Strategies and Programmes
Programmes for both financial support and advisory help are employed at different levels of the Dutch government.
The government funded organisation Cultuur + Ondernemen (Culture and Entrepreneurship) develops programmes and training courses to stimulate entrepreneurship of cultural organisations and individual artists. Within these programmes the organisations or artists are connected with experts, advisors or mentors that can develop and share knowledge for specific topics that need guidance, such as finding funds for transition periods, growing your business or a research project.
The organisation also advocates for better policies and conditions for the entrepreneurship of cultural organisations and artists. And the organisation is responsible for managing and updating the code of Governance within the sector, guiding cultural organisations in their governance structures.
Similarly Platform ACCT (Platform for the labour market in the cultural and creative branches) advocates for better working conditions in the cultural and creative sector, strengthening the durable employability and increasing the income for workers. To this end they continuously seek dialogue between workers, employers, contractors and the government. Platform ACCT is, in collaboration with Kunsten ’92, the administrative and advisory body for the Fair Practice Code, which is created by the sector itself to promote the implementation of better working standards. For the many small entrepreneurs or self-employed persons (ZZP’ers) in the sector some small government funded grants are made available through platform ACCT to stimulate their entrepreneurship and professional development.
Other forms of support
In addition to the direct subsidies extensively described in the preceding chapters, somel l forms of support in the Netherlands promote the production and distribution of culture In an indirect way. One of these regulations (Percentageregeling) obliges the Dutch central government to spend 0.5 to 2 percent of the construction costs in government-initiated construction projects on commissioned artworks (see chapter 3.4 visual arts and crafts).
Another form of legislative support for the arts can be seen in the Wet op de vaste Boekenprijs ( Act on fixed book prices), (see chapter 4.2.5 laws on books and press).
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