The Congress, which will be held from the 5 to the 7 October, will have on its first day exclusive sessions for the members of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC), in which the general meeting of ENCATC will be held. 

On Thursday 6 October, the official opening will be carried out by the Principal of the Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo; the president of the Valencian Government, Ximo Puig; and the president of ENCATC, Annick Schramme. As a continuation of that, an opening conference will be carried out by the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality, Antonio Ariño. At noon, the training of the participants will continue with parallel communications and research workshops about topics such as ‘Creative cities’ or ‘Cultural and Education Management’. In the afternoon, participants will be able to closely know Valencia with some cultural visits which have been organized at the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, Palau de les Arts, IVAM or at Centro del Carmen, central office of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community. In the evening, there will be a reception in San Miguel de los Reyes, central office of the Valencian Library Nicolau Primitiu, the General Management of Culture and Heritage of the Valencian Government and the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. 

The third and last day of the congress, on Friday 7 October, the training of the participants will continue with parallel communications. Then, a round table discussion will be held about the transmission of knowledge, where cases of success will be known. The closing of the congress will be carried out by the councillor of Education, Investigation, Culture and Sports, Vicent Marzà; the president of ENCATC, Annick Schramme; and the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality of the Universitat de València, Antonio Ariño, among others. 

After that, the Universitat de València will show the people attending part of the cultural wealth of the Valencian Community and will offer a concert of the Capella de Ministrers in the Assembly Hall of La Nau and a performance of the ‘Tornejants’ and of the ‘Muixeranga’ from Algemesí, which have been declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, in the Cloister of La Nau. 

The attendees will be able to continue knowing the Valencian territory travelling to Sagunto on Saturday 8 October. They will discover the Roman ruins of the ancient ‘Saguntum’, such as the castle, the Roman theatre and the archeological museum. 

During these three days more than 150 professionals of cultural management worldwide are expected in the congress of ENCATC. This will turn the Universitat de València into the thinking centre about management and cultural policies, and ideas will be given for the creation of the ‘knowledge society’, another of the central topics in the exchange of the congress’s points of view. 

For more information, you can download the programme of the congress here: http://links.uv.es/hJuUI4d