January 2012
1.8 million young people have free entry to cultural services
Since 2010, 1.8 million young people have availed of the free entry to 19 cultural centres. This has resulted in the increase of paying visitors, 24% more in 2010 and 15.5% more in 2011. more >
The Ministry funds788 arts and cultural education projects during school year 2011/12
The Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture will dedicate 500,000€ per year for art education programs in state schools. The funding will support 788 arts projects in schools around Austria. more >
The Ministry improves the condition of self-employed artists through new regulation
From 1 January 2012 a new regulation to increase the annual fee subsidy under the Social Security Act of Artists improves the condition of self-employed artists by raising the grant to 1560 € with extended health and accident insurance. This represents an increase of 52%. more >
November 2011
EU structural funding supports arts and cultural projects in Austria
Current study demonstrates the importance of EU regional programs for the promotion of culture in Austriamore >
October 2011
Vielfalt Kultur: Einladung zur Vorstellung von Praxisbeispielen
The Austrian Commission for UNESCO, supported by the BMUKK, invites individuals, networks, institutions and organisations from various fields to present projects and initiatives that contribute to protecting and promoting the diversity of cultural expressions. The introduced examples are included in a collection of best practices and a report to UNESCO. more >
January 2010
Solutions for the mobility of visual artists in Europe
The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) organised a meeting of European experts on ‘Mobility in the Visual Arts Sector in Europe’ in Linz, Austria in December 2009. Judith Staines gives her appraisal of the meeting. more >
March 2009
Creative industries – winners from the Austrian tax reform
According to creative wirtschaft austria (cwa), the special interest organisation of the Austrian creative industries, the country’s 30.000 creative businesses will benefit from the new fiscal reform coming into effect in April and bringing tax relief to all jobholders with retroactive effect from January 1st on. more >
February 2009
Vilnius and Linz open their year as European Capitals of Culture 2009
The cities of Vilnius (Lithuania) and Linz (Austria) have held the opening events of their annual programme as European Capitals of Culture. The two cities share the title in 2009 although support very distinct programmes of activities. more >
December 2008
Linz – the European Capital of Culture in 2009 wants to invite guests from all parts of Europe for a new year celebration
Linz is going to celebrate the start of its European mission with three days of festivities in the company of its visitors from near and far. During 3 days citizens and visitors of Linz will have the opportunity to watch plenty of music shows, performances and other events. more >
Working Group on Synergies between Culture and Education set up
On 22 September, the working group “Synergies between culture and education” gathering together representatives from EU Members States was officially set up. more >
October 2008
Eurydice compiles Information about Arts and Cultural Education in EU Member States
The Information Network on Education in Europe Eurydice has decided to launch a comparative study on arts and cultural education in collaboration with the European Network of Civil Servants representing ministries of education and culture. more >
May 2008
EFAH becomes Culture Action Europe
The European Forum on Arts and Heritage (EFAH) is changing its name to Culture Action Europe and launching a new website.
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March 2008
What Education Can Learn from the Arts
Educult's Michael Wimmer contemplates Elliot W. Eisner’s 'The Arts and the Creation of Mind'. more >
February 2008
Culture minister wants more funding for contemporary arts
Culture Minister Claudia Schmied has called for more money for film and other contemporary arts in Austria. more >
November 2007
Bulgarian and Austrian Culture Ministers meet
Bulgaria's Culture Minister and Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Arts and Culture have met in Vienna to discuss bilateral cultural relations. more >
July 2006
ICCPR 2006 registration deadline
Registrations for the 4th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (Vienna, Austria, 12-16 July), close on 6 July. more >
May 2004
New study surveys creative industries in Vienna
A major cultural research institute in Austria has published a comprehensive study into the economic potential of creative industries in Vienna. more >
March 2004
Museum Opens With Masterpieces Saved From The Nazis
Vienna, a city already rich with some 160 museums, gets a new one dedicated to masterpieces of European art that were rescued from the Nazis and kept in warehouses in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein until now. more >
January 2004
Archives congress to break new ground
The major event of the global archiving community; the International Congress on Archives; will be held in Vienna this August. Participants will have their eyes focused on the future, with 'state of the art' firmly on the agenda. more >
August 2002
New direction for Salzburg Festival
The new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival Peter Ruzicka, has made some changes to the renowned summer event which are a far cry from the vision of his feisty predecessor, Gerard Mortier. more >
December 2012
International Conference "Performing Arts Management Today"
"Performing Arts Management Today" is the professional conference open to arts managers, arts administrators, arts management educators and consultants, arts entrepreneurs, fundraisers, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts administration and training. more >
November 2012
12th ELIA Biennial Conference
The 12th ELIA Biennial will take place on 8-10 November 2012 in Vienna, Austria, hosted by the University of Applied Arts (Die Angewandte). more >
October 2012
Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders
The first annual Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders will bring together fifty dynamic young cultural leaders from around the world at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria for an intensive leadership development program. The Salzburg Global Seminar and National Arts Strategies, a non-profit organization specializing in leadership development for the cultural sector, are launching this new series which will provide a unique learning opportunity for “next generation” cultural leaders (25-35 yrs.) from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. more >
April 2012
Public and Private Cultural Exchange-Based Diplomacy: New Models for the 21st Century
At the onset of the 21st century, cultural diplomacy is encountering new challenges as policymakers,
artists, and cultural leaders adapt to a rapidly changing global environment.
