YOUNG CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCHERS FORUM
4TH YOUNG CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCHERS FORUM
Brussels, 6-7 October 2010
Younger researchers who are exploring aspects of Cultural Policy at a European level can too easily be or feel isolated, especially when the outcomes of their work are expected or predicted to have a real impact on future developments. Those who have been in the field for some time are likely to have developed cross-border contacts and experience, but the ‘younger’ researchers (young in years or young in this field) may find it a little hard to push the door open.
That is why the European Cultural Foundation, ECF, in partnership with The European Network of Cultural Administration Training centers, ENCATC, run each year, a Forum for Young Researchers. It gives up to 40 of them, drawn from a wide range of different countries, the chance to come together face to face, to discuss common themes, to share and develop ideas, to learn from each other, to consider different approaches to methodology, and often to find partners in cross-border affiliations.
This year’s Forum, the fourth, will take place in Brussels on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 October. It will be linked with the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) and will start the day before the annual ENCATC conference for educators in the field of arts and cultural policy & management. There is no fee to be paid for attending the forum.
Further information concerning this conference is available in the right-hand column.
Links at the end of this page will also provide you with information concerning the 2009 and 2008 Forums.
Stimulating researchers – Creating a European competitive research area
The YCPR Forum was initiated in 2006 to stimulate networking between young cultural policy researchers with European competencies. It is of particular interest to young researchers, because it provides them with the opportunity to meet and share experience with fellow researchers from different countries, to discuss topics of common interest, and to possibly find partners in the context of their research, as well as publishers.
NEW ONLINE SPACE FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS !
We are launching the Young Researchers Forum, an online space to share, collaborate, network and reflect. It aims to strenghten the community of young researchers so their work is peer to peer supported and more accessible in the wider research community.
Built as a moderated community group, the space offers a unique interactive opportunity for young cultural policy researchers for networking, online posting, participation in high quality discussions with eminent researchers and professionals; it provides information about key events in the field, offers a blogging space and much more.
The Forum is developed by the European Cultural Foundation, LabforCulture, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and ENCATC, as part of a larger collaborative project involving Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) and the annual Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum.