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Page 1 of 2 The White Paper on the cultural policies of local and regional authorities in Europe Since the autumn of 2004, when we published our «Green Paper on the cultural policies of local and regional authorities in Europe», the European cultural sector has clearly been stimulated by the increasing involvement from local, intermediate and regional authorities in Europe. Furthermore, new perspectives to the acknowledgment of the essential role of culture have been brought by the works of the Commission -especially through the European Agenda for Culture-, those of the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions, as well as those from artistic or cultural networks and civil society organisations.In this context, our association, bearing the aspirations and experiences of local and regional elected leaders and professionals in charge of culture, has decided to write out a White Paper which will present reflections and proposals on the field of cultural policies for the next years. This is the reason why since 2007 a certain number of working meetings on the White Paper have been organised in the framework of our conferences (Sibiu, Paris, Luxembourg, Malmö, Liverpool, Mons and Rome) during which the structure of the White Paper was approved, as well as the method for the writing phase. The "Rencontre de Clichy-la-Garenne" was the meeting focused on the finalisation of the writing stage.
Two different working methods were used according to the section of the White Paper.
For example, if one participant was interested on « culture and education », which was one of the 14 themes for this stage, the participant was invited to ask himself : What must be the role of local and regional authorities in the relation between culture and education ? How are concerned in this matter elected leaders, citizens and artists and other stakeholders suchs as teachers and instructors ?
We were looking for new perspectives or reinforcements of policies which have been proven effective. The articles of the first section were :
Additionally, we proposed the rubric « other » in case a participant considered that his/her contribution did not exactly match to the articles listed above. In that event, he/she had to give a precise title to his/her contribution.
For this section of the White Paper, they could share their ideas :
Participants could express themselves in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or German.
Every contribution was signed by its author in order to be posted on the forum. If they quoted a part of a text that they had previously published or from another writer, they clearly indicated the source. In any case, original contributions were highly appreciated. The White Paper is conceived as a collective work. Nevertheless, authors are going to be overtly identified on the forum and their participation be mentioned in the appendix of the White Paper. The lenght of the contribution was not limited. However, we exhorted them to be succinct.
For the practical section, contributors were invited to submit proposals of « best practices » carried out by local or regional authorities in one or several of the themes defined for the first section. For instance, how a Region conceived and executed an exemplary inclusive cultural programme, linking culture and education. Once the dead-line for submissions was reached, the redaction team prepared a "collection of contributions" which was sent to all the participants registered to our meeting in Cologne. At La Rencontre de Cologne, which comprised two half-day sessions intended for this project (5-7 March 2009), Davor Buinjac, Advisor on cultural policies at the City of Ljubljana, presented a preliminary framework in order to facilitate the debates for each topic. Rafael Mandujano made a summary of the contributions received for each topic as well. The debates were rich and encouraging. Two participants presented their best practices to the audience. The other experiences were briefly described.
At La Rencontre de Clichy-la-Garenne, his proposal was discussed in depth. Click here for more information.
All these elements gathered during the last months will be taken into account for the draft of the White Paper.
Professor Charles Ricq, University of Geneva, has joined the redaction team and will be helping us with this important task.
The selected experiences will be developed afterwards in greater detail and presented at the practical section of the White Paper, while the other will be published at our website.
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