This meeting is the culmination of a series of meetings that have been held with a view to promoting the process of European construction and citizen integration that was started on 26th and 27th November 2004, at a conference held in Berlin on the subject of European cultural policy. The following steps were the meetings in Paris (2nd and 3rd May 2005) and Budapest (17th-19th November last). These conferences have highlighted the importance of the role of culture in building a new Europe.

What is the value of the idea that makes you dream...that makes you laugh...that makes you cry? To have an idea...that makes you believe in ones idea...fighting for it...What is it worth to live for an idea? Ones ideas...help others to have new ideas... What is the value of the liberty to take decision? A societys value is made by their ideas... what would maintain if they got stolen?

This is the main slogan of the new educational campaign Save your countrys culture against piracy promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and supported by the Spanish governments subsidy of 1 Mio. Euro.

Synaxis Baltica is a student network for students in the field of arts and cultural management. The network has 11 university/university college members. The member institutions arrange a "summer academy", in turn each year.
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More than is usually acknowledged, higher education and the arts relate to and profoundly reinforce each other. The two sectors bear responsibility for education, creativity, and knowledge-building; they significantly shape national values; they capture society's movements. Put together, the academy and the arts achieve more than either can alone.

The aim of the debate under the specific title New cultural centres in Europe, is to establish, within a framework of the 5th Private initiative and the public sector in cultural management conference, a forum on the value and importance of cultural centres in the modern world.

The Need for a New Policy Stance and Platform for Europe

This paper examines some implications for cultural policy in the context of globalisation of trade and convergence of technologies. Issues are specifically examined in the aftermath of the inconclusive World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle in 1999. The paper argues for the relevance of Australian experiences in the formulation of a cultural response and cites examples which may be relevant to Europe and elsewhere. It asserts that the concepts of "creative infrastructure" and "communications platform" offer a particularly effective formulation of the necessary resource base.

The DCMS is asking people across the UK to help them decide:

- what share of Lottery money each of the five good causes should get, as a percentage, from 2009 onwards;
- what the policy should be governing how Lottery money should be spent for each cause.

In July 2004 Palmer/Rae Associates completed a six-month study for the European Commission that covers the 29 cities designated European Capital of Culture or Cultural Month from 1995 to 2004 and that also looks at the long-term legacies of the previous years.

This article is based on a survey of 52 interim directors in nonprofit museums in the United States. Altogether, these museums reflect a wide diversity of organizations - visual arts, history, science centers, and childrens museums - and different budget sizes, from those with budgets under $100,000 to those with multi-million dollar operations.

The National History Museum of Santiago de Chile, which still lacks of international popularity and sufficient financial support, initiates a new innovative strategy of cultural marketing with the purpose of raising funds and spreading the national patrimony...

Three countries - the United Kingdom, United States and China - produced 40 percent of the worlds cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than four percent according to a new report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

For 2005-06, the Centre for Cultural Policy Research is holding a series of seminars that take as their starting point the question What is creative about creative industries? and explore the relationship between the artist, the cultural organisation, the creative community, government and commerce.
Our programme of three half-day seminars covers

Public service broadcasting and culture
Women and the creative industries
Cultural policy for the creative industries

In 2005, excluding the last weeks of the year, the number of Spanish cinema audience increased to the previous year from 19.282.967 to 19.442.669 spectators, according to the provisional annual report of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Feature Workshop - New York City, Summer 2006

This summer, engage in a lively and important discussion at one of the foremost educational institutions in the world. Acquire knowledge for career advancement, professional development and personal enrichment.

The Administration of The National Cultural Found Romania launched Tuesday, 15 November 2005, a pilot round of financing for cultural projects.

"Purpose" is the only e-magazine in Poland devoted to entrepreneurship in culture. Currently the magazine is cooperating in a UE project on "jobs in culture sector", within which it will be showing young people in Poland that it is possible to find jobs and professional fulfilment in culture.

The paper will only address a limited part of the complexity of issues related to the academic training in cultural management regarded from a comparative, European perspective. Its aim its to highlight a number of key topics of concern and offer a broad perspective to further specialized debate.

Europa Nostra, the pan-European federation for heritage, is organising a major European Cultural Heritage Forum on 7 December in Brussels, "Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe" with the cooperation of the European Economic and Social Committee.

Zagreb hosted on November 11-13 and 18-19, in the framework of the Zagreb - Cultural Capital of Europe 3000 (ZKC3000) platform, a series of public discussions and performances on the topic "what kind of institutions do we need?" initiated by the Center for Drama Art (CDU).

Interview by Patricia Dewey (Arts Management Network Correspondent) with Raymond T. Grant, Artistic Director of the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival, Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Olympic Winter Games of 2002