CENTRUL CULTURAL JUDETEAN ARAD WILL HELD THE SEMINAR ABOUT “THE ART IN THE RESEARCH STUDIES ON CULTURAL POLICIES. Cases studies of European cities”, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF EUROPEAN EXPERTS, ARTISTS AND MEMBERS OF THE CreArt NETWORK.

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CENTRUL CULTURAL JUDETEAN ARAD WILL HELD THE SEMINAR ABOUT “THE ART IN THE RESEARCH STUDIES ON CULTURAL POLICIES. Cases studies of European cities”, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF EUROPEAN EXPERTS, ARTISTS AND MEMBERS OF THE CreArt NETWORK.

2013-09-20

Next 27th September will be celebrated in the Arad County Council, a seminar about “THE ART IN THE RESEARCH STUDIES ON CULTURAL POLICIES. Cases studies of European cities” organized by the European project CreArt, that will have the participation of experts in European public and private cultural policies, as well as representatives from the CreArt cities. The Conference takes part under the framework of activities of this Multiannual cultural cooperation project (2012-2017) co-funded by the European Commission.

The objective of this Seminar is to reflect on the importance of the Studies on cultural policies that are being carried out in Europe and how they affect in the possible development of the cities. The art takes integral part in these researches, as it has an effect in the economical, social, cultural aspects, so we think that they deserve an special knowledge by the policy makers, the different public administrations and the private organizations. The main scope of CreArt is to enhance artistic creativity in the European medium-sized cities of its Network and know well, discuss and dialogue about the utility of these studies is the purpose of this European Seminar.

The inauguration of this Seminar will be made by Nicolae Ioţcu, President of Arad County Council, Gheorge Falcă,  Mayor of Arad, Oana Ciobancan, Head Office at Arad County Cultural Center and  Juan González-Posada M., Coordinator of the CreArt Network.

 

Afterwards it will take place the first lecture about “COMPARATIVE CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH IN EUROPE,” by Thomas Perrin, Lecturer at University of Lille 1 / research centre TVES, associate researcher at PACTE - CNRS research centre, University of Grenoble (Policies, Politics and Territories Research Center) and at the University Institute of European Studies of Barcelona (IUEE). He is an expert for the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends inEurope and member of ECURES, the European Association of Cultural Researchers. He worked for the French Ministry of Culture and cultural network abroad (Morocco,Chad) and has been a research assistant atToulouseUniversity since 2005. He is also a part-time lecturer since 2008 at Champollion University (Albi) and gives lectures in other institutions (Paris 8 University, Lyon University,La Rochelle University, SciencesPo Paris...). He completed a Master in intercultural relations at Paris-Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in 2001. Before that, he spent a year at theSchool ofEuropean Studies, Sussex University (UK) and studied Arts Management atParis-Denis-DiderotUniversity. Thomas gained in2010 a PhD in political science from Institut d’Études Politiques,University ofGrenoble, with a thesis which deals with cultural policy and cooperation within Euroregions. In 2011, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University Institute of European Studies of Barcelona (IUEE), in the framework of the programme Explora Pro of Région Rhônes-Alpes. His research and teaching deal with cultural policy, cultural relations and regionalism, in particular - but not only – in the European context. His works have been published in several academic books and journals. Thomas won in 2011 the Mark Schuster Prize on comparative cultural policies. He also received a merit prize for the EU Committee of the Regions’ Doctoral Thesis Competition2011. In 2012, Thomas was awarded by the Toulouse City Council as "chercheur novélisé" in the framework of "La Novela, festival des savoirs partagés". His last book relaeased is Culture et Eurorégions at Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles.

 

    The second intervention will be carried out by Rebecca Amsellem, Doctorante in the Centre d’ économie de la Sorbonne. Université Paris 1, that will speak about the “ANALYSIS OF THE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION IN THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL POLICIES”. Rebecca Amsellem’s fields of expertise include international economics, economic impact of culture, cultural indicators and economics of museums. She holds a Specialised Master’s Degree from Sciences Po Toulouse in “International Affairs and Firms Strategies,” as well as a Master’s Degree fromLa Sorbonne in “Economics and Management of Cultural Products” (2012). Presently she is a PhD cultural economics student atSorbonneUniversity and is developing a PhD thesis about the internationalization of museums and its impact on their economic models.

 

From 2010 to 2013 Rebecca has been a project manager of the Forum d’Avignon, a think tank dedicated to culture and economics, where she was responsible for managing the budget section, working groups and studies, partnerships, communication and the annual event department. In 2013 she founded a consulting firm which deals with internationalization strategies of cultural projects.

 

THE CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURE TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT is the title of the third intervention in this Seminar. It will be made by María Iglesias, and Elisa Grafulla from the European Cultural Agency KEA European Affairs, based in Bruselas. Maria Iglesias is the Head of Research and Analysis at Kea. She is Doctor in Law, specialised in Information and Communication Technologies and in Copyright. Before joining KEA, she was the Head of the Intellectual Property Research Unit at the Centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit (CRID),University ofNamur. She also worked as legal researcher at the Centre of Law and Computer Studies of University of Balearic Islands (CEDIB) and lectured Internet law in a Master programme at the Open University of Catalonia. María has more than 10 years of experience in conducting legal research on Copyright and on the interaction of New Technologies and Law and has participated in numerous international end European research projects. Maria took part to several assignments related to local cultural policies. She has been the project manager of the study “Measuring economic impact of CCIs policies - How to justify investment in cultural and creative assets” (2012) prepared for the INTERREG IVC project CREA.RE, as well as of the European Parliament Study on the Use of Structural Funds for Culturalprojects. She has coordinated other research assignments notably in the field of copyright. María is also involved in the above mentioned research on the Evaluation of Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture and Lille CCIs Diagnostic.

 

    Elisa Grafulla is a Consultant at KEA, she contributes to the implementation of European projects in the culture and creative sector. Before joining KEA, she worked at the Cultural Service of the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU. She had previously developed a project for the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) aimed at facilitating the access of disadvantaged audiences to its multidisciplinary programme. Elisa has also worked in cultural events organisation at the European Commission and, during the Spanish Presidency of the EU, at the Culture Department of the Brussels-based office of the Valencia Region. She holds a M.A. in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Elisa is currently working on the European project “Connecting Arts & Business, the European value of Arts & Business”, carrying out an inventory of Arts & Business initiatives in Europe, and collaborates in the communication of the results of the European project KiiCS – Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science, a project aiming to build bridges between art, science and technology. Elisa also collaborated in the organisation of the final conference of the European project Creative Clash, on artistic interventions in organisations.

 

The Seminar will finish with a round table ¿WHAT  ARE THE STUDIES ON CULTURAL POLICIES USED FOR?  with the participation of Thomas Perrin, Rebecca Amsellem and Maria Iglesias.

The conference will have the presence of representatives from the CreArt cities: Aveiro (Portugal), Kaunas and Vilnius (Lithuania), Pardubice (Czech Republic), Genoa (Italy), Linz (Austria), Kristiansand (Norway) and Valladolid (Spain).

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