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Louisa Steinwärder has shared the management of the Cross Innovation Hub with Raffaela Seitz since 2021. Previously, she was responsible for the conception and organisation of cross-industry offers in the area of the Cross Innovation Hub.

She studied Cultural Studies and German Literature at the University of Bremen and the Universidad de Valencia. As part of her Master's degree in German Literature at the University of Hamburg, she spent two months as a DAAD scholarship holder at Istanbul Üniversitesi. In addition to organising cultural events/projects, Louisa Steinwärder has worked in communications for theatres and festivals, most recently at Hamburg's Thalia Theater and at the "Theater der Welt" festival.

Nicole Wittek is responsible for cooperation and partner management at the Cross Innovation Hub and is the point of contact for all companies and organisations that want to find out more about the potential of cross innovation with creative experts and are interested in working together.

She studied Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Business Administration at the University of Regensburg. There she played a key role in the development and management of the inner-city creative centre and helped to establish the area of cultural and creative industries promotion. Most recently, she worked in an interdisciplinary office for urban development, where she designed co-creative formats and implemented them in projects for city centre development and mobility.

Nicole has been voluntarily organising projects at the interface of culture, (creative) economy and urban development for over ten years and is a founding and board member of the association obenstadt e.V., which promotes multifunctional roof uses, and is co-initiator of the Hamburg Roof Days.

Sebastian works in both partner and programme management at the Cross Innovation Hub. He is the point of contact for companies that want to turn their challenges into creative innovation projects (partner management), while at the same time actively helping to shape the content and methodology of the programmes (programme management). Through this dual function, he ensures that the needs of the companies flow directly into the creative processes - a win-win situation for everyone involved.

After training as a media designer for image & sound, Sebastian completed his degree in Media & Information (Dipl.) at HAW Hamburg. His professional experience includes working as a software trainer at Apple and as a senior producer at a digital agency for YouTube formats.