2003-01-23

The contents of this publication are results from the action-research program INCLUDE carried out in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The INCLUDE Project was designed by the Interarts Foundation in the framework of the Leonardo Da Vinci Programme (Formerly DG XXI: Education and Youth), financed by the European Commission. The main objectives of the INCLUDE project have been to analyse and evaluate cultural policies, projects, programmes and methodologies concerning employment creation within the cultural sector in order to propose a curriculum design for cultural managers as local development agents. The project was carried out in three phases.
The first phase was devoted to the analysis of European local and regional cultural policies through the study of the data gathered and collated in the FACTUS data base. The second phase included the expansion of this action-research through the study of the conclusion of the INCLUDE Survey in collaboration with 13 European cultural training and education centres. The third phase aimed at raising new interest within the training communities to observe whether the objectives had been accomplished, to examine the obtained results and to explore some future perspectives in their field of competence. One of the main objectives of the INCLUDE Project was to provide a curriculum design built specifically for the cultural management training in order to recognize the role of the Cultural Manager as key agent for local development.
The curriculum design introduced in this edition is one of the first of its kind and has been already successfully implemented in training.