Themes and Issues in Cultural Policy

The Compendium country profiles address over 80 issues of cultural policy organised in chapters on historical developments, decision-making processes, main objectives, current policy issues, legal frameworks, cultural institutions and partnerships, funding provisions, support to creativity and participation. View the entire Structure of the Compendium profiles. It is available for download in 21 different languages. Country profiles organised according to this structure can be accessed under Countries.

Transversal Themes 

This Transversal Themes section has been created in order to better highlight and integrate information on those issues addressed in the Compendium profiles that are cross-cutting:

• cultural diversity;
• intercultural dialogue;
• the status of artists;
• international cultural co-operation, mobility and cultural policies; and
• ethics and human rights in cultural (policy) contexts.

These transversal themes have been identified as issues of priority to the Council of Europe, to experts in other international organisations and in the participating Compendium countries, as well as to the research community. All issues are reported on in different parts of the Compendium profiles and are addressed in comparative and/or monitoring tables produced over the past years.

The main objectives of this section are to:

• facilitate transversal approaches to cultural policy thinking, analysis and monitoring;
• enable integrated access to specific "information clusters" from one point within the Compendium system;
• visually demonstrate cross referencing and links between sub-chapters in the Compendium; and
• better promote existing and new Compendium activities such as monitoring tables and comparative tools.

Users will select one of these issues and be led to its individual web page containing the following type of information:

• short introduction (methodology, definitions etc);
• links to relevant Compendium sub-chapters, enabling users to create integrated country reports (compiling information from different countries or from different chapters into one document);
• existing and new comparative/monitoring tables;
• links to key resources; and
• a debate space (in the ethics & human rights section).

A database of good practice cases on intercultural dialogue has also been added.

We look forward to hearing from you!  Please send your comments to: info@culturalpolicies.net