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PROGRAMME and PRESENTATIONS
31 Oct. 2007
Opening Session
• Isabel Pires de Lima (Minister of Culture, Portugal)
• Patrícia Salvação Barreto (Director of GPEARI - Ministry of Culture - Portugal)
• Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos (President of Observatório das Actividades Culturais, OAC - Portugal)
• Xavier Troussard (Head of Unit-Culture, EC-Directorate General for Education and Culture, Belgium)
1st session
A research agenda for culture - statistics and indicators
In recent years there is a growing necessity for more suitable statistical tools, aiming at a better knowledge of the cultural and creative sectors and of its economic weight. Accordingly, the first session is intended to put forward future research priorities in the EU.
Speakers
• Marta Beck (Cultural Statistics Expert of Eurostat/European Commission - Luxemburg)
«Development of cultural statistics in the EU»
• Yngve Rosenblad (Leading Statistician in Cultural Statistics - Statistics Estonia)
«Culture Statistics in Estonia: the Experiences of Building a New System for Cultural Statistics in a Small Country»
• José Soares Neves (OAC Researcher/President of the Task Force for Cultural Statistics - CSE - Portugal)
«Cultural or creative statistics? The difficult balance among concepts, policies and resources»
• Vesna Copic (Faculty of Social Sciences, University in Ljubljana - Slovenia)
«Linkage between national conservatism/autistic modernism and weak cultural policy research»
• Carla Bodo (Vice-Chairman of the Associazione per l'Economia della Cultura - Italy)
«More transparency in the governance of culture»
Moderator/Rapporteur
• Kimmo Aulake (Special Government Advisor, Department for Cultural, Sports and Youth Policy, Ministry of Education - Finland)
Conclusions and Recommendations
2nd session
Culture and its role in the development of regions and cities
This role may be improved if culture is called to play a central role in innovative professional training, infrastructure and territorial qualification. This second session is intended to present different experiences and discuss their relevance for local and regional creativity and competitiveness.
Speakers
• Thomas Heskia (Director of the International Centre for Culture and Management - Austria)
«Urban competition and the impact measurement of soft cultural factors»
• Jamilja van der Meulen (Project Leader of Cultural, Leisure Time and Tourism Statistics - Netherlands)
«Culture in the Netherlands»
• Christopher Gordon (Independent consultant and trainer in cultural policy and management - UK)
«Relevance for local and regional creativity and competitiveness?»
• Miguel Melo Bandeira (Professor at Instituto Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho - Portugal)
«The CampUrbis project in Guimarães, or the 'Univer(c)ity': an emerging 'eutopia'»
• Bohdan Jung (Professor at Warsaw School of Economics - Poland)
«The leisure and creative economy as arguments in attracting a megaevent - the case of Wroclaw's bid for EXPO 2012»
Moderator/Rapporteur
• Andreas Wiesand (Executive Director of ERICarts and Head of ZfKf - Germany)
Conclusions and Recommendations
1 Nov. 2007
3rd session
Culture as a driver of growth and jobs
Notwithstanding the important contribution of the cultural and creative industries for Europe's economy, the high share of SMEs operating in the sector points to specific problems. This third session is intended to promote the debate on such problems and to exploit effective ways for the integration of culture in the Lisbon Agenda's employment strategies.
Speakers
• Xavier Greffe (Director of PhD Program in cultural economics, Univ. Paris I, Sorbonne - France
"Is heritage a lever for job development in a creative economy?"
• Philippe Kern (Managing Director of KEA European Affairs - Belgium)
«Culture - a driver for higher employment and better social cohesion?»
• Costis Dallas (Professor of the Department of Communication and Mass Media of Panteion University - Greece)
«Performing artists in Greece: some preliminary remarks from an activity theory viewpoint»
• Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg (Chief Creative Economy & Industries Programme - UNCTAD - Switzerland)
«The Creative Economy: Driving Socio-Economic Growth»
Moderator/Rapporteur
• Dorota Ilczuk (President of the Pro Cultura Foundation - Poland)
Conclusions and Recommendations
4th session
A political agenda for culture - promoting creativity and innovation
Changes in the recent international approaches to the cultural and creative sector require new orientations for cultural policies (a creative cultural policy to promote creativity). This fourth session is intended to exploit possible patterns for a new political agenda.
Speakers
• Raj Isar (Prof. of Cultural Policy Studies, President of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage - EFAH - France)
«Creative Expression and the Cultural Economy: A Fraught Relationship?»
• Peter Inkei (Director of the Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central Europe - Hungary)
«Tactical or essential conversion of cultural policies?»
• Philippe Chantepie (Chief of the Départment des études, de la prospective et des statistiques, MC, France)
«A creativity policy for the culture: objectives, conditions and paradox»
• Hannele Koivunen (Director of Arts and Cultural Heritage Division, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture - Finland)
«Fair Culture? Ethical dimension of cultural policy and cultural rights»
Moderator/Rapporteur
• Augusto Mateus (Professor of the ISEG, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal)
Conclusions and Recommendations
Venue: Pavilhão Atlântico - Sala Tejo - Parque das Nações, Lisbon
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