Tatjana Christelbauer

Tatjana Christelbauer is art_science practitioner, founder, and president of the Vienna-based international association ACD-Agency for Cultural Diplomacy

She works on the interface of cognitive humanities, new media technologies, and diplomacy.

Tatjana´professional background is in intercultural education, as an employed consultant at the Lower Austrian Government /edu dept. for 28 years; Museum educator in collaboration with Austrian Cultural Forums; dance & fine artist, currently working in ERASMUS+ projects related to environmental education in dance arts; Tatjana initiated, organised and took part in conferences, public debates and academic courses on arts as a tool for societal challenges-oriented cultural diplomacy2030 (in particular SDG 4.7, SDG5, SDG8), spotlighting on the role of art practices for advocacy of gender-related issues, prevention of all forms of violence in international relations, at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Berlin, Vienna Diplomatic Academy, United Nations Vienna, a.o institutions, thematising the Cultural Diplomacy paradigm shift toward the UN Agenda2030 and global sustainable development on international conferences public debates and panels, lectures and workshops on the issues of gender&diversity, environmental and social policies.

Tatjana is a board member of several Austrian non-profit organizations and communities, such as IG Kultur, UN Women Austria.

ACD-Agency for Cultural Diplomacy (Agentur für Kulturdiplomatie) was founded by Tatjana Christelbauer MA and Mag.iur Erhard Christelbauer MBA and registered by the Federal Police Office in Vienna Austria on Mai 12th 2016 as a non-profit-cultural-association, whose founding members are academic professionals, interested in and engaged in the research and practice of Cultural Diplomacy in the sustainable development process, shedding light on the impact of arts and activities of the civil society organizations (CSOs), diaspora communities and individuals at cross-generational and cross-sectoral scale, toward 2030 ….
Creating regional and international projects and initiatives, COOPs for more peaceful and just societies, Austrian SDG Award winner 2Orasnge Feather Initiative” in 2022