Maja Kireta

Edited on 09/07/2025

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Maja Kireta

  • Croatia

  • Croatian, English, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, German, French
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Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions

Validated Expert info

Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

 

1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities

 

2. Thematic expertise:
[Strategic Urban Planning, Urban Design]

 

3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
> Integrated and participatory design of strategies
> Sustaining stakeholder engagement and translating strategies into actions

Summary

An architect and an urban planner (Faculty of architecture, Zagreb 2004.). Sefl-employed, independent consultant.  Neuro linguistic programming practitioner.  

Active in practice as an architect and urban planner for 21 years. In the first 10 years of the career, exclusively engaged in architectural practice: design and urban planning, which gave a solid basis for work in the preparation of projects and transfer of knowledge. For the last 10 years, most of the work has been in the preparation of urban development projects through:

  • European projects and networks (Urbact, Interreg, New European Bauhaus)
  • framework for architectural, urban planning, landscape and art competitions (architectural design competition - ADC) which are the first step in good preparation and implementation of projects concerning the development of urban areas. 

Professional experience includes active leading engagements since y.2010 in: 

  • Sustainable town - Development of conceptual architectural and sustainable solution for urban renovation;
  • Urbact III MAPS - Military Assets as Public Spaces, action planning network, ULG manager;
  • Urbact III Come IN! - Talking Houses - Shared Stories, transfer network, ULG manager;
  • Kultura nova – Whose city it is?, collaborative, advocacy platform for integral, participative and contemporary urban planning, coordinator;
  • Interreg Danube transnational program: Advanced coGeneration Options for Reintegrating local Assets (AGORA);
  • Interreg central Europe: BLUE SAMM – Blueprints for Local Green Deal in Small and Medium Municipalities;
  • European urban initiative: InterACT Green - Green infrastructure InterACTive management and regeneration tested through River Drava Forest Park in Varaždin;
  • Ubract IV C4 Talent - Where Talent Meets Opportunity: Building Thriving Business Ecosystems;
  • Association of architects, regional president;
  • Croatian chamber of architects, regional president;
  • Committee for the evaluation of the architectural success in the City, vice president; 

Preparation of architectural competitions, i.e. programming of the space in >10 Croatian cities, includes since y.2014: Faculty of organization and informatics, Techno park, Lace visitors centre, Public space in the city, Main city squares, Arts and crafts square, Memorial house x2,  Memorial park with a monument, Public space with a memorial (7), Revitalization of the 24 ha green neglected city heart, Library&farmers market polyvalent center, River Drava and forest park 30ha, Graveyard in connection to green infrastructure, Neanderthal culture interpretation centre, Innovation centre, Health and medical centre,  Regional fire center, Music school x2.

 

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