The Universitat de València, through its General Foundationl, takes in through the collaboration agreement the Office for the Cultural Recovery Post-DANA (ORC) that coordinates Cultural Management. Associació Valenciana de Professionals de la Cultura by direct assignment of Ministry of Culture.

This collaboration takes place through the cession of a work space, with residence in the building of the General Foundation UV (Amadeo de Saboya 4, Valencia), where the Office for the Cultural Recovery (ORC) that realises tasks of advice, monitors and analysis of the aids that had arisen because of the situation experienced by the cultural sector after the losses caused by the DANA path las 29 October.

Moreover, the ORC is in charge to evaluate the proper needs of the valencian cultural sector that have been or not covered by the aids and can be and may be at risk.

In words of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society, Ester Alba, executive vice-president of the General Foundation of the Universitat de València, “in these difficult times, the Universitat de València has to be with the people and, on this matter, culture is fundamental: the cultural sector has been gravely affected by the DANA and from our university we are collaborating wherever it is needed and where we are required, with organisations like the Office for the Cultural Post-DANA, which has an important role, by direct assignment of the Ministry of Culture, the support and recovery of these professional sector”.

Furthermore, the president of the Cultural Management, José Ayelo, has highlighted “the agreement generated by all the professional sector of performing arts, visuals and music for our association to carry out the work of the Office for the Culture Recovery”. A fact that “puts in value all the valencian cultural sector that, in a cross-sectional way, recognises the structural damages caused by the catastrophe, but above all the emotional damage that professionals of the culture are suffering, who we want to accompany to support them in their physical and mental effort on the boards; maybe this will be the most important task done from the Office”.

Cultural Management, composed by more than 120 associates, has received this direct assignment of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the ORC now brings together nearly twenty culture associations of performing arts, music, art, and audiovