The two-year Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of the Aegean on cultural informatics is for young researchers, ideally MA or MSc graduates (up to 4 years since their graduation), maybe PhD candidates at any stage of their research, but NOT PhD degree holders, who are from any EU country (except Greece, as this is funded by a grant which promotes the mobility of researchers).

President Bush's 2007 budget request includes some bad news for community arts, says Americans for the Arts. It requests level funding for the NEA at $124.4 million and for the NEH at $141 million.

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KUNCI cultural studies center, Kedai Kebun Forum, Cemeti Art Foundation, and the Graduate Program in Religious and Cultural Studies (IRB) Sanata Dharma University are going to hold a public lecture and a discussion series entitled The Possibilities of Cultural Movement Today. The speakers of the public lecture and discussion series are Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kuan-Hsing Chen and Hilmar Farid.

art-e-conomy (transitional economics and art theory and practice of contemporary global production) is an international collaborative research and educational project, initiated with an attempt to re-think the ideas behind the economy of art and the status of art market in the post-socialist Eastern European situation.

Turkey is now set to participate in the Culture 2000 programme. This follows the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding on Turkey's participation in the Culture 2000 programme in 2006 by Mr van der Pas, Director General of the Directorate General for Education and Culture, and His Excellency, Oguz Demilralp, Turkish Ambassador to the European Union. The Memorandum should enter into force by the end of 2005.

The Spanish Ministry of Culture presented a new Action Plan with the aim to improve the infrastructure of the whole film sector in Spain: i.e. development, production, distribution and exhibition.

FORTE is a project funded under the Joint Actions strand of the European Commissions Socrates, Leonardo and Youth programmes. It focuses on the common ground among youth, education, and culture, as a basis for youth participation and development.

The Annual Report 2005 has been presented yesterday by the current Spanish Minister of Culture, Carmen Calvo, which is based on annual statistics in the period from 2000 until 2004, and on a survey of cultural consumer habits realized in 2003.

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.

The current newsletter issue has a special focus on the arts management resources and developments in the three Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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...