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International Intelligence on Culture, consultancy, research and advisory work:

Current and Recent Projects

Client: European Cultural Foundation's Laboratory for Cultural Co-operation
Project: Study on a cultural domension to European external policies
Description: Research and interviews in six EU countries into EU Menmber States' attitudes towards a cultral component to EU external policies
 
Client: Leonardo Programme
Project: VANIA
Description: A two-year research project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci Programme, to determine the skills and competencies needed by managers involved in European cultural co-operation projects
Associates: Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels; Cupore, Helsinki; Evremathia, Athens
 
Client: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Project: Study on the arts and cultural indicators in Hong Kong
Description: A major review of arts and cultural indicators and linkages with social indicators in Hong Kong; based on international comparators
Associates: Colin Mercer, Hong Kong Policy Research Institute
 
Client: Asia-Europe Foundation
Project: International cultural policy conference in Bangkok
Description: Provision of programme and intellectual content, compiling pre-conference documentation and post-conference report
  Conference took place June 2004
 
Client: Council of Europe
Project: Theatre law in Armenia
Description: Advising on the text of a new law governing theatre in Armenia
Project Partner: John Faulkner
 
Client: Asia Europe Foundation
Project: Asia-Europe cultural co-operation culture partnership mapping
Description: A selective examination of cultural information resources in Europe and recommendations for the development of a portal for Asia-Europe cultural co-operation (now launching as Culture 360°)
Associates: Lidia Varbanova, Director of the Centre for Intercultural & Social Development
 
Client: Government Office of the North East (England)
Project: An issues paper on the implications for cultural policy, structures and funding arrangements with regards to the creation of a regional assembly
Description: Providing international comparisons on the operation of cultural policies and structures at regional level and their link to regional development
Project Partner: Christopher Gordon
 
Client: Arts Council England
Project: International Policy Intelligence
Description: Intelligence on prospective policy shifts, legislation and funding programmes of the European Institutions and monitoring of cultural policy developments internationally
  1994-2006
 

2003 (selected projects):

Client: Ministry of Education, Finland
Project: Review of Finnish Arts Council system
Description: Evaluation of the case for strengthening the Finnish Arts Council system beyond its current role of financing artists
Project Partner: Theodor Adams
 
Client: Interarts Foundation and EFAH for the European Commission
Project: Research on the state of intergovernmental cultural co-operation in Europe
Description: Studies on cultural co-operation between national cultural institutes, on European co-operation, on cultural research and on language co-operation
 
Client: Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Project: Development of Policy on Ulster Scots
Description: International case studies on minority languages
 
Client: Visiting Arts and the Ford Foundation
Project: Training for Viet Nam officials
Description: Preparing and leading a four-day training seminar on cultural policy, focusing on international practice
 

2002 (selected projects):

Client: East England Arts
Project: Strategic international framework for the arts in the East of England
Description: Reviewing international arts related activity in the region and drawing up a more strategic policy framework for the development of such activity
 
Client: European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
Project: European Observatory on Cultural Co-operation
Description: A paper exploring the environment and potential for a European Observatory on Cultural Co-operation
 

Ongoing Work

Client: City University, London
Project: Arts Management MA course module
Description: Organisation of module on International Cultural Governance and Co-operation
 
Client: for Goldsmiths College, University of London
Project: Arts Management MA course module
Description: Organisation of module on European Cultural Policy
 



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