La rencontre de Bucarest : 10-13 November 2008

More than a year after ‘’ la rencontre de Sibiu’’, during which an assessment of the role of local and regional authorities in the construction of European cultural policies since the entry of ten countries in 2004 and Romania and Bulgaria in 2007 was made, we will meet this year in Bucharest from the 10th to the 13th of November.
Following the solicitations and the fruitful cooperation between les rencontres and the City of Bucharest, which is a member of our network since many years, we will indeed dedicate a meeting to a second assessment of the role of the local and regional cultural policies in Romania - after 22 months of EU membership - and of course in the other New Member States who joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007.

It will be an opportunity, after the local elections of June 2008, for the elected leaders, the professionals and leaders in charge of culture to exchange views about their own experiences. In this way, it will not be a simple descriptive assessment: we would like to give the cultural actors of local and regional authorities of Romania, Bulgaria, and other European Countries who joined in 2004 the possibility to express themselves, in order to understand and underline the cultural ambitions of their city, region, county and country in the framework of the common European dynamic. Local experiences and testimonies will be essential for the assessment of the data and difficulties that have been experienced.

By organizing a meeting in Romania, together with the members of our network, we wish to insert our work in a continuity, which is an essential condition of cooperation for les rencontres. We hope that many of you will come and (re)discover the city of Bucharest, and develop emerging co-operation projects with Romania and the eleven other New Member States.

For futher informatio, you can download the practical information and the programme.

List of participants

Don't hesitate to contact us for any further information :

Stéphanie Bost, project Manager - This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it T + 33 1 56 54 26 34 / F + 33 1 45 38 70 13