Who will be the 10th Cultural Policy Research Award winner?

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!

Deadline to apply is Friday, 31 May 2013.

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About the Cultural Policy Research Award

The Cultural Policy Research Award was launched in 2004 by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and since 2008, is developed in partnership with ENCATC.

Designed to foster academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore issues at stake in contemporary Europe, the Cultural Policy Research Award aims to contribute to new competence building among young scholars in comparative cultural policy research.

Through the CPRA annual competition, the program partners aim to encourage and enable cultural policy researchers to take a step from evaluative (descriptive) to comparative applied research that can inform policymaking and benefit practitioners active in the field. The Award is devoted to research projects which shed light on contemporary European cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering policy solutions.

Since 2004, onwards of seven promising young researchers have won the Award which represents an important achievement for them in this discipline, and a key step in the production of new knowledge. By having more than 75 young researchers involved in the annual competition, the CPRA has widened the map of young cultural policy researchers in Europe, and raised their visibility and recognition.

The winner of the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award is Christiaan de Beukelaer, 26 years old from Belgium and studying at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). The winner was announced on the evening of 12 September during the opening of the ENCATC Annual Conference "Networked Culture" (12-14 September 2012) in London, UK.

Read the CPRA Brochure 2012 to meet the 6 finalists who were in the running last year for the 10,000 EUR CPRA.