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On the evening of 18 September 2014, Elodie Bordat from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence in France was announced as the winner of the 2014 ENCATC Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Research Award for her outstanding PhD Thesis “The Dynamics of Changes in Public Policy. A Comparative Historical Analysis of Mexican and Argentine Cultural Policies.”

The ceremony to bestow the ENCATC Award for the best recent PhD Thesis on comparative cultural policies or management topics presented by a young researcher was held in Brno, Czech Republic and organised in the framework of the 22

nd ENCATC Annual Conference “New

Challenges for Arts and Culture: Is it just about money?” (17-19 September 2014). In attendance were the Award’s international jury and two members of the Award’s Steering Committee: Anupama Sekhar, Acting/Deputy Director of the Culture Department at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), and Alan Salzenstein, President of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE). Also in the audience were researchers, academics, arts and culture professionals, policy makers, artists and students from Europe, North and South America, and Asia.

On behalf of the Award’s international jury Annick Schramme, President of ENCATC and President of the ENCATC Award jury said: “The jury selected the winning PhD Thesis for its solid theoretical approach and methodological awareness, strong comparative perspective, and original topic. Furthermore, the jury believes Elodie Bordat’s unique and interesting research will contribute to new cultural policy orientations and be applicable for both practitioners and scholars.”

The Award was given by, Mgr. Miroslav Rovenský, vice-minister, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Ing. Michaela Šojdrová, vice-chair Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament, both extremely committed to supporting excellence in cultural policy and cultural management research.

The winner was extremely honoured and appreciative of the jury’s recognition: “It is an honour for me to receive the ENCATC Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Research Award. I would like to sincerely thank ENCATC and members of the Award’s international jury for this incredible recognition and opportunity to have my PhD Thesis published by Peter Lang for an international audience. I would also like to express

2014 ENCATC Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Re-search awarded to Elodie Bordat

Fostering excellence in cultural policy and cultural management research.

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The 2014 Award winner with the Award’s international jury mmbers in Brno, Czech Republic on the evening of 18 September.

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my gratitude to everyone who contributed to my research, especially all the cultural professionals and other stakeholders who so kindly accepted to answer my questions,” said Elodie Bordat.

“The relevance of the Elodie Bordat’s PhD thesis encompasses policy, practical and political aspects. This work is extremely important for advancing the debate in the field of heritage cultural policy in Latin America and it offers future researchers and academics an impressive bibliography on cultural policy and beyond,” said ENCATC Secretary General, GiannaLia Cogliandro Beyens.

Alongside the 2014 ENCATC Award winner were two shortlisted finalists: Emma Blomkamp representing Australia and New Zealand for her PhD thesis “Meaning and Measures of Urban Cultural Policy: Art, Local Government and Community Wellbeing” and Luisa Fernanda Gutierrez-Navratil from Spain for her PhD thesis “Competition in the Movie Industry: Releasing Dates and Theatre Allocations as Strategic Variables”.

The ENCATC Award exists to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy and management to explore, through comparative and cross-cultural research, issues at stake in contemporary Europe, Asia and the Americas, and possibly anticipate new cultural policy orientations. Moreover, it will to contribute to the process of creating an "infrastructure", a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research projects in cultural policy and management issues.

The winning PhD thesis will be translated into English and published in the 2015 ENCATC Book Series produced by the international publishing house Peter Lang.

To learn more about the ENCATC Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Research Award: http://encatc.org/pages/index.php?id=373

For Award ceremony photos: http://encatc.org/pages/index.php?id=378

The ENCATC Award jury members are:

Annick Schramme, Jury President, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Franco Bianchini, Jury Member, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Lluís Bonet, Jury Member, University of Barcelona, Spain

Jacques Bonniel, Jury Member, University of Lyon II, France

Anita Kangas, Jury Member, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Jerry C Y Liu, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

Richard Maloney, Boston University, United States

Jaime Alberto Ruiz Gutierrez, University of Los Andes, Colombia

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Annual ENCATC Research Session

Promoting access to cutting-edge research to anticipate the future and

better understand the past

18 September 2014 // Brno, Czech Republic

On 18 September, 21 academics, researchers, trainers and cultural professionals from 11 countries in Europe and beyond presented papers at the 5

th Annual ENCATC Research Session held

in Brno and organised in the framework of the 22nd

ENCATC Annual Conference “New Challenges for the Arts and Culture: Is it just about money?” (17-19 September 2014).

Organised into four parallel sessions, topics of this year’s research session included: audience development, cultural policy, marketing and tourism management, heritage, museums, libraries and institutional memory. This was an excellent opportunity for other academics, researchers, arts and cultural operators, students, policy makers, and artists to get the latest research developments and gain new perspectives and insights into the field of cultural management and policy. Questions and discussions were led by chairs who are academics and experts in their respective culture and art related field.

Next, authors of the papers presented in Brno will be invited to submit their final work to the ENCATC Journal of Cultural Management and Policy.

Previous editions of the Annual ENCATC Research Session have been organised in Antwerp (2013), London (2012), Helsinki (2011), and Brussels (2010). Since its launch in 2010, more than 100 researchers, academics, and cultural professionals have presented their work. While attracting researchers and academics from institutions from across Europe, the Research Session has also brought experts from Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and the United States.

ENCATC’s dedication to sharing, exchanging and reflecting on these topics proves once more the network’s aim to strengthen the European research area and build knowledge societies.

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On 10 September in Hildesheim, Germany, ENCATC held a thematic session entitled: “Cultural Policy Research and Professionalization of Cultural Sector (or Intersectoral cooperation in Cultural Policy Research and Teaching)” and organised in the framework of the 8

th International Conference

on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR). Attended by more than more than 400 researchers, academics, scholars, and cultural professionals, this thematic session aimed to discuss where and how academic research findings and practice from the cultural intersect. More specifically, this was an opportunity to question: How does research help cultural operators improve their performance in the work place and in practice? How does cultural policy research influence teaching, training, consultancy, and decision making processes? What about its influence on quality of staff involvement in institutions, organisations, city halls, governance bodies, and enterprises? How is this translated when looking at a wide range of cultural professions from different geographic origins?

The panel, chaired by ENCATC President, Annick Schramme, professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium gathered insight and expertise from leading academics and researchers from Europe: Milena Dragićević Šešić, professor, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia; Carla Figueira, ENCATC board member and lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom; and Marcin Poprawski, ENCATC vice-president and researcher, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

The points for discussion on the agenda included: The relationship between the research and the cultural sector (needs, professionalisation, transfer of knowledge); The relationship between the research and the policy makers (policy based research, influencing or not the decision making process, spread of knowledge by policymakers and academics (valorization); and The relationship between research and education, required competences.

“Cultural Policy Research and Professionalisation of the Cultural

Sector”

Intersectorial cooperation for cultural policy research and teaching

10 September 2014 // Hildesheim, Germany