hEXPO is a festival/ workshop, which is a continuing process, instead of focusing on some specific area, it spreads over all the spectrum of activities, which are necessary for successful (re)production of public/ civic/ cultural life. The aim of the festival is to provide the training for the so-called "self-producer" and the necessary exchange of knowledge among the  participating individuals, that would result in those individuals being able to organize and realize in practice a civil/ cultural life, even in the hostile or uninterested local environments. Along these lines at MZX we defined a social and technological platform, which combines the knowledges of a journalist, organiser, producer, performer, historian, archiver, political activist, artist, system administrator, radio engineer, manager,... All these profiles also describe the vast area of interest of the hEXPO  festival.

Working groups are structured like this:
 - one third are mixed international/ local "tutors/ generators"
 - two thirds are (again mixed international/ local) "students". Half the  students are from the local areas, the other half are 'mobile' - they spend one week in each of the three places of festival/ workshop.

The complete human structure:
- 18 international guests/ tutors
- 18 local tutors (local meaning also Croatian, Serb, Bosnian... Austrian?, Italian?)
- 36 mobile students (18 international and 18 local)
- 36 students from local places

Three groups are formed:
Each week a different group appears with their program and events in a different place. Places are not restricted to one town but extended to the nearby cultural centers (Klagenfurt, Trieste, Graz). So: in the three weeks in the period between 15th August to 15th September there are three sets of complete events in Maribor, Ljubljana and Koper. This events are loosely synchronised and broadcast to other two locations by means of internet multimedia possibilities.  Some people will be able to attend all three weeks, others will be present only a couple of days. The fourth week will be an all-together meeting, presumably somewhere in Istria.

The concept comes from Marko Kosnik and involves 3 weeks of interlinked activities in the following clubs/ places of activities in Slovenia:
- Maribor: MKC, Kibla, Pekarna, Radio MARS
- Ljubljana: Kapelica, Metelkova, Kinoteka, Ljudmila, Radio Student, MZX
- Koper: MKC, Pina
And hopefully also in this neighbouring places:
- Graz (ESC)
- Klagenfurt (Radio Agora)
- Trieste (Radio Fragola, Posto delle Fragole)
The organisational structure will be as much horizontal as practical. All these places have their regular activities and infrastructure which will be also part of the festival. This is then their 'input' in both means and program.

Co-producers are:
Every organisation with its location and infrastructure is an equal member/ co-producer of the festival and  supports the festival with its infrastructure, personnel and logistics. Each co-producer is free to propose/ present a program that he would like to organise and share with other places/co-producers. These are the above mentioned clubs, cultural centers.

Apart from these 'location' co-producers there are also organisational, media and communicational producers, which take care of the all the resulting electronic media interlinking and synchronisations between the places of events..
- Ljudmila, Radio Student, Ministry of experiment , all in Ljubljana
- Kibla, radio MARS and MKC, all in Maribor
- Pina in Koper
 Co-producers in this category provide also the additional events: lectures, workshops and other special events using their communication infrastructure.

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