Mattijs Maussen

Mattijs MAUSSEN (1970) is an advisor for large scale European cultural interventions and innovations. His strengths is to combine strategic insights with organisational skills in large scale creative processes. Collecting civic energy through engagement where there is attention to voices that are not heard is key part of his work. He initiates partnerships of Enterprises, Media, Ministries and large Cities and engaged public interest groups and sets the first steps together with them to make the idea work. Before starting his own company Mattijs worked as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and build a practise around migration, culture and education. All over Europe he has led numbers of projects including doing strategic projects for the European Commission, making Country strategies work, writing Regional Subsidy Project Selection programmes, drawing Transnational development plans, designing Public Procurement processes and managing European Funding schemes.
During his work in the field of migration he has worked in 65 countries. In his ongoing work with European Capitals of Culture he has worked with 20 cities that competed all together with more than 100 candidate cities – 13 teams were successful.
Among others Mattijs worked as advisor to Chemnitz (DE), Brussels -Molenbeek (BE), Faro (PT), Belfast (UK), Timisoara (RO), Galway & Dublin (IE), Siena (IT), Leeuwarden (NL), San Sebastian (ES), Pilsen (CZ) in their bidding and implementation as European Capital of Culture (2007-ongoing). Further assignments include organising strategic debates and action research in the field of education, migration and culture for the European Commission and Ministries all over Europe and Africa (2000 – ongoing). He is particularly proud about being one of the people that turned a failed Ecoc bid into a 3 year large scale programme innovating a metropole via Dublin’s Culture Connects (2015 –2019). In the further past Mattijs was creative strategist for European, regional and metropolitan chiefs (2007-2012).