Lights On 2024: Unlocking Sustainability

Dagna Gmitrowicz is the co-founder of KulturNest e.V. and a specialist in innovation, inclusion and training. Her practice combines four areas: art, learning, therapy and nature. Her daily work has supported many people's personal development and creativity thanks to her competencies as a forest therapy guide (certified by ANFT, USA), and therapist (certified by the M. Erickson Institute). As a painter, she explores different perceptions of reality by studying the natural environment and the nature of humankind. Over the last twenty-five years, she has been strongly involved in developing quality in the Youth, Erasmus and European Solidarity Corps Programmes. In this area, she facilitated meetings of trainers pools, seminars on inclusion and networking. She recently developed educational material on how to work with the issue of crisis in an intercultural environment. She belongs to several trainers' pools: TOSCA, TOT It's up to Me, soliDARE.

Oleg Koefoed is an actionist, working in the crossing pathways of science, research, culture, places, communities, businesses and governments, to contribute to the making of a common regenerative future. He leads the Center for Vitalism and Regenerative Transformation, hosted by Promentum in the heart of Copenhagen, and serves as a project maker, teacher, guide and counsellor. Since 1999, he has served as a teacher, course and program developer and mentor/supervisor in numerous contexts linked to sustainability, culture and regenerative transformations, including the Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen University, Ars Baltica, the EU Baltic Sea Region PA for Culture, Valletta2018 European Capital of Culture, municipalities, regions, and networks in Europe and beyond.

• View the photo gallery here

• View the recap video by Maciejka Mazan here

• Browse the Lights On 2024 booklet here