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Dan Podjed
anthropologist and ethnologist, *1975, Celje, Slovenia

Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts and Senior Research Advisor at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana. Since 2022 he leads a national research programme Ethnological, Anthropological and Folklore Studies Research on Everyday Life. He has led 10 research projects, both national and international (as a national coordinator), and has cooperated in many EU projects (Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, Creative Europe, etc.). He acted as Convenor of EASA Applied Anthropology Network from its inception in 2010 until 2018 and continues his involvement as one of the Executive Advisors of the network. In 2013 he was the founder and from 2013 to 2018 the organiser of the international event Why the World Needs Anthropologists, which has become the main meeting point for applied anthropologists in Europe and beyond.