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20/21st October 2011
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Flagey Building, Brussels, Belgium
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EU culture forum

3rd EU Culture Forum

Organiser:  European Commission

This stakeholder conference explored how culture can be positioned in the context of the EU 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Topics in the programme were: the potential of digitisation for audience-building and new business models; investment in culture to maximise its contribution to economic and social development at regional and local levels; and the promotion of cultural actors in EU external policy in order for them to catalyse civic empowerment and democratisation processes.

14/15th June 2011
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Brussels, Belgium
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expert meeting

2nd OMC expert group meeting

Organiser:  European Council

The Platform also followed the second meeting of the EU Council’s Expert Group on Accessible Culture and Intercultural Dialogue under the Open MEthod of Coordination (OMC). The national experts compared their answers to a survey conducted within the group. This had explored whether or how ‘access’, ‘participation’ and ‘public’ arts and cultural institutions are officially defined in Member States; whether there are declared goals to improve participation and build demand. Further questions were about target groups, the existence of statistics and indicators, and key initiatives.

23/25th May 2011
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Brussels, Belgium
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forum

5th European Integration Forum - Integration Through Local Action

Organiser:  European Commission, European Economic and Social Committee
13/14th April 2011
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Brussels, Belgium
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council

EU Council’s Cultural Affairs Committee (CAC) meeting

Organiser:  European Council

The Platform for Intercultural Europe presented its work although Intercultural Dialogue does not appear on the agenda of this committee these days. Yet the Platform’s presentation generated the question whether CAC members can participate in Platform events. Moreover, our interest in seeing the 2008 Council Conclusions on Intercultural Competences revived found a positive echo.

8th March 2011
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Brussels, Belgium
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expert meeting

1st OMC expert group meeting

Organiser:  European Council

The first meeting of the expert working group under the Open Method of Coordination set off to tackle the cultural access and participation of children, disabled people, the elderly, socio-economically disadvantaged people, etc. Probably only in 2012 will this group turn to the topics of intercultural dialogue and the cultural participation of migrants and ethnic minorities. Only then will the Platform for Intercultural Europe have a well-matched interlocutor in the EU Council.

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