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New short Profile for Germany

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Thanks to our expert Ulrike Blumenreich a first short profile for Germany is now available on the Compendium. It contains updated information on key themes of Germany cultural policy, such as: the support to culture during Covid-19, cultural diversity, sustainability and commemorative culture. Additionally it presents the latest data on public cultural expenditure by level of government in Germany according to the Cultural Finance Report 2020 (published in December 2020). To access the short profile of Germany, please click here.For the complete updated profile of Germany, please click here.

Updated Cultural Policy Profile for Poland

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Thanks to the enormous efforts of our experts Dorota Ilczuk and Anna Karpinska from the Creative Economy Research Center at the SWPS University in Warsaw, an updated cultural policy profile from Poland is now available on the Compendium! It contains updated information on recent cultural policy developments in Poland such as the difficult situation of cultural industries and artists, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak (chapter 2.1, chapter 2.7), the situation in the context of cultural rights (chapter 2.2), aspect of cultural sustainability (chapter 2.8), research on the labor market of artists and creators in Poland (chapter 2.9) and most... read more →

Updated profile Austria

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Important developments and new statistics have been added to the cultural policy profile of Austria, thanks to Anja Lungstraß and Veronika Ratzenböck. The administrative transformation regarding cultural policy was also taken into account, as the division Arts and Culture moved from the Federal Chancellery to the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport in January 2020. Among other things, the profile now reports on Austria's cultural policy objectives for 2020-2024 (chapter 2.1) and includes 2018 data on cultural institutions (1.3.2), public cultural expenditure (7.1.2) and the expenditure per sector (7.1.3). For the complete updated profile of Austria, please click here.... read more →

New profile for Estonia online

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An updated version of the cultural policy profile of Estonia has been added to our database. The former update was from 2014, and we thank our expert author Marko Lõhmus for providing us with all the new information. On some parts, the profile will be updated again in 2021, as the Estonian Ministry of Culture is currently drafting their new principles for cultural policy up to 2030. The newest version of the Estonian profile reports on important developments, regarding for example the Song and Dance Celebration, an Estonian tradition that is included in UNESCO's World List of Intangible Heritage. This... read more →

Cultural Policies in Europe: A Participatory Turn?

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In the new book Cultural Policies in Europe: A Participatory Turn?, several of Europe’s leading specialists in the field seek to clarify the meaning, potentialities and limits of the participatory experience in cultural policies. The authors examine the role of participation not as a concept, but as a process that forms and informs cultural policy. Several themes are addressed in the first part, for example the role participation plays in different national contexts  from both a country specific viewpoint and a comparative perspective, for which the Compendium was used as a resource.  In the second part of the book, contributions focus on... read more →

New profile for Flanders online

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Thanks to the great work of our expert author Simon Leenknegt and his colleagues at the Flanders Arts Institute, the cultural policy profile of Belgium is up to date again. Currently, the profile only includes updated information on Flanders, because the update for Wallonia will follow separately in 2021. The available information on Wallonia can be found in the archived version of the profile (2017). Import developments include the proposed reform of the Arts Decree, the main legislative framework in Flanders and Brussels for supporting the professional arts. One of the issues faced with the current Arts Decree is the... read more →

Belgium Intro

Currently, the country profile of Belgium only includes updated cultural policy information on Flanders. The available information on Wallonia can be found in the archived version of the Belgian profile here.

New profile for Ireland online

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We have published the updated version of the cultural policy profile of Ireland, which replaces the former profile from 2015. Many thanks to our new expert author Paraic Mc Quaid, who wrote us the following about the most important developments in Ireland: The new country profile for Ireland highlights a decade of stagnation of government investment in culture between 2009 and 2019. There has been a very recent return in 2019 to the 2009 levels of government investment in culture. The arts and cultural sector has survived this decade of austerity, but at a severely reduced capacity and at a... read more →

Ireland 1.1

Objectives The main objectives of cultural policies implemented by different levels of the Irish public administration relate to the protection, development and presentation of heritage, culture, Irish language and the arts. There is an emphasis on the promotion of access to culture for all citizens of Ireland. More recently, government strategy documents have emphasised the role of culture in the development of the wellbeing of citizens. The cultural policy in Ireland is strongly in line with main European cultural policy principles of support of creativity, participation in cultural life and cultural rights and broadly in line with cultural rights policies.... read more →

Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector

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In their new publication Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector, UNESCO provides a thorough overview of effective COVID-19-related measures for the cultural sector. The guide is directed at policy makers around the globe and especially focuses on measures for vulnerable workers within the sector. The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends is honoured to have been asked to peer review the guide, that is successful in its intent. It gives special consideration to increasing inequality in the cultural and creative industries and places measure in a context that emphasises the need for transnational collaborations. In the guide, measures... read more →