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Since regaining independence, Georgia has been active in working with international organizations and is a member of the UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe, European Union, World Tourism Organization, ICCROM, and GUAM. Georgia has signed various agreements in the sphere of culture with EU countries, CIS countries (Commonwealth of Independent States), USA, China, Israel, India, etc.  (100 countries). The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia (in all its modifications) has developed and implemented bilateral and multilateral foreign cultural policies. In the Culture Strategy 2025 the seventh strategic goal is "Internationalization of Culture”. 7.1. Objective: The internationalization of the cultural... read more →

Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia and other ministries is determined by their participation in public cultural development. Co-operation is regulated under the Law on Structure and Procedures of Executive Power. The ministries responsible for some aspects of regulation / management of culture are: The Ministry of Education and Science is responsible for the implementation of reforms in higher, vocational and secondary education, including legislative reform, and accordingly is responsible for education policies. The Ministry also implements the state policy on the official Georgian language. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the development and implementation... read more →

Georgia is a unitary parliamentary republic. On October 15, 2010, a new Constitution of Georgia was adopted, which changed the system from a presidential state model to a mixed parliamentary-presidential model. In March 2018, amendments were passed approving the final transition to a parliamentary republic. The system of administration includes the following branches of authority: Parliament – the legislative power; the parliamentary committee for culture (established in 2020 after the Parliamentary Elections) is responsible for legislation and supervision of the executive power (Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia) National government – the executive power; Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia (restored under... read more →

The principles of democratization and decentralization of culture, support for cultural diversity and preservation of the national identity, which forms the basis of contemporary cultural policy, trace back to the main objectives of the cultural sphere of the First Republic of Georgia (1918-1921). In the process of regaining independence in the 1990s, Georgia declared the continuity of the ideas of the First Republic. The first attempts at a theoretical generalization of the cultural practices of 1991-2001 and the adoption of a homogenous cultural policy document were made in 2001.  After a strongly centralized cultural management system (2003-2011), with local interventionist... read more →

A very large number of associations and other non-governmental organisations operate in the field of arts and culture in France. For instance the coordination of culture and communication federations and associations (Cofac: http://www.cofac.asso.fr) federates more than 40 000 cultural associations. The federal union of cultural structures (Ufisc : http://www.ufisc.org) gathers federations and unions from the performing arts sector. Even though it is not easy to develop statistics on the associative scene because of its complexity and its diversity, various studies illustrate certain trends: Associations culturelles & emploi. Premier panorama, 2007 : http://www.opale.asso.fr/IMG/article_PDF/Premier-panorama-statistique-sur-les-associations_a78.pdf;rapport La France associative en mouvement, 10ème édition 2012 : http://www.recherches-solidarites.org;étude Repères sur... read more →

Amateur arts and folk culture A survey from 1996 (available in Olivier Donnat, Les Pratiques culturelles des Français Enquête 1997, La Documentation française/Ministère de la Culture: http://www.pratiquesculturelles.culture.gouv.fr ) showed that half of the French people aged 15 years and older had exercised an amateur artistic practice in their life, and that half of them (23% of the total) continued to practice. For young people from 15 to 24 years old, these proportions rose respectively to two thirds and to half. Furthermore, the younger the amateurs were, the more they practiced two or more artistic activities. According to a 2008 survey... read more →

The out-of-school arts and cultural education is mainly conducted within the framework of public academies (conservatoires) that are subsidised by territorial authorities, in partnership with the State departments, mainly the Ministry of Culture, which is in charge of the educational supervision of these establishments. The conservatoires run music courses, while many also run courses in dance and drama. The status of these academies can be diverse. Since the law of decentralisation of 1 August 2004, the State wished to harmonise the classification of the different establishments, according to their audiences and their activities. In 2013 there are: 298 municipal or... read more →

Besides, about 175 public and private institutions propose, in 2010-2011, superior technical diplomas in many specialities of applied and decorative arts and crafts: interior design, decorative arts, ceramic arts and textiles, graphic arts and broadcasting technologies, etc.

The higher arts and culture education is characterised by its institutional diversity, and is conducted by different private and public institutions and establishments. The Ministry of Culture is responsible for education in the fields of architecture, heritage, visual arts, performing arts, cinema and broadcasting. In certain domains, such as archaeology, books or arts management and administration for example, courses are held at universities. Private schools run courses in graphic arts, interior design, technical occupations of the performing arts, cinema and broadcasting, press, video games and multimedia. In 2009, more than 600 establishments run higher education curricula in visual arts, theatre,... read more →