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What is the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends? The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends is an online information and monitoring platform, initiated by the Council of Europe and the ERICarts institute in 1998. It is the biggest and only reliable monitoring system for cultural policies in and outside of Europe. The Compendium plays a crucial role in developing knowledge, interaction and exchange in the globalising cultural policy community. It helps policy makers to understand the challenges involved and to formulate their answers. For researchers, students and journalists it functions as a monitoring tool, to detect trends and developments at the earliest possible stage. The Compendium supports the exchange of free information, and therefore the Compendium’s accumulated experience, its intellectual and social capital is at the disposition of policy makers, scholars, students and general audiences all over the world - free of charge. Why become a member of the Compendium? As an Association, the Compendium is only able to maintain its service with the help of members. In order to maintain our information exchange platform Culturalpolicies.net as well as our community of practice (consisting of around a hundred cultural policy experts), we are grateful to every Ministry dealing with culture, every NGO, university and cultural organisation that is willing to join our Association and share in our mission. Members of the Compendium Association contribute directly to the development of the Compendium as a body of knowledge, to keeping its cultural policy profiles up to date, to exchanging cultural policy expertise internationally and to the enhancement of the Compendium´s online platform Culturalpolicies.net. The Compendium is ambitious in its plans for expansion as well as for its new website and will be much better equipped to realise these goals with the support of members. This support is of vital importance to our platform, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Benefits Becoming a member of the Compendium gives parties access to our network of international and renowned cultural policy researchers. It poses the possibility of collaborating on shared publications or research projects, both in and outside of Europe. Members become a part of the Association´s communications service and are invited to the Compendium´s annual General Assembly, during which cutting edge topics in the cultural policy field are addressed. And, honour where honour is due, they are acclaimed for their support on the Membership page of Culturalpolicies.net and credited in the publication of joint research projects. Types of membership The Compendium Association has three categories of membership: permanent members, stakeholder members and standing members. The permanent membership status is confined to two parties, our founders, the Council of Europe and the European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, ERICArts. The primary kind of membership to the Compendium Association is Stakeholder membership, in which Ministries of Culture can be represented directly, or by a national institute that will act as a liaising party. Please find more information on the differences between the memberships in this table, and on: www.culturalpolicies.net/membership How to join Interested in becoming a member of the Association of the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends? Please contact any member of the Compendium Association´s Board or its Service Provider via: office@ culturalpolicies.net. Feel free to also contact us with any inquiries by telephone: 0031-20-6243739. We would gladly provide you with more information. After stating your interest in becoming a member, you will be provided with an information pack, after which an agreement will be made regarding the type of membership, the commencing date and the payment procedure. Current members Stakeholders: Austria, Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Belgium/Kunstenpunt/CFWB, Croatia, Cyprus, European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Finland/Cupore, France, Germany/KuPoGe, Latvia, The Netherlands, Romania/Culturadata, Sweden/Kulturanalys Norden, Switzerland/Bak (In preparation: Albania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Monaco, amongst others) Standing members: European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES) Permanent members: Council of Europe, ERICarts Sponsors: The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands Achievements since becoming an Association (in October 2017) 17 countries / parties have become members. 6 country profiles have been updated: Finland (short profile) Georgia, Macedonia, The Netherlands (short profile), Serbia, Switzerland. Four more will follow shortly: Estonia, Scotland, Slovak Republic, Spain. A pilot project to renew the Compendium´s methodological grid (on which the cultural policy profiles are based) has been initiated and will be adopted shortly. The Compendium´s first General Assembly as an Association was held (from October 9-11th) in Rijeka, Croatia – and was very well received by all attending parties. The content on the Compendium´s online platform Culturalpolicies.net was subjected to an accuracy review and will be renewed further before the end of the year. A new strategy for communications was initiated, resulting in the frequent publication of news items on culturalpolicies.net and Facebook, the relaunch of the Compendium´s YouTube channel and separate newsletters for the different Compendium communities. Before the end of the year, 8 cultural policy profiles from the Arab region will be published on Culturalpolicies.net; a project in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Plans for the near future The Compendium´s Service Providing team has recently taken the first steps in its website renewal project. A web development party will be selected shortly and further research (also amongst Compendium users) will result in a step-by-step plan towards the relaunch of the new Compendium website that is planned for the fall of 2019. The renewal of the first Compendium country profiles along the lines of the new methodological grid, is also scheduled for next year, as well as the inclusion of a selection of Asian cultural policy profiles, in collaboration with the Asia-Europe Foundation. The Compendium Association´s second General Assembly is planned to be held in Paris, next June.