The current constitutional basis confines federal involvement in cultural policy to a small number of sectors, such as film (funding of film production and distribution, festivals, professional training), nature and heritage conservation, languages, and educational and cultural activities of national interest including foreign affairs. Cantons and municipalities are the major players in cultural promotion, and they set their own priorities and act mostly independently from one another. The cultural policy of the Confederation is mainly based on the interaction of four institutions: Federal Office of Culture (FOC),Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia,Swiss National Library (NL) (organisationally assigned to FOC), andSwiss National... read more →
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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchThe Swedish Constitution (grundlagen) consists of four Fundamental Laws; the Instrument of Government (Regeringsformen), the Act of Succession (Successionsordningen), the Freedom of the Press Act (Tryckfrihetsförordningen), and the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression (Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen). The central provisions on how the state is to be governed are contained in the Instrument of Government. However, all of the fundamental laws except the Act of Succession (regulating the succession of the Swedish monarchy) contain regulations directly relevant to the field of arts and culture. Article 2, Chapter 1 of the Instrument of Government (1974:152) concerns the basic principles of government: Public power shall... read more →
The promotion of Spanish culture abroad is a joint endeavour between the Ministry responsible for cultural affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. At present, the Directorate-General for Cultural Industries and Cooperation, through the Sub Directorate-General for Cultural Cooperation and Promotion Abroad, is responsible for the promotion of the Spanish cultural industries abroad. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation is responsible for foreign cultural activities through its State Secretariat for International Development Cooperation and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean, which is part of the Spanish Agency for International Co-operation and Development... read more →
Slovene museums, archives and libraries are members of various international or foreign organisations and participate in their work. International activities of the Slovene museums, archives and libraries take the form of co-operation in various international projects, membership of international associations, organisation of exhibitions, international conferences and seminars, and development of various forms of professional training. For the public sector, the bilateral agreements on international cultural co-operation with most European countries present an important generator of the development of various forms of professional training and collaboration. All these international activities are a regular part of the operation of the public institutions... read more →
Slovenia is a social and democratic republic with differentiated legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Its cultural system is a complete set of institutions (political and cultural), interest groups (such as political parties- currently seven of them are represented in parliament, trade unions, lobby groups- associations of artists of individual discipline), the relationships between those institutions and the political norms and rules that govern their functions (constitution, election law, general and cultural legislation). The Parliament is composed of the National Assembly that has legislative power and the National Council that represents interest groups of employers, employees, farmers, crafts and trades, artists... read more →
Within the European framework, after political changes the Serbian Ministry immediately decided to participate actively in all international programmes relevant to the region (MOSAIC, CARDS programme, INTERREG III, Regional Programme for cultural and natural heritage in Southeast Europe, and the pilot project of local development Žagubica and Despotovac linked to the revitalisation of the mining village complex Senjski rudnici). The working group of the National Convent about the European Union that deals with negotiation chapters Science and Research (25) and Education and Culture (26) was created in 2015. Twenty civil society organisations have participated in its creation. Chapter 26 was... read more →
Every year, during the summer, the Ministry of Education and Culture organises some training courses targeted at students of secondary schools, the vocational training centre and universities. These students already benefit from the opportunities provided for by Law no. 21/2004 on the right to study, such as study allowances, study allowances based on merit, contributions for books, trust based loans, grants and reduced prices for transport. Therefore, the above-mentioned courses represent another application of the Law and are divided up into three areas. One of these areas concerns the cultural sector and provides for the learning of foreign languages in... read more →
The State Museum of San Marino was established in the second half of the 19th century, thanks to a series of donations from all over the world. In this context, the Museum did not emerge as a result of a clear culture strategy, but rather an assembled collected of works donated irrespective of their origin, history and quality. With the public administration reform in 1983, the State Museum became autonomous. Since then, and until 2001, almost all works were stored in places not accessible to the public and to researchers. On 18 March 2001, the Museum was reopened to the... read more →
The establishment of a public radio and television broadcasting company was a major historical and diplomatic event. In 1990, San Marino ratified a cooperation agreement with Italy, thus regaining its independence and the right to make its voice heard also through these means; a prerogative which it had renounced in 1953. San Marino RTV, the public company responsible for the Republic's radio and television services, was established in 1991. San Marino RTV is the exclusive provider of the public radio and television broadcasting service. Among its transmissions, information programmes play a leading role, although there is enough space for others... read more →
There is no main cultural policy document addressing national minority groups and this issue is not listed as a policy priority in the government's current list of cultural policy priorities, as there are only a few national minority groups. The number of foreigners in San Marino is not enough to justify a specific legislation for the recognition and protection of minorities. Nevertheless, the few cultural minorities which do live on the territory enjoy full respect in conformity with the principles stipulated by the 1974 "Declaration on the Citizens' Rights" and by the following laws, which supplemented and partially amended this... read more →