Conference Speakers May 3 and 4
Mark Chung, Managing Director of Freibank Music Publishing and Marketing GmbH, Hamburg
Anna Somers Cocks, Founder of The ArtNewsPaper, Milano / Paris
Simon Ellis, UNESCO Institute Statistics, Montreal
Lorraine Fannin, Director of Publishing Scotland, Edinburgh
Joachim Geppert, MKW Economic Research, Saarbrucken
Dr. István Hiller, Hungarian Minister for Education and Culture
Philippe Kern, Kern European Affairs (Presentation)
Newsletter "The Economy of Culture in Europe - A strategy for a creative Europe" (PDF, english)
Dr. Hans-Georg Knopp, Secretary General of the Goethe Institute, Munich
Petra Nilsson-Andersen, Senior Adviser at Nordic Innovation Centre, Oslo
Hans-Joachim Otto, Chairman of the Culture and Media Committee, German Bundestag
Dr. Andy C. Pratt, Reader in Urban Cultural Economy/Director of Urban Research Centre, London School of Economics
Michael Söndermann, President of the German Council for Cultural Statistics, Bonn
Anna Stępniewska, Project Co-ordinator, Pro Cultura Foundation, Warsaw
Gilles Tinayre, Compositeur, Président de l’Union des Compositeurs de Musiques de Films (UCMF)
May 3 - Evening Event
Opening Speech: Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, MdEP
Volkmar Strauch, Undersecretary of State, Senate for Economy, Technology and Women, Berlin
May 4 - Panels
Panel 2: Coherent policy from the perspective of cities in Europe
Example: The InterReg Programme -Economic Clusters for Cultural Enterprises (ECCE)
Jean-Louis Bonnin and Claire Newman, Cultural Advisor to the Mayor of Nantes/ECCE Project Coordinator, Nantes Métropole
Keith Evans, Chief Executive and General Manager of CIDA (Creative Industries Development Agency), Huddersfield
Marijn van Thiel MA and Giep Hagoort, Programme Manager CMKBU, Utrecht / Professor for Art and Economics at Utrecht School of the Arts
Panel 4: Fashion Industry
Signe Kivi (speach), Director of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Presentation
Panel 5: Architecture
Bernardo Pizarro Miranda, Head of Europan Portugal, Lisbon
Panel 6: European Qualification for Players of the Creative Economy
Marice Cumber, Ownit, London
Katalin Hegedüs (speach), Hungarian Institute for Culture and Arts, Budapest, Presentation
Kimmo Hyyppä, ARSNET, Turku
Gabriela Tudor, Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia, Bucharest