December 2008
Adriatic region in focus: part I online now
The Adriatic Euroregion is the focal point for the next two editions of LabforCulture's Region in focus. The Adriatic Euroregion Part I starts with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Part II will cover Albania, Italy and Montenegro and will be posted early next year on LabforCulture. more >
November 2008
LabforCulture has gone Italian.
Two years after launching the networking platform with information on arts and culture across borders in Europe, the portal is now adding the Italian language version to the site. This will make the site more accessible to a wider part of the Italian community and expands the site to 6 languages. more >
October 2008
Wolfgang Petritsch new Chair of the ECF Board
ECF announced this week that Wolfgang Petritsch has accepted to be the ECF's new Chair. more >
Rainbow Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: sign up to the recommendations!
Give the Rainbow Paper your support, increase the impact of the recommendations and become eligible for formal membership of the Platform. The Platform for Intercultural Europe has become an association and will be able to assume its assigned role as a "Structured Dialogue" partner of the EU institutions. more >
September 2008
New website for the Council of Culture
The Council for Culture (Raad voor Cultuur) has launched a new website. more >
LabforCulture.org has a new interface
Labforculture.org have been working away to create a new and improved platform. more >
July 2008
Culture and Conflict: Introduction
A special article on culture and conflict that investigates how art provides practical help in times of war, conflict and violence in five countries. more >
May 2008
Arts council plans rejected
The arts council has been sent back to the drawing board by culture minister Ronald Plasterk after he rejected its wish to boost spending on the arts by 10% over the next four years. more >
April 2008
Open Lines to Intercultural Dialogue: have your say
LabforCulture has launched an online participatory project, ‘Open Lines to Intercultural Dialogue’, which invites people from around the world to share their personal interpretations of intercultural dialogue. more >
March 2008
Culture Card going digital
The Dutch Minister of Culture is introducing Cultuurkaart, a card that provides school pupils money to spend on culture. more >
February 2008
Free Trade and Culture Book Review
Garry Neil reviews the book by Peter van den Bossche, 'Free Trade and Culture: A Study of Relevant WTO Rules and Constraints on National Cultural Policy Measures'. more >
November 2007
Culture is an intrinsic part of combating poverty
Policy is on the move in culture and development. A coalition of 17 Dutch organisations in the cultural sector and a number of organisations for development cooperation has been working to get a stronger role assigned to culture in development cooperation. more >
Cultural Policy and International Funds
With its art and culture programme the Ford Foundation strives to expand opportunities for artistic and cultural expression. more >
October 2007
Call for Papers - Culture: Social Cohesion and Integration Challenges
The objective is to exchange the latest ideas and practices on culture as it relates to social cohesion and integration challenges in both rural/urban and developed/developing environments. more >
Geopolitics, ‘Soft Power’ and Popular Culture in the Middle East
Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication on geopolitics, ‘soft power, and popular culture in the Middle East. more >
New Region in Focus: The Nordic Region
LabforCulture.org, the essential tool for everyone involved in arts and culture in Europe, continues to promote cross-border collaboration through its innovative Region in focus features. more >
August 2007
Clash of Civilisations
The first Director of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Els van der Plas, on the Fund, the 'clash of civilisations', and the Fund's activities in the Middle East. more >
Rainbow Paper on Intercultural Dialogue
Civil society actors are being asked to contribute to a consultation on intercultural dialogue. more >
May 2007
A Cultural Crossroad for Romania and Bulgaria
What is the role of state support for this sector today and is there any promising future? This and other questions were put to prominent artists, arts managers, curators, researchers and policy-makers from Romania and Bulgaria. more >
Are you a network junkie?
