| 4/27/2009: Germany to strengthen its cultural policies abroad | |
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From April 18th to 26th Berlin hosted the “Foreign Cultural Policy Days” [Tage der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik] organised by the German Federal Foreign Office together with its main partners in the fiel...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/6/2009: Working on making arts and culture a priority of national and European policies | |
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Arts and culture can play key roles in Europe‘s economic recovery – politicians, EU officials and arts experts attending the Prague Forum for Creative Europe on March 26th and 27th 2009 agreed. The co...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/3/2009: Investing in education for the sake of local economy | |
| Two weeks ago a new £ 4.4 million campus officially opened in the Thames Gateway area, East of London: the Thurrock Learning Campus, which courses are geared to provide the skills needed by the local ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/10/2009: Germany launches new cultural voluntary service | |
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This week the German Federal Foreign Office and the German UNESCO Commission will present a new voluntary service: kulturweit. This international voluntary program enables young people aged between 18...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/19/2009: Happy New Year to arts and culture | |
| During his visit to Nîmes last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy addressed his best wishes for the New Year to the arts and cultural world. He pointed out his hope to see the National Assembly pas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/29/2008: The art of developing games | |
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More and more artists and humanists find the games industry to be a new field of activity for them. According to Olaf Zimmermann, president of the German Arts Council, sophisticated games highly depen...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/8/2008: Museums need managers, says Portuguese Minister of Culture | |
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The Portuguese Minister of Culture, José António Pinto Ribeiro, said that the Ministry of Culture is open to the discussion of all types of models for the management of the museums, whether they are p...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/5/2008: Europeana – Europe’s digital library | |
| Europe has been busy building up its digital library Europeana since summer 2006. In March 2007 a first version was put online during the Paris Book Fair Salon du Livre. On this occasion the French Na...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/2/2008: 50 million Euros for music teaching in Portugal | |
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The Portuguese Ministry of Culture will sign 78 contracts of sponsorship of music schools, academies and conservatories in the country, after having approved the financing applications.
The Lisbon ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/21/2008: New report on the impact of creative degree programs on Paris economy | |
| The Paris Chamber of Industry and Commerce recently published a report on the degree courses in “Creation- Fashion-Design” in Paris and its region. The study analyses the potential contribution of des...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/6/2008: Promoting new training tools in arts management | |
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On October 17th, in the framework of the Annual Conference of ENCATC (the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres), will be launched the publication “Enabling the Creators: arts a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/30/2008: ENCATC Annual Conference focuses on cultural diversity | |
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The 16th ENCATC Annual Conference "Intercultural dialogue and project management: new training programs in a context of major challenges" will be taking place in Lyon from October 15th to 18th 2008.
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| 9/5/2008: Portugal has its first Degree and Master in Culture Sciences | |
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A Degree and a Master in Culture Sciences, with a specialization in Artistic Culture will open this year (2008/2009), for the first time in Portugal, at the Decorative Art Upper School, in Lisbon.
Th...... Read Announcement... |
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| 8/27/2008: FIAS 2008 – Benin’s International Festival of Arts and Spectacles | |
| From September 3rd to 7th Benin will be hosting the FIAS 2008, the Festival International des Arts et Spectacles [International Festival of arts and spectacles]. Every year people involved in African ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 8/18/2008: UK: Universities claim more money for creative degree courses | |
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In reaction to the criticism passed on creative degree courses qualified as “Mickey Mouse” subjects, Les Ebdon, head of Bedfordshire University and chairman of Million+, a grouping of 28 newer univers...... Read Announcement... |
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