystems through the direct involvement of young people in consultations, through common thinking and through interaction with stakeholders, O2: encouraging young people to get involved in the solving of problems that arise in local communities through informal forms of association and collaboration, and through creating a framework of financial support for these initiatives O3: involving young people in the decision-making processes that affect them through mechanisms of direct participatory democracy, OD: (organizational development): developing the collaboration network of local and national partners for achieving a national platform for participatory budgeting mechanisms built on local youth. EXPECTED RESULTS IN NUMBERS * 350 young participants and decision makers involved in the structured dialogue mechanisms implemented in five cities, through which we identify the needs of young people and through which the premises of potential participatory budgeting mechanisms are going to be created * more than 75 organizations, stakeholders involved in the mechanism through direct meetings and interactions for completing the key activities of the project * 1500 people consulted using an online consultation process * 5 monitoring reports concerning the preparations on a local level for the implementation of the participatory budgeting mechanisms

CREATE CINEMA Workshop - (Re-imagining the Old Cinema as a Youth Centre)Lead Facilitator

Sep. 2017 - Oct. 2017Bacau County, RomaniaInterdisciplinary workshop with young people on creating concepts on the new Youth Centre of Bacau.

Central European Startup AwardsNational Jury Member, Romania

Aug. 2017 - Sep. 2017Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaCentral European Startup Awards is part of the Global Startup Awards network, now consisting of 35+ countries across the globe. In Central and Eastern Europe 10 countries compete in 12 categories, that focus heavily on current tech trends and innovation that are shaping the future of humanity: Best Biotech Startup, Best Smart City Solution, Best Social Impact startup, Best Fintech and Best AI startup among others.

CITIZEN Y Resource Centre - Com'ON Europe projectProfessional Coordinator

Jul. 2017 - Jun. 2019Cluj County, RomaniaThe GOAL of this project was to create an open source framework for European cities in implementing participatory budgeting processes, which address young people not just as creators and initiators but also as decision makers themselves and a platform for cooperation between cities which applied similar processes or are willing to apply it in the near future. The GENERAL OBJECTIVE of this project is to contribute to the improvement of civic participation of young people in local life through local level participatory budgeting mechanisms. We will contribute to the increase young people’s spirit of creativity, associativity, entrepreneurship, and community development by providing a safe environment for planning and coming forward as informal groups with small-scale initiatives, while providing funding on behalf of the municipalities, and delegating decisions towards the local community about which initiatives to be supported.

Capitala Tineretului din RomâniaStrategy Director and Executive Lead on the City Selection Process

Apr. 2016Romania · HybridCapitala Tineretului din România, care funcționează pe principii similare cu Capitala Europeană a Tineretului (European Youth Capital - www.europeanyouthcapital.org), este cel mai ambițios program național destinat tinerilor, pentru că pune accent pe dezvoltarea ecosistemelor de tineret din zonele românești, în general, și pe dezvoltarea ecosistemelor de tineret urbane, în mod special. În cadrul programului, autoritățile locale colaborează cu organizațiile neguvernamentale de și pentru tineret și cu mediul privat, și îi pun pe tineri în centrul procesului de dezvoltare urbană. Anual, un oraș din România primește, în urma unui concurs de concepte, titlul de Capitala Tineretului din România și este sprijinit financiar, respectiv prin formare și consultanță, în pregătirea și implementarea inițiativelor din dosarul de candidatură. Primul oraș din România care poartă titlul de Capitala Tineretului din România este Timișoara, care și-a asumat pionieratul programului în perioada 2 mai 2016 - 1 mai 2017. Mai mult, ediția din 2017 a programului se desfășoară sub Înaltul Patronaj al Președintelui României, Klaus Iohannis. Programul Capitala Tineretului din România a fost lansat în anul 2016.

PONT GroupProject manager: Castle in Transylvania - Strategy and Development Models

Mar. 2015 - Apr. 2017Cluj-NapocaThe project aims the creation of a strategic framework for the Castle in Transylvania programme, an online database of 300 castles and mansions from Transylvania, and a community of 20,000+ people for the programme. EN: www.castleintransylvania.ro RO: www.castelintransilvania.ro HU: www.kastelyerdelyben.ro The project is also reachable on Facebook.

PONT GroupStrategy Director

Jan. 2015Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaStrategic consultancy and NGO established in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania devoted to conceptual social innovation.

Network of European Youth CapitalsSecretary General

Jul. 2014 - Jan. 2019EuropeThe Network of European Youth Capitals reunites cities holding this title since 2009 to 2016. The network works on strategies, guides and tools for European cities willing to strongly commit to youth participation and involvement of young generations in urban and regional development processes.

PONT GroupProject Manager: COM'ON Cluj-Napoca 2015 - Participatory Budgeting for Youth

May. 2014 - Dec. 2015Cluj-NapocaCOM'ON Cluj-Napoca is a participatory budgeting process for youth, Cluj-Napoca, 2015's European Youth Capital. Project coordinated by the PONT Group in partnership with the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca and the SHARE Cluj-Napoca Federation.

PONT GroupProgramme manager: Castle in Transylvania

Jan. 2010 - Sep. 2016Cluj-Napoca, TransylvaniaCastle in Transylvania imagines the future through a community and an organisational support network for the Transylvanian castles and mansions which aims to conserve, restore and capitalise the economic, cultural and tourist potential. Castle in Transylvania imagines the future by building on the principles of additionality, sustainability, complementarity person-to-person relations, which together form a network and a movement based on trust, shared values and a vision that takes the present (state of castles and mansions) as it is and puts it in the service of the future. The Castle in Transylvania project has set a goal of creating a network of experts within relevant fields, who can exchange and share information to help increase the sustainability of Romania's cultural heritage. The project aims to develop strategic thinking by examining the economic and social value of castles of Transylvania. Our organization will develop a local and regional plan to attract alternative resources necessary for the restoration of these buildings.

PONT GroupCEO

May. 2008 - Dec. 2014Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaStrategic consultancy and NGO established in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania devoted to conceptual social innovation.

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