By Gerald Lidstone, ENCATC President As we look beyond 2030, one thing becomes increasingly clear: the future is cultural. The theme of this year’s ENCATC Congress — The Future Is Cultural: Policy, Practice, and Education — captured a crucial moment in our shared work. Around the world, we are confronting intersecting crises: ecological fragility, digital disruption, and political polarisation.Read more
By Ms. GiannaLia Cogliandro, ENCATC Secretary General /EDITORIAL This issue of the ENCATC Scholar – Issue #19 – focuses on equipping educators with practical teaching materials and innovative approaches in response to the rapidly evolving challenges facing the cultural sector. As the world undergoes profound transformations – technological advancements, environmental crises, and shifting societal valuesRead more
By ENCATC /EDITORIAL Cultural policy system and cultural trends in Morocco and North Africa This issue of the /encatcSCHOLAR is a follow up of the 9th ENCATC International Study Tour, which gathered 33 educators, researchers, artists, cultural professionals, and decision makers from 10 countries in Casablanca and Marrakesh, Morocco, from 10-14 June 2019 The ContextRead more
By Cristina Ortega, PhD Director of 3Walks and scientific coordinator of the UNESCO-ENCATC project “Learning on intangible heritage: building teachers’ capacity for a sustainable future” /EDITORIAL Learning on Intangible Cultural Heritage With a new vision of cultural heritage gaining prominence, UNESCO encourages integration of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in training programmes for future decision-makers andRead more
By GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens ENCATC Secretary General and editor of the /encatcSCHOLAR /EDITORIAL Further learning about the sustainability of cultural networks Dear /encatcSCHOLAR readers, Issue nr. 9 of the /encatcSCHOLAR is part of the legacy of the 25th ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy ”Click, Connect and Collaborate! New directions in sustaining cultural networks”. With thisRead more
By GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens ENCATC Secretary General and editor of the /encatcSCHOLAR /Editorial Because culture does have a say in Europe’s refugee crisis The 6th ENCATC Academy on Culture in External Relations (Brussels, 27-28 March 2017) was devoted to “The question of culture in Europe’s refugee crisis”. The focus on this topic showed ENCATC’s commitment toRead more
By Annick Schramme President of ENCATC /Editorial Cultural Management Education in Risk Societies – Towards a Paradigm and Policy Shift?! The events of last year like the terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and Nice; the huge amount of refugees, or the Brexit, to sum up only some of them, are not new, they are onlyRead more
By John Holden Associate at Demos, Visiting Professor at City University, London and Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong, China /Editorial The Ecology of Culture Last year, the AHRC’s Cultural Value Project asked me to carry out research and produce a report about the Ecology of Culture. The report has just been published and canRead more
By GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens ENCATC Secretary General and editor of the /encatcSCHOLAR /Editorial Our first monographic issue, on digitalization and the cultural field In 2013 we launched the /encatcSCHOLAR as a response to a growing demand from our members for materials to be used in the classroom, for education and training on cultural management and policy.Read more
By Cristina Ortega ENCATC President “Rethinking Education Strategy and the relevance of producing highly skilled and versatile people who can contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship” (Androulla Vassiliou) /encatcSCHOLAR is born to satisfy the demand of ENCATC members, academics, researchers and students: to exchange teaching methodologies and knowledge to use in the classroom. /encatcSCHOLAR is intendedRead more
