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It is with great anticipation that we announce today that Arts Council Malta will host the next International Cultural Policy Conference 2023 in Malta. Together, we invite the cultural policy community to engage in the central debate on "Right to Culture" on October 5. This will be followed on October 6 by the 6th Assembly of the Compendium Association as a meeting point for the Compendium community itself. After the success of the last conference in Bucharest, we look forward to more fruitful discussions and exchanges - this time with a stronger focus on interactive formats. More information will follow...
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Is freedom of artistic expression in danger? According to Karima Bennoune (then UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights) in her Report of 25 July 2018, the free "exercise of cultural...
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A first short cultural policy profile for Montenegro is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks go out to our new Montenegrin expert Nataša Kraljević. Below you can see a few highlights of the cultural policy developments in Montenegro: The Ministry of Culture and Media was again re-established as an independent ministry in 2022 following heavy criticism. A Commission has been formed to undertake a professional review in the field of conservation, museum, library, and archive activities. Despite the Law on Culture stating that 2.5 percent of the state budget should be allocated to culture, the draft budgets...
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As one of the first European countries, Germany's minister of culture Claudia Roth has actively recognised the damaging effects of the energy crisis on the cultural sector. To ensure the continuity of the sector's work, the Bundesregierung has established a new fund of over 1 billion euros. In the wake of the dissolution of other special funds to combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, German cultural practitioners feared that national budget cuts would make the sector more vulnerable to the effects of the coming crises. Now it seems that these fears were to some extent unfounded. Additionally,...
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A short cultural policy profile for the North Macedonia is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks go out to our North Macedonian expert Zlatko Teodosievski. Below you can see a few highlights of the cultural policy developments in North Macedonia: Due to the economic and energetic crisis, the state budget was rebalanced in May 2022 and the cultural budget was cut for over 30% (1.2 million EUR). The main challenges in national cultural policy still are the “forgotten” cultural reforms of the key priorities underlined in the National Strategy 2018-2022 and it’s Action Plan. Even a superficial...
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A short cultural policy profile for Hungary is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks go out to our Hungarian expert Péter Inkei. Below you can see a few highlights of the cultural policy developments in Hungary: A law that specifies the changes due to the overhaul of the governmental setup (Act XXIV/2022) contains a detailed specification of the terms and constituents of cultural diplomacy. With this, cultural diplomacy submerges from the legislative vacuum of the preceding few years, and its structure is legally established. Nevertheless, no high-level document specifies its mission and strategic goals. The national budget...
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Since 15th June 2022, Luxembourg has a code of conduct for cultural structures in force. The Minister for Culture Sam Tanson recalled that these are recommendations, and that this code must not only define the relationship between the Ministry and the cultural structure, but also maintain the exchanges of all the actors involved in the sector as well as create or reinforce a relationship of trust between artists, cultural organizations and the public. It is essential to underline that this document guarantees the artistic and intellectual independence of the adhering cultural institutions and structures. More information can be found on...
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The recently updated Covid-19 report for Slovakia gives an overview of the major developments regarding the impact of the pandemic crisis on the cultural sector from March 2020 to today. This update contains a detailed timeline of the policy and financial measures taken against the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector. This retrospective allows a complete overview of the development of the cultural sector - also in relation to the various decisions and measures taken by the government. Please find all the available country reports here or via our menu.
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The Covid-19 pandemic affected economies worldwide, and the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) were hit especially hard. Like most countries, Slovakia responded with a set of financial and non-financial relief measures. The total amounts paid out are referenced where data is available. Financial Measures 1.1 General "First Aid“ The largest horizontal job retention programme was revised twice (First...
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Summary Crises as current descriptions of the state of our society formed the framework of this year's international cultural policy conference of the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends. The international monitoring system for cultural policy together with the Romanian National Institute for Cultural Research and Training as host, organised the conference "Culture & Cultural Policies in Times of Crises. Effects, Roles and Transition" in Bucharest on the 30th of June 2022. More than 120 participants from over 30 European countries from cultural policy research and cultural policy, but also from cultural practice, accepted the invitation to discuss this relevant...
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