The application of Istanbul Bilgi University for the establishment of a chair of Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy under the framework of the UNESCO Chairs/UNITWIN Networks Programme, which promotes the establishment of networks between UNESCO chairs and universities within the higher education institutions, has been accepted in the previous days. The Chair will conduct its work within the body of Cultural Policy and Management Research Centre (KPY).

ENCATC, AAAE, and TACPS Launched the First-Ever Brussels Manifesto on Arts Management, Cultural Management and Policy Education

The Civic City in a Nomadic World, the book that is the culmination of Charles Landry’s thoughts and works in recent years on fragility, the dynamics of urban life, and the interest in the central challenges of the era, has been published.

Culture for Cities and Regions Project, a European Commission initiative that began in January 2015 with the aim of promoting cities and regions in terms of healthy investments in cultures, which was jointly carried out by EUROCITIES, KEA and ERRIN, has been completed in September 2017.

Izmir Mediterranean Academy has organized the second Good Design Izmir under the theme of “Opening Up a Space” and brought together in Kültürpark audiences with designers, universities’ departments of design, professional organizations and independent actors operating in the field of design.

The Budapest Observatory has been carrying out a research project that is titled The Cultural Barometer. Under this project, Cultural Climate Barometer 2017 survey has been implemented. The survey includes questions on the problematic factors for the vitality of culture, as well as the accommodating, positive aspects that affect the cultural ecosystem.

The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. The group's main objectives are sustainable development and poverty reduction within its member states, as well as their greater integration into the world's economy.

The book contains the texts of the international conference held in Istanbul on October 20, 2015 by the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO (UTNC) for the 10th year of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). Evaluations of the international experts on the implementations of the 2005 Convention over the 10 years, know-how from the public sector managers and as the most important emphasis of the contract, opinions and discussions of the representatives of the cultural industry professional associations in Turkey, creative economy actors and artists have been included in the book.

The book titled Cultural Diplomacy: Arts, Festivals and Geopolitics which was edited by Prof. Milena Dragićević Šešić, Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović and Nina Mihaljinac has recently been published.

On the first day of this year’s meeting on cultural networks, ENCATC The European Network on Cultural Management and Policy which celebrates its 25th anniversary, first held a network session on the current projects and cooperation of the members, then enabled further integration of the group that has been formed and supported by it’s General Assembly. Since Taiwan and the US counterparts, TACPS and AAAE, have also been hosted at ENCATC meetings in the last couple of years, developments in Asia and North America can be brought into debate by the conveyance of stakeholders.  At this year's meeting, the diversity of discussions has increased in the joint sessions with cases from different countries and different cultural policy practices.