ConnectCP and Compendium Partnership

IFACCA, 22 August 2007

ConnectCP and the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe have come to an agreement to provide hyperlinks to full expert profiles in ConnectCP for the national authors of the Compendium. The Compendium is a joint venture between the Council of Europe and ERICarts and is now in its 8th edition. It is an expanding and permanently updated Europe-wide information and monitoring system on cultural policies, instruments, debates and trends. The information and data presented online helps to inform decision-making processes, to conduct comparative policy research and analyses, to disseminate good practice examples (e.g. in the area of intercultural dialogue) and to maintain data collections. The Compendium is realized with a community of independent national cultural policy researchers including:
Stefan Çapaliku, Albania
Veronika Ratzenböck, Austria
Yashar Huseynli, Azerbaijan
Nina Obuljen, Croatia
Peter Duelund, Denmark
Mikko Lagerspetz, Estonia
Jean-Cédric Delvainquière, France
Costis Dallas, Greece
Péter Inkei, Hungary
Marian Fitzgibbon, Ireland
Carla Bodo, Italy
Simona Bodo, Italy
Viktoras Liutkus, Lithuania
Zlatko Teodosievski, FYR Macedonia
Mario Azzopardi, Malta
Valeria Grosu, Moldova
Vladimír Bína, The Netherlands
Cas Smithuijsen, The Netherlands
Per Mangset, Norway
Dorota Ilczuk, Poland
Delia Mucica, Romania
Milena Dragićević Šešić, Serbia
Ana Villarroya, Spain
Christoph Weckerle, Switzerland
Oleksandr Butsenko, Ukraine
Rod Fisher, United Kingdom
The Compendium editors from ERICarts (Andreas Wiesand, Executive Director of ERICarts and Danielle Cliche, ERICarts research officer) and from the Council of Europe (Kathrin Merkle, Head of the Cultural Policy, Diversity and Dialogue Division and Gesa Buttner, Information manager) are particularly pleased with the collaboration: 'The ConnectCP database gives a worldwide and direct overview of cultural policy experts and allows a better exchange of knowledge and information in this field. The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, an information and monitoring system of more than 40 European countries, depends on such interaction and networking of cultural policy researchers. Given that the Compendium is targeted to a broad audience - of policy makers and administrators, arts institutions and networks, researchers and documentation professionals, journalists and students - we are very interested in cooperating with ConnectCP.' The networking of the Compendium's authors in the world of cultural policy research will enhance the circulation of information which eventually adds to the validation and thus to the quality of the Compendium country profiles. This is yet another step twoards developing the Compendium to a worldwide knowledge space in cultural policies.
IFACCA is the joint founder of ConnectCP and is now its managing partner. 

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