Our mission is to stimulate the development of cultural management and cultural policy in Europe and beyond, engaging and responding to new developments in politics, economics, societies and technology.

Our mission is underpinned by the following values:

• We believe that our role is to seek out and promote new education and training practice in the cultural and creative professions to enhance knowledge and skills, and thus employability in rewarding careers.
• We believe it is our role to provide a creative space for our members to share competences in pedagogy to embrace cultural diversity in policies at all levels, local and global.
• We believe that all of our activity should be underpinned where possible by research in areas of both culture and education to foster sustainability in the cultural area.
• We believe in the power of sustainable partnerships to advance our aims to develop a creative approach to common challenges.
• We believe that by embracing flexibility in all our planning, activities and partnerships we will be in a position to effectively develop the network to adapt to change within Europe, and globally.
• We believe that it is our responsibility to respect the diverse views of our members and stakeholders and provide an open platform for debate  to encourage individuality, bringing our diverse strengths together.

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