Many cross-European cultural networks have moved quickly to extend their online presence, but this has had the side-effect of throwing a considerable amount of information into the public domain in an unregulated fashion under the name of 'knowledge', when it is really only 'data'. more >
Nicholas Motsatse about the World Arts Summit in Johannesburg
The eyes of the culture world are on South Africa as the country prepares to host the fourth World Summit on Arts and Culture in 2009. more >
March 2007
Diversity Makes the Difference
Europe’s cultural sector has called for cultural cooperation between the EU and third countries to form a strong part of EU foreign policy. more >
June 2006
LAB FOR CULTURE LAUNCHED
A new online resource has been created for those working in the arts in Europe. LabforCulture offers case studies, stories of cross-border collaborations, cultural news and newsletters, information, and funding tips. more >
Dutch Embassy Funds Rwandan Cultural Visit
The Royal Netherlands Embassy is sending 20 Rwandans to an international Dutch festival in an effort to improve cultural and business ties. more >
May 2006
ECF launches new cultural fund
The European Cultural Foundation, Hivos and the Open Society Institute, have created a new funding program for cultural projects in the South East of Europe. more >
Netherlands Opts For Strategic International Cultural Policy
Culture State Secretary Medy van der Laan and Foreign Affairs State Secretary Atzo Nicolaï intend to streamline the Netherlands' international cultural policy. More attention will be paid to political and economic relevance and to the influence of other cultures on Dutch art, according to a letter they sent to the Lower House yesterday. more >
April 2006
Dutch Secretary of State Nicolaï: 'Culture directly promotes tourism'
Overseas cultural legacy is gaining significance in the Netherlands. But would developing countries not prefer to forget reminders of the Dutch slave trade and colonialism? Secretary of state Atzo Nicolaï: "Most Dutch people are completely unaware of the monuments that we have left in other parts of the world." more >
November 2005
The Other: About the role of Art and Culture in the Balkans
On 1 December 2005 the ECF, in cooperation with the HIVOS, has organised a conference in the Peace Palace in The Hague entitled The Heart of the Matter, in which more than one hundred policy makers, artists and journalists will discuss the part culture can play in integrating the Balkan into the European Union. more >
April 2005
Cultural Policy Conference for Dutch postings in Latin America
Interest in cooperative cultural projects to be performed in Latin America is growing in the Netherlands. more >
March 2005
Taxpayer support for artists: too much of a good thing?
The Netherlands is an intriguing case study in the debate over how much public funding should go to the arts. more >
June 2004
New cultural policy group in Europe
The European Cultural Foundation has launched a new initiative in the field of cultural policy training and education. more >
January 2004
Science, technology and the arts
Artists, writers, journalists, art critics, curators and philosophers are being urged to join space scientists, engineers and technologists at a conference in The Netherlands in May. more >
March 2003
New Institut Neerlandais Director
The Dutch Government has announced that Rudi Wester has been appointed Director of the Dutch cultural institute in Paris. more >
The Dutch give the arts a dash of (cold) water
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's staggering $21 billion budget is the largest of any Dutch government agency. The culture ministry spends $400 million a year directly on the arts - about $25 for every Dutch citizen. But the free ride may be ending. more >
May 2002
Restitution of artworks honoured
Netherlands State Secretary for Culture, Rick Van der Ploeg, has recently honoured two requests for the restitution of artworks recovered from Germany after the Second World War. more >
Netherlands releases third report on provenance of State Art Collection
The 'Netherlands, Origins Unkown' project office has released its third report on its investigation into the provenance of the state's art collection, known as the 'NK' collection. more >
October 2008
Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities
Res Artis 11th General Meeting. Join us in Amsterdam to explore the diversity of international residency programs, meeting colleagues from throughout the world and a wide range of Dutch initiators. more >
June 2008
Inaugural Conference on the Inclusive Museum
At this time of fundamental social change, what is the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and perhaps also as an agent of change? more >
December 2007
Seminar on “Culture, social cohesion and integration challenges”
The objective is to exchange the latest ideas and practices on culture as it relates to social cohesion and integration challenges in both rural/urban and developed/developing environments. more >
October 2007
Public and private involvement in financing
On October the 5th and 6th 2007, the Boekman Foundation organises a round table in cooperation with the Erasmus University Rotterdam. more >
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State on Stage: Best Practices of Government support for Performing Arts
An international conference on best practices in government support of the performing arts. more >
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December 2008
Capitalising on culture: the impact of the European Capitals of Culture on the local independent cultural sector
Between 2007 and 2019, there could be as many as 180 cities bidding for the title of European Capital of Culture, according to a recently launched website for the Association of Candidate Cities to the European Capital of Culture. As more and more cities vie for the title, LabforCulture has been investigating the existing research on the subject, in partnership with Trans Europe Halles, a network of independent culture centres with 49 members in 25 countries. more >
November 2008
Netwerken en verbindingen: arts and cultural education in the Netherlands
Based on a six month study of arts and cultural education in The Netherlands, this report assesses the current state of these two subjects in the country. more >
Managing diversity?