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December 2011
Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations:
The conference is inviting fundraisers, arts managers, arts consultants, arts entrepreneurs, grant writing consultants, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world. more >
"Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations: Strategies in the Changing World"
"Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations: Strategies in the Changing World" is the professional conference inviting fundraisers, arts managers, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world. more >
July 2010
Audiences: keeping the old, finding the new
Communicating the Museum conference will be hosted in the prestigious venues of the Imperial capital: the Kunshistoriches Museum. This 10th anniversary conference will review the fundamentals of communication with leading experts. more >
April 2010
Performing Arts Training Today
Participation is invited to the international conference on Performing Arts Training Today, open to performers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training, offering an opportunity for performers, performing arts educators and teachers to demonstrate their methods and techniques. more >
Conference on applied interculturality research (CAIR)
The first conference on Applied Interculturality Research will be held in Graz, Austria from 7-10 April 2010. The main thematic focus of cAIR10 is the application of interculturality research, understood to mean any constructive exchange, interaction or dialogue between theory and practice in any area of interculturality. The deadline for paper proposals is 31 August 2009. more >
October 2009
Performing arts training today
Call for papers and proposals. The International Conference 'Performing Arts Training Today' will take place in Leibnitz, Austria. more >
Guardians of world treasures meet to discuss conservation issues, possible solutions
Later this month, guardians of the world’s cultural treasures will meet in Salzburg, Austria, to explore global themes related to conservation and preservation and develop recommendations for protecting collections around the world. more >
Creating Innovation
The Creating Innovation Conference takes place in the context of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and is organised by Johanneum Research and the Austrian Ministry for Traffic, Innovation and Technollogy (bmvit). more >
June 2009
Intervention through art education
ITAE – intervention through art education is an international consortium of art educators with the aim of improving the quality and intensity of art education in schools and universities. more >
March 2009
1st Global Conference: Culture, Politics, Ethics: Aesthetics, Performance, Oppression, Resistance
This inter-disciplinary project seeks to explore the complex and diverse interfaces of culture, politics and ethics in contemporary political life. more >
May 2008
Achieving the Freer Circulation of Cultural Artifacts
The Salzburg Global Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, will convene its 453rd Session “Achieving the Freer Circulation of Cultural Artifacts” from May 9-14, 2008 in Salzburg, Austria more >
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December 2011
(Inter)Cultural Capitals across Europe
A Grundtvig-Learning Partnership on Intercultural approaches in adult education in the context of European Capitals of Culture. more >
July 2010
The Performing Arts in Lean Times: Opportunities for Reinvention
What questions should performing arts leaders be asking themselves right now? Economic shifts, global and individual reach in technologies, the pursuit of strong and delineated national identities and the appetite for a voice from younger people are all changing how the performing arts are viewed, created and consumed. Fifty performing arts leaders from around the world gathered in February 2010 for a Salzburg Global Seminar focused on opportunities for reinventing the performing arts at a time when many factors are contributing towards a large-scale disruption of the arts. This report, written by the co-chairs of of the event, NAS President and CEO Russell Willis Taylor and Adrian Ellis, Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, summarizes the discussions that took place. more >
May 2009
Art and contemporary critical practice: reinventing institutional critique
Art and Contemporary Critical Practice. Reinventing Institutional Critique is published by eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies and edited by Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray. more >
Report: Traduttore Traditore? Recognizing and Promoting the Critical Role of Translation in a Global Culture
The Seminar brought together more than seventy literary translators and writers, agents, publishers, critics, scholars, cultural authorities, and translation advocates from around the world to shed new light on the unsung art of literary translation and on the vital role translators play in making literature accessible to international audiences. more >
June 2008
EDUCULT Memo Summer 2008
The summer edition of EDUCULT memo contains a number of articles and resources on arts and education. more >
May 2008
EDUCULT Memo Spring 2008
Focuses on ‘youth and creativity’ and contains an article by Michael Wimmer on arts and education as an issue of cultural and education policy. more >
April 2008
Art Following the Trend? Artists’ Voices
A research study that investigates how international and Austrian artists define their roles and functions in society and their earning capacity, and analyses contemporary developments in Creative Industries policies. more >
July 2007
A collection of essays on Cultural Citizenship
The concept of cultural citizenship has inspired a recent collection of essays published by Eurozine. more >
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