Katharina Weber is lead project manager at Bonn Promotion Department (BNPD) and is as such also a management team member of YOUROPE – The European Festival Association. In all of the various projects the association is involved in Katharina works on creating tools and guidelines that will help festivals become fit for the future. Her most recent key topics are event sustainability and young social innovation. Before joining the association, she had worked as a journalist at newspapers and radio stations in Germany for seven years. She received degrees in English Studies and Applied Linguistics from the University of Bonn.