This publication has a double aim: in the first place it explores the complex ins and outs of managing diversity through a pallet of essays and stories of practitioners in the field of arts and culture; in the second place it explores diversity through art – through the eye of the photographer Ahmet Polat. more >
September 2008
Diversity: essays and images
Does art play a role in understanding diversity in our society? The ECF and photographer Ahmet Polat set out to explore the complex ins and outs of managing diversity through essays and images. more >
June 2008
Journal of Cultural Economics vol 32 no 2
The latest edition of the Journal of Cultural Economics is now available online. more >
Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience
This book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for analysing the arts in education and in society. more >
State on Stage: The impact of public policies on the performing arts in Europe
A detailed analysis of the relationship between governments and the performing arts in Europe over the past fifteen years. more >
Journal of Cultural Economics vol 32 no 3
Volume 32 number 3 of the Journal of Cultural Economics is now available online. more >
April 2008
Art for life's sake: Dutch cultural policy in outline
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has released an English translation of its forward cultural policy agenda. more >
The World is Getting Smaller: Evaluation of BKVB Fund Foreign Studios (1989-2005)
An evaluation of and recommendations for the foreign artist studios policy of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. more >
March 2008
The impact of ‘central places’ on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures
Analyses whether and how municipalities influence each other in this decision to spend resources on the arts. more >
Tools for Culture: The Resonance & Use of Online Tools in the Cultural Sector
LabforCulture's latest Research in focus topic, 'Tools for Culture' presents an overview of how the cultural sector is (or is not) taking up online technology tools for collaboration across Europe. more >
February 2008
Journal of Cultural Economics vol. 32 no. 1
Volume 32 number 1 of Journal of Cultural Economics is available on the Springer web site. more >
The position of cultural workers in creative industries: The south-eastern European perspective
What lies beneath the ‘glossy’ surface of the statistics about creative industries? more >
January 2008
Rainbow paper: Practice makes perfect, a learning framework for intercultural dialogue
A learning framework for intercultural dialogue. more >
December 2007
Theatre and Development
Six articles on the relationship between theatre and development in three continents. more >
November 2007
Offshore brochure: Dutch cultural activities abroad
Offshore is the most complete and current overview of Dutch cultural activities abroad. At this moment (November 2007) Offshore contains data on more than 18,000 activities that took place in 101 countries between 1999 and 2007. more >
Theme: culture and ethics
Standards and values are an integral part of any culture; hence, culture is the bedrock supporting every development. more >
Arts and cultural education in the Netherlands
Netwerken en verbindingen: Arts and cultural education in the Netherlands assesses the current state of these two subjects in the country. more >
Journal of Cultural Economics Vol 31 No 4
Volume 31 Number 4 of the Journal of Cultural Economics is now available online. more >
September 2007
Journal of Cultural Economics vol 31 no 3
Volume 31 Number 3 of Journal of Cultural Economics is now available online. more >
Cultural Actors of Change in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
Reports for each region from the ECF's Eastern Reflection Group. more >
Arts Management in Turbulent Times - now available in Arabic
With the help of Al Mawred, the European Cultural Foundation has released an Arabic language version of its publication 'Arts Management in Turbulent Times - Adaptable Quality Mangement'. more >
August 2007
European Cultural Cooperation Resources
LabforCulture's research in focus on cultural cooperation. more >
Status of Artists in Europe
Research resources that describe, discuss and monitor the legal frameworks that influence the professional, economic and social status of artists in Europe. more >
Region in Focus: The Nordic Region
LabforCulture's region in focus for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. more >
June 2007
May 2007
The European Union and Cultural Policy – Chimera, Camel or Chrysalis?
An ECF commissioned consultative paper assessing the position of, and advocacy for, cultural policies for Europe. more >
April 2007
ECF e-zine special issue on mobility
This special e-zine provides an array of insights on the subject of mobility, and a brief guide to the funds and tools available. more >
Free Trade and Culture: A Study of Relevant WTO Rules and Constraints on National Cultural Policy Measures
Gives virtually all answers to questions related to culture and trade. more >
March 2007
A Cultural Dimension to the EU's External Policies from Policy Statements to Practice and Potential
Provides insights about attitudes to, and the potential for, a cultural dimension tot the EU's external policies. more >
February 2007
Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics
Explores whether culture plays a significant role in explaining country differences in business ethics policies. more >
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Cultural Governance in the Netherlands
This publication is a summary of the ‘Handleiding Cultural Governance’ [Cultural Governance Manual], as published by the stichting Kunst & Zaken. The manual is a guide for the practical implementation and application of the 23 Recommendations for Cultural Governance. more >
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