CultureWatchEurope: Cultural governance observatory
CultureWatchEurope pinpointed developments, difficulties and good practices, so that cultural governance and policy making could be enhanced Europe-wide by:
- generating and reviewing policy standards in areas of concern to governments and society by providing data, information, knowledge, comparative and trend analyses, expertise, advice, and case studies;
- providing online information through joint access to the Council of Europe’s electronic information tools and making rapid consultation of European states in order to compare achievements.
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- contributing to prospective analysis and forward thinking by addressing topical issues and emerging trends, developments and difficulties.
Major events
Major events were held 2009-2012 and CultureWatchEurope Public Fora were held in conjunction with the Annual Compendium Authors meetings in 2013-15.
- 2012 Event "Cultural Access and Participation - from Indicators to Policies for Democracy", Helsinki (Finland), 30 June 2012
- 2011 Think tank "Cultural Governance: from challenges to changes", Bled (Slovenia), 11-12 November 2011
- 2010 Conference "Culture and the policies of change", Brussels (Belgium), 6-7 September 2010
- 2009 Conference "Culture and development 20 years after the fall of communism", Cracow (Poland), 4-6 June 2009
Think pieces
A number of “think pieces” were produced to shed light on topical developments:
- Digitisation and cultural democracy, an (as yet) unfulfilled promise (J. Smiers)
- The Impact of the New Nationalism and Identity Politics on Cultural Policy-making in Europe and Beyond (P. Duelund)
- Culture and Climate Change (O. Gerlach-Hansen)
- New models of governance of culture (K. Pavić)