There are no specific policies that promote the design and creative services in Croatia. Within the public call for ‘Entrepreneurship in Cultural and Creative Industries’ published yearly by the Ministry of Culture and Media, workers in these fields as well are eligible to apply for support for their projects (chapter 3.5.1). The announced future calls for support of cultural and creative sectors that will be funded through the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience announced for 2023 will also include the design and creative services. There were several initiatives for creating the strategy of design, but so far there are... read more →
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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchThere is no specific strategy to promote the music industry in Croatia but there are several policy instruments oriented towards developing music creativity and music production in general. These instruments are present through the yearly calls for public needs in culture published by the Ministry of Culture and Media where the support for production and distribution of (primarily) classical music is offered, while additional minor support for rock music is available as well. In the last couple of years, a number of initiatives have been active that advocated for more support to be given to the new types of popular... read more →
The first National Programme of the Development of Audio-visual Activities (2010-2014) was adopted by the Croatian Audiovisual Council of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and approved by the (then) Ministry of Culture in October 2010. In 2012, the results of the first two years of the implementation of the Strategic Programme were presented: positive changes occurred in four of the five strategic goals – audiovisual legislation, increased number of produced films, increased number of viewers of Croatian films, and an increase in digitalisation of independent cinemas and audiovisual (heritage) content. The second National Programme of the Development of Audio-visual Activities (2017-2021)... read more →
The policy instruments for the book industry are engrained within the yearly public calls of the Ministry of Culture and Media, which are oriented to supporting programmes and projects in book production, distribution and consumption. The Ministry also opens yearly public calls oriented to enhancing literary creativity in the forms of stipends for writers, translators as well as financial stimulation in the form of grants for authors of lauded published works in literature as well as translation grants of Croatian authors by foreign publishers. It also secures funding so that the public lending rights for authors (including writers, translators and... read more →
There is no specific national strategy for visual arts and crafts in Croatia. The instruments related to this sector on the national level are based on the yearly public calls for public needs in culture through three major measures of financing: the first measure is dedicated to projects and programmes related to the promotion of contemporary visual creativity, promotion and protection of freedom of visual action, support for artistic events, preservation of national artistic heritage and cultural diversity, and encouragement of the development and promotion of visual arts; while the second measure relates to monographs in the visual arts. The... read more →
There is no specific national strategy for performing arts in Croatia. The instruments related to this sector are based on the yearly public calls for public needs in culture through three streams of financing: funding for professional theatres, funding for amateur theatre activities and funding for programmes in contemporary dance and movement. The Cultural Council for Theatre and Performing Arts is a consultative body to the Minister of Culture and Media in connection to performing arts activities. A special measure for encouraging Croatian drama and theatre creativity is the 'Marin Držić' Award given by the Ministry of Culture and Media... read more →
Policy instruments that financially support archive and library activities are based on the yearly public calls for public needs in culture; measures for the support of library activities (development of projects, programmes and promotions) and for the support of programme activities in the archive sector. The Croatian Library Council and Croatian Archive Council are advisory bodies to the ministry responsible for cultural affairs that perform professional and other activities related to library and archives in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Libraries and Library Activity and the Law on Archival Materials and Archives. The Law on Archival Materials... read more →
The last available report that paid special emphasis to cultural life of persons with disabilities was created in 2014. As stressed in the report of the Ombudsperson for Persons with Disabilities in 2014, despite a number of examples of rich and diverse cultural expression of many children and persons with disabilities, their artistic endeavours are not sufficiently supported in general nor are their activities sufficiently present in the media. Specific strategies to support people with disabilities as professionals in the cultural labour market are lacking as well as general policies related to this sector. Although the state finances and supports... read more →
The main measure related to supporting artistic production is defined through providing the social security measures for freelance artists. In comparison with other workers they have the right to retirement and disability insurance and to health insurance according to relevant legislation (see chapter 4.1.3). The status of independent artist entitled to support from the budget remains one of the burning issues in Croatia where an overall reform of the system is needed. This has continued to be a hot issue of discussion and the changes in the legislation were announced several times in the last couple of years but are... read more →
In Italy, for the most part, higher arts education is part of the system of AFAM - Alta Formazione Artistica Musicale e Coreutica (Higher Education in Music and Dance) under Law 508 of December 1999, which reformed the sector of arts education, framing it as “higher education at tertiary level and of specialist nature”, and subdividing it into three cycles of education, equivalent to those of university education, by incorporating the guidelines defined by the Bologna Process. Data in the AFAM system are systematically collected through an annual statistical census-like survey, carried out in all AFAM Institutions. The survey is... read more →