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Collaboration Grants scheme of European Cultural Foundation. Deadline extended to 20 September 2010

Are you working on a cultural project with partners from different European countries, maybe with different sectors collaborating?  Then your project could be eligible for a grant!  

Basic info - Independent artistic and cultural organisations can apply for the ECF Collaboration Grants scheme that funds transnational and cross-sectoral activities. Other sectorial organisations can be involved as a project partner.

Management Topic: Financing & Sponsorship
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Sep 01, 2010

Culture Action Europe Conference 2010

October 7-9, 2010, Brussels/Belgium - The Culture Action Europe conference has a long established tradition as the key focal point for cultural operators, civil society, experts and policy makers to come together and debate key issues at stake for Europe’s cultural life.

The conference will inspire, argue and debate what choices we make now and how they will alter the landscape of future EU policies for culture. It will try to embrace two interconnected visions: first, the contributions of arts and cultural sector to the vision of Europe in the future; second, the recognition and support for these contributions within the range of programmes and policies that the EU has to offer.
 
The programme for the conference is concentrated and focused on in-depth debate, allow space for extensive audience participation and interaction between speakers and delegates.
Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 18, 2010

Arts Council England (ACE) delists unpaid jobs

Arts Council England (ACE) has suspended adverts for unpaid jobs on its Arts Jobs website, due to the high volume of placements that contravene minimum wage legislation. A statement on the site declares that this suspension is only temporary, but covers all unpaid work, work experience, voluntary roles and internships. In line with its commitment to ensure that artists and arts professionals are appropriately remunerated for the work they do, ACE has emphasised that it recognises the value of “genuine volunteering opportunities”, but states that these must be of mutual benefit not just a way of “attempting to circumvent” paying a proper wage.
Management Topic: Job & Training
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 17, 2010

Conference on Creative Tourism in Barcelona

 

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, urban planners, policy designers, artists, cultural activists and tourist professionals to assess the benefits of international collaboration in the rapidly developing field of creative tourism. The conference will provide an opportunity for face-to-face networking prior to the creation of a virtual network on the Internet.
The conference programme is designed to provide ample room for networking and discussion, and participants will also have the opportunity to promote their own creative tourism projects.
Management Topic: Marketing & Communication
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 12, 2010

Regional Responses and Global Shifts: Actors, Institutions and Organisations

Regional Studies Association PecsA review on the Regional Studies Association’s 16th Annual International Conference 2010 

With about 600 delegates from 50 countries this year’s International Annual Conference took place from May, 24th till 26th. The conference was hosted in the European Capital of Culture 2010 Pécs, Southern Hungary. 
 
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is an international learned society concerned with the analysis of regional and urban issues. The organisation represents an authoritative voice and research network for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers. It organises events and conference, publishes journals, a newsletter and a book series and funds related research networks.
 
The discussion of the conference’s main topic »Regional Responses and Global Shifts: Actors, Institutions and Organisations« aimed at a better understanding of the complex array of those actors involved in today’s regional development agendas. 
Management Topic: Organisation & Leadership
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 11, 2010

Arts Management Newsletter No. 98: Education

As an educational major, it has been possible to study cultural management for nearly the past 50 years. Just looking at our education guide online, you will quickly get an overview of just how many degree programs there are currently in this area worldwide. This in turn has contributed to the fact that many students go abroad now to study, thereby making cultural industries increasingly international. It also leads us to ask the following questions: what are the different programs available and which subjects are important for students? Moreover, which fields of research are being developed in result of these teachings and in what ways has cultural management profited from such degree programs? These are just some of the questions we would like to investigate in the latest issue of Arts Management Newsletter.
Management Topic: Miscellaneous
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 11, 2010

Arts as Cultural Diplomacy - A Forum for Young Leaders

Between 11 and 16 July the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) in cooperation with the European Cultural Parliament gathered more than 30 participants at its European headquarters in central Berlin. Some participants had come from as far as Mexico, the US, Canada and Swaziland to meet with like-minded graduates and post graduates as well as young professionals in order to learn more about cultural diplomacy by following a week-long intensive programme while experiencing the summer heat in buzzing Berlin. Berlin, having become an international melting pot with an outstanding cultural offer and a compelling history and a place which is sought after by many as a conference and meetings location, did certainly further underline the case for the arts and cultural diplomacy.
Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Aug 11, 2010

Arts Reach National Arts Marketing and Development Conference Fall 2010

Arts Reach Arts Marketing ConferenceHundreds of top arts marketing and development professionals will gather on October 21-24, 2010 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles for the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing and Development Conference Fall 2010. “Empower Yourself and Your Team with the Most Successful, Cost-Effective Ways to Boost Audience & Donor Growth” is the theme of the event.
 

In light of the economic downturn, this conference is designed to help organizations focus their precious resources in the most effective ways to maximize the achievement of their organization’s mission.  The faculty includes leaders from such prestigious organizations as the Center Theatre Group, the Autry National Center of the American West, the Pacific Chorale, and many others. 

Management Topic: Marketing & Communication
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 30, 2010

European Capitals of Culture: Research and Evaluation

Following a very successful launch in Brussels in July 2010, the outcomes of the European Capitals of Culture Policy Group's work have been presented in a final report. The document is the result of the international group – made up of representatives from Liverpool, Stavanger, Turku, Marseille, Essen for the Ruhr and Kosice – working together for one year to produce a research framework, including recommendations for future European Capitals of Culture. 

Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 30, 2010

First International Congress of Cultural Management – New Paradigms

The National University of Mar del Plata and the Argentinean Graduate Cultural Managers Association are glad to inform you about the realization of the First International Congress of Cultural Management – New Paradigms in the context of the Bicentenary, which is going to take place in Mar del Plata on October 21-22-23, 2010.
 
The main aim of this congress is to create a place where ideas, experiences and reflections on cultural management may be exchanged. Moreover, the new sociocultural paradigms of management will be analyzed.
Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 23, 2010