Arts and Creativity in the Digital Era #5
Cultural Policies: from EU cohesion policies to local and regional policies

Cultural policies have been more and more embedded in economic policies, both at the EU level and the national and local/regional one. On the one hand, the cultural and artistic fields are being redefined, covering a wider range of activities, agents and goals (in which digitization and ICTs are playing an important role); on the other hand, the rationale for cultural policies is allowing increasingly ambiguous and instrumental conceptions, especially with regard to economic-driven objectives for culture. This seminar addresses the question of how EU cultural orientations and programs relate to and impact national and local/regional cultural policies.