Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe

Culture, Heritage and Diversity

CULTURAL HERITAGE
Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
European Heritage Days
Values for Society
Young People and Heritage
TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE
Spatial planning (CEMAT)
Landscape (ELC)

The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe is a unique reference work on European cultural policies and an online information and monitoring system available at http://www.culturalpolicies.net/. The system's scope is constantly being expanded to cover newly emerging cultural policy challenges, debates and priorities. It is regularly updated and each year a new edition of the Compendium system is published.

The Compendium was initiated by the Council of Europe as a joint venture with the ERICarts Institute in 1998. It is realised in partnership with national governments and a network of leading European cultural policy experts.

Reporting on cultural policies

The Compendium addresses issues of priority and current challenges to policy concerning:

cultural rights and ethics
cultural diversity
intercultural dialogue
the role of different partners in a changing system of governance
support to creativity
participation in cultural life
economic, legal and educational dimensions of cultural policies
international cultural co-operation.

The system monitors the implementation and introduction of cultural legislation and policies, as well as cultural practices. It provides numerous comparative tables as well as statistics and thematic spaces.

The Compendium project serves as a key tool of the Organisation’s information platform on culture, heritage and media developments in Europe (CultureWatchEurope).

Serving the cultural policy community

The Compendium is targeted to reach a broad range of policy makers and administrators, cultural institutions and networks, researchers and documentation professionals, journalists and students. Available online information and data serves to inform decision-making processes, comparative policy research and analyses, and the exchange of good practice models. Compendium users come from all over the world. The system’s success has inspired the creation of similar information systems in other world regions and efforts at creating a world-wide cultural policy database.

Compendium users come from all over the world. The system’s success has inspired the creation of similar information systems in other world regions and the creation of a world wide cultural policy database": http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/index.php.