Magdalena Ziomek studied art history in Poland and project management in Germany. She defines herself a creative worker and a social entrepreneur. Since 2006 Magdalena Ziomek has invested her academic knowledge and her personal experience to develop effective, tailor-made solutions that empower people who strive with administrative, financial, social and cultural barriers while seeking to make a living and to pursue their professional projects. Magdalena Ziomek is founder, CEO and board member of the following organizations: non-profit association ‘agitPolska’ (with migrant communities, since 2006), non-profit association ‘Smart network of creative’ (with artists and creative professionals, since 2014), ‘Smart Coop’ (with freelance workers since 2015) and non-profit limited ‘Smart Bildungswerk’ (with freelancers from the training and educational field, since 2019).