Professor Pau Rausell Köster, director of Economics Applied to Culture Research Unit of the Universitat de València (Econcult), has been hired by the European Commission to participate in the management of a scientific team which will develop a culture advice programme in ten cities and regions of the Union, which will be selected by some experts.
This project is funded with a million euros by the European Commission included in the Creative Europe Programme (DG EAC), which will be extended until summer 2017. Along with Rausell, Phillipe Kern (KEA) and Julie Hervé (EUROCITIES) participate in the scientific management of the committee which advise these European cities.
The project aims to, on the one side, identify good practices about the integration of supporting policies for cultural activities in the whole European Union. On the other side, it will try to help cities and regions to improve their cultural strategy through coaching and personal advice.
Functions of this team of the Universitat de València are: select cases studies and write an initiatives catalogue (among seventy and one hundred), prepare and encourage study visits to the thirty preselected cities, monitoring of those study visits, coaching monitoring with the last ten chosen participants, participate in spreading activities and participate in the writing of the final report. “We are very honoured that an important committee want us to participate as main experts, and this fact shows that Econcult Research Unit, with a career of almost twenty years, has a scientific level equivalent to European standards of excellence”, Pau Rausell has pointed out.
EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities. It was founded in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam. Nowadays, this network brings together the local governments of over one hundred and thirty of Europe’s largest cities and forty partner cities, which govern over one hundred and thirty millions of citizens across thirty-five countries.
Founded in 2001, ERRIN is a Brussels-based platform of regions. It is aimed to strengthen regional Research and Innovation capacities by exchanging information, sharing best practice, supporting project development and policy shaping. ERRIN helps regions get their voice heard in Brussels.
KEA European Affairs is a Brussels-based research and advisory company. KEA is recognised as one of the leading firms in cultural and creative knowledge in Europe. One of its most known works is the study “The Economy of Culture in Europe“.
Last update: 21 de january de 2015 07:00.
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