DIGEST NEWS ISSUE N°5 / 2015 ENCATC is also an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO. Editorial 3 News from the ENCATC 4 ABOUT THIS MAGAZINE ENCATC NEWS is an information service for Secretariat in Brussels ENCATC Members produced by the ENCATC Secretariat in Brussels. ENCATC NEWS is an electronic magazine for all those interested in policy developments, news, happenings and research in the field of culture and education. ENCATC in Contact 8 A shorter digest version is made for non members. EDITOR GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens ENCATC Networking 10 CONTRIBUTOR Elizabeth Darley ABOUT ENCATC ENCATC Building Capacity 12 ENCATC is the leading European network on cultural policy and management. It is an independent membership organisation gathering over 100 higher education institutions and cultural organisations in over ENCATC Research 15 40 countries. 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COVER PHOTO “Chihuly Glass” by Mark Fischer via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 ENCATC Avenue Maurice, 1 B-1050 Brussels Belgium Tel/Fax: +32.2.201.29.12 www.encatc.org 2 WWW.ENCATC.ORG ENCATC launches a new Book Series on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education © Chia Michael Dear ENCATC colleagues, reference tools for education and lifelong learning on cultural management and cultural policies. We are so excited to share with you our new Book Series ENCATC has launched with the To start this new collection of books, we have international publishing house, P.I.E. Peter Lang! decided to publish the PhD thesis of the first winner of the ENCATC Research Award: Elodie It is becoming more and more evident that Bordat-Chauvin. The publication, “When Cultural education in cultural management and cultural Policies Change: Comparing Mexico and policy cannot and should not be separated from Argentina”, is a comparative and historical research being conducted in the field. Since its analysis which sheds new light on the emergence, creation, ENCATC has recognised this need and institutionalization and transformation of the has always been very active in pursuing, cultural policies of two major Latin American publishing, presenting, and disseminating countries: Mexico and Argentina. The research in arts and cultural management and investigation is based on the material gathered in cultural policy to strengthen the understanding the ethnographic fieldwork conducted between and knowledge of cultural management and 2008 and 2010. The work challenges the common cultural policy issues. assumptions that Mexican cultural policy is ENCATC is a partner in many European research characterized by inertia and Argentinean cultural projects in fields like leadership, spillover of the policy by instability. It analyses factors of change creative industries, and heritage. In line with this and their consequences including reductions in objective, ENCATC’s own research activities cultural budgets, transformations in cultural already include over the past years the publication industries, and modifications in the balance of of the scientific Journal of Cultural Management power between national, subnational, public and and Policy, the organisation of a Research private actors. Session during our Annual Conference, the ENCATC is convinced this publication is an organisation of the Forum for Young Researchers, important contribution for the academic and and the organisation of the ENCATC Research scientific community and will certainly provide Award. To continue pursuing this objective and academics, researchers, policy makers and creating even stronger synergy between practitioners with a unique useful reference tool education and research, in 2014 ENCATC for the development of cultural policies and decided to start the publication of its first Book practices in Mexico and Argentina. Series. The aim of this new ambitious project is to foster We invite you to learn more and get your copy of critical debate and to publish academic research “When Cultural Policies Change: Comparing in the field of cultural management and cultural Mexico and Argentina” here! policy. It intends also open up a forum for discussions and debate on the topics of cultural Yours truly, management and cultural policy among scholars, GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens educators, policy makers, and cultural managers. ENCATC Secretary General The Book Series is also intended to provide 3 WWW.ENCATC.ORG News from Brussels News Issue: N°5 / 2015 Meet more of ENCATC’s newest members who have joined in 2015! News from Brussels News Over the course of 2015 ENCATC has seen its the first rector of the Academy, Vilhelms Purvitis membership grow with 19 new members from 13 (1872-1945). He favored the development of members in Europe but also as far away as Latvian art as well as a modernized tradition of Canada and Israel. We invite you to meet more of academic education, an openness to topical art these new members and join us in welcoming them processes and activities, contributing to to the network! pedagogues in preparing young artists, and a high level performance of the students. All of these elements have ensured and preserved the Sapir College, Israel Academy’s authority till today. The main task of the The undergraduate program of Culture, Creation Department is to prepare specialists working in the and Production Department at Sapir College allows fields of art history, art theory, and criticism. During its students to pursue profound academic studies much attention is paid to the art and culture News from Brussels News background in the field of cultural studies together of Latvia and its nearest regions. The Department with gaining practical knowledge and hands-on offers a great range of theoretical disciplines – experience in the professional field of "Cultural from antiquity to contemporary art, focusing on Management". Established in 2008, the program is history, politics, aesthetics, philosophy, art theories the first of its kind in the field of culture in Israel and critics. Students also master courses of due to its unique combination of theoretical and management, art pedagogy and journalism. practical studies. The Culture, Creation and Production Department conducts various activities ENCATC Contact: in collaboration with the local community living in Andris Teikmanis, Vice rector in Study and the campus surroundings, as well as with the major Research Work [email protected] culture and social institutions in Israel. Eventually, the program graduates get integrated in the local Learn more here: and international culture industries, in www.lma.lv organizations such as arts institutions, theatres, community cultural centres, local authorities, publishing, printed and online press, private Erasmus University Rotterdam, enterprises and more. Netherlands ENCATC Contact: The Erasmus School of History, Culture and from Brussels News Shira Lapidot, Head of Cultural Management Communication (ESHCC) is a dynamic faculty in Program Culture, Creation and Production the international port of Rotterdam. With five Department undergraduate programs, eight master's programs [email protected] and a research master the faculty has an interesting curriculum. The Faculty is nationally Learn more here: and internationally recognized for research in the http://eng.sapir.ac.il/ fields of History, Art and Culture Studies and Media & Communications. The cultural sector is going through a turbulent period. Our students acquire Art Academy of Latvia the skills to identify and exploit the opportunities of The Art Academy of Latvia was founded in 1919 by this situation. Our program puts a great emphasis one of the first Latvian professional painters and on cutting-edge theory and original empirical WWW.ENCATC.ORG 4 News from Brussels News Issue: N°5 / 2015 research, which is an important aspect of market Plymouth University is an ambitious, world-class research, strategic management, and many university. By placing enterprise at the heart of entrepreneurial projects. everything it does, the university develops an innovative and creative culture that empowers ENCATC Contact: people. Its mission is to advance knowledge and Dr. Marilena Vecco, Assistant Professor transform lives through education and research. [email protected] The university offers BA (Hons) Creative Arts Learn more here: Management and BA (Hons) Art History. Through www.eshcc.eur.nl these programmes, students: demonstrate an understanding of the concepts and characteristics of creative arts management as an area of The Ankide Foundation, Spain academic and applied study; develop a thorough foundation in both historical and contemporary