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Moldova: ECF & Soros Foundation Moldova launch new Cultural Policy Pilot
Project

The European Cultural Foundation and the Soros Foundation Moldova launched
in December a one-year pilot initiative intended to lead into a long-term
cultural development process in Moldova to be facilitated by both
organisations in the coming years. For 2007 the following objectives have
been set: to draft some initial policy visions and concrete practical
measures for cultural development in Moldova, which are collected,
conceived and commonly accepted/shared by all leading stakeholders in the
cultural field; to set up a task force/working group comprising cultural
managers and decision-makers who will promote current needs and interests
of the cultural sector and advocate for them at all relevant policy
levels; to develop training and capacity building programs and
tools/services gradually serving all relevant stakeholders in Moldova's
cultural sector; to build up a group of culture professionals as local
trainers/consultants/experts who shall develop and implement future
training- and consulting programs in Moldova. In the past year, Soros
Moldova supported as well the Policies for Culture action project
developed by Alternativa Noua in Chisinau.
For more details write to Philipp Dietachmair, ECF Program Officer, at
pdietachmair la eurocult.org.


 Upcoming Events

April 19-20: Cultural Management and the State of the Field (Helsinki,
Finland)
The Cultural Management Program at Humak University of Applied Sciences in
Helsinki invites academic and practitioners as participants for the first
of a series of symposia on topics concerning the field of cultural
management. The goal of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for
reflection and discussion within the cultural management community on
issues concerning the state of the field. The forum will result in
published proceedings for dissemination. Among the topics addressed are:
the role of the cultural manager and cultural management in a global
society; the cultural manager as a global citizen; cultural citizenship in
the context of national identity vs. international identity; culture as a
theoretical tool.
For more information contact Pekka Vartianen at pekka.vartiainen la humak.edu.

July 5-7: International Workshop 'Political Culture and Cultural Politics
in Central and South East Europe' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
The Institute of Balkan Studies in collaboration with the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences Research Group in European Urban Culture (Newcastle,
UK) organises the international workshop 'Political Culture and Cultural
Politics in Central and South East Europe, 1850-1950'. Urbanization
transformed both Central and South-Eastern Europe during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creating new social groups, and
new ways of perceiving society which in turn informed new forms of
politics. There is already an extensive literature on the national
politics of these regions, from the nationalities policies and nationalist
movements of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires to the party politics
of the successor states. The aim of this workshop is to examine the
development of political cultures in a range of different kinds of urban
environment from the region, with a focus on points of contact between
culture and politics.
For more information write to Dobrinka Parusheva at clio_dp la yahoo.co.uk or
visit www.balkanlink.org.


 Opportunities

ECF Grants and Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture: first calls for projects
2007
Application deadline: 1 March 2007
The European Cultural Foundation Grants Programme supports projects that
promote European cultural exchange and cooperation. The creation of
artistic works, media projects or cultural policy development as well as
capacity building of cultural organisations or international collaboration
of arts managers are among the eligible types of projects. The programme
funds small and medium-sized independent cultural organisations that work
on cross-border and inter-regional projects. From 2006, the ECF gives
extra attention to issues of diversity, which will also be expressed in
the Grants awarded. In 2006, the ECF set up a new grant initiative, Balkan
Incentive Fund for Culture. Its first deadline was in July, but starting
2007 the deadlines for the Fund are the same as those for Grants. The
Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture is specifically aimed at cultural
projects by applicants from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo.
For more details visit www.eurocult.org.

Robert Bosch Fellowships at the Institute for Human Sciences
Application deadline: 28 February 2007
The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna awards four six-month
research fellowships to Ph.D. candidates or post-doctoral researchers
during the academic year 2007/08. The programme is focused on South East
Europe. Eligible to apply are researchers from the region and, independent
of the country of origin, persons who are either affiliated to
universities and research institutions in or pursuing research on South
East Europe. The program is directed to graduates with a degree in the
humanities and social sciences, that will work in Vienna on a research
project of their choice that is related to one of the IWM's main research
fields, among which are: in search of an intellectual, social, and
political identity of Europe; sources of inequality; Central and Eastern
Europe in a global context .
For more information and the application procedure visit www.iwm.at.

CPR Award 2007: Europe's Cultural Diversity in Focus
Application deadline: 1 May 2007
The Cultural Policy Research Award (CPR Award) aims to stimulate academic
research in the field of cultural policy by giving young researchers from
all over Europe the opportunity to realize their research projects. This
year, young academics are invited to propose research projects which
analyse various aspects of cultural diversity in Europe and which seek to
inform policy making and benefit practitioners active in the cultural
field. The award is open to young - 35 or under - academics, researchers
and policymakers. A long-term goal of this program is the development of a
network of young cultural policy scholars. The nominees are selected by an
international Jury of cultural policy researchers and this year's winner
will be announced in summer 2007. The Cultural Policy Research Award is an
initiative of the ECF and Riksbankens Jubileumfonds.
For more information and the application forms visit www.cpraward.org.

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