Marija Popović holds a Master in economics. Employed at Institution Student Cultural Centre in Novi Sad as a producer and international cooperation manager; runs 2 large-scale Creative Europe projects for the Foundation EXIT; worked as a grant expert on a Delegation of the EU's grant scheme within social sector; has managed EU projects in the field of human rights, social inclusion, youth and culture; Working as a freelance fundraiser and consultant; since 2000 working as project and organisational manager, trainer, external evaluator, consultant; assessing Erasmus+ project applications for the: British Council, and Ecorys (UK)/until 2020, and currently still for Anefore asbl (Luxembourg), Tempus Foundation (Serbia), EUPA (Malta); has worked as a Project Officer for SALTO South East Europe (YOUTH, YiA, Erasmus+, ESC); author of several publications; member of the Team Europe of the DEU in Serbia; member of 2 international pools of trainers; accreditor of ESC candidate organisations for SALTO SEE; taught EU centralised programmes (Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens) at the specialistic course at the University of Novi Sad;