Marianna Zervogiorgi Joins TEH as Youth Hub Coordinator

With great pride and joy, CULTTERRA announces that Marianna Zervogiorgi, an active member of our team, has been selected as Youth Hub Coordinator at Trans Europe Halles (TEH), a European network of independent cultural centres and organisations.

The Youth Hub aims to strengthen youth participation and representation within the network, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge exchange and collective action at the European level.

For us, however, this news holds a special meaning.

It is deeply moving to see people who have dedicated countless hours of voluntary work to their communities grow and take on leadership roles within international networks.

It is particularly important to us that people like Marianna, who discovered and developed their potential through local cultural initiatives such as ours, receive recognition.

In a city like Elefsina, where opportunities for young people in arts and culture remain limited, journeys like hers carry even greater significance. Where we grow up, the educational opportunities available to us and our socioeconomic circumstances all shape our opportunities to participate and develop.

Equally important is the fact that a leadership position dedicated to youth participation and representation is being taken on by a young person herself. Someone who understands firsthand the needs, challenges and aspirations of her generation. For us, meaningful youth participation means that young people themselves have a voice and responsibility in decisions that affect them.

Marianna's journey reminds us that knowledge, experience and skills are not acquired exclusively through formal education. They are also cultivated through collective action, self-organisation and volunteering.

And this gives us hope for a more open and inclusive European cultural landscape, where young people do not all need to start from the same place to have a voice and take on leadership roles.

Marianna, we are incredibly proud of you! 💜

From Elefsina to Europe, we continue to claim space, opportunities and representation for all young people.