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Lucia Seel Seel

Country AUSTRIA

Region Europe

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Organization Lucia Seel International Consulting GmbH

Position General Manager

Bio TCI member since 2011, Lucia has more than 19 years of experience in innovation/cluster policies, creative industries and gender equality, developing cooperation projects, networking initiatives and capacity building activities at European level. As Manager of Lucia Seel International Consulting since 2011, she was involved in various roles and positions in flagship European projects such as the European Cluster Collaboration Platform, Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform, among many others in various funding programmes. Currently she manages the Interreg Europea DEBUTING project, and participates in the Erasmus+ PENELOPE project, both dealing with gender equality through clusters from different perspectives (cluster policy and cluster management). Between 2019-2021 she was a member of the European Cluster Expert Group of the European Commission (DG GROW).
As a passionate and experienced communicator, Lucia is a well-known speaker and moderator at international conferences and workshops; she uses her knowledge on cluster strategy building in her work as Gold and Silver Label expert of the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis / EUCLES.
As an active international person Lucia was founder and the first president of AIESEC in Romania and is now member of several large networks like TCI, EWMD – European Women Management Development Network for which she was National Representative for Austria in the International Board (2019-2023).
Lucia graduated magna cum laude from the Academy of Economic Sciences in Bucharest/Romania. She worked both for multinational companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi Centrade in Bucharest and Silhouette International in Austria (area manager for South-East Asia and South Europe, handling a sales budget of more than 30 Mio. Euro), for small companies and public administration bodies in Austria and Romania.
Lucia is Austrian, but Romanian born and speaks 6 languages

Current Responsabilities benchmarking, cluster development, cluster startegy, facilitation, management, policy advise, project management, cluster accreditation, consultancy, capacity building, training, foresight

Areas of expertise digitalization, innovation, internationalisation, skills, business strategy, RIS3

Geographic areas of work Europe

Website http://www.luciaseel.eu