In September 2025, Barcelona will host Mondiacult, UNESCO’s global conference on cultural policy, bringing together policymakers and experts to shape the future of cultural governance worldwide. As part of our... read more →
In September 2025 the UNESCO global cultural policy conference Mondiacult will take place in Barcelona. In this context, we want to release several Short Profiles in Spanish language in order... read more →
The results of the Compendium Survey on Freedom of Artistic Expression revealed certain barriers to this important cultural right in several European countries. Like all rights, cultural rights also require constant... read more →
Today we are releasing two new Short Profiles in their native language. The Short Profile for Spain is now available in Spanish and the Maltese profile can now be read... read more →
An new short cultural policy profile for Spain is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks goes out to our Spanish experts Anna Villarroya and Pedro Rothstein for... read more →
During an informal meeting in Cáceres, Spain, on September 25 and 26, the European Union's Ministers of Culture approved the Cáceres declaration. With this declaration, the EU strengthens the policy... read more →
Our COVID-19 reports from Austria, the Czech Republic, Ireland and Spain have been recently updated. The reports present country specific information on COVID-19’s implications for the sector and the measures... read more →
The new report on Belgium provides an overview of COVID-19 related measures on different government levels, focussing on those that affect the arts and culture sector in Flanders and Brussels.... read more →
Our section on COVID-19 and its impact on the cultural sector has been extended with reports from Croatia, France, North Macedonia, Malta, Spain and the United Kingdom, and an update... read more →
We are pleased to announce that the first cultural policy profile based on the Compendium’s newly adopted methodological grid is now available on Culturalpolicies.net. National experts Anna Villarroya and Victoria... read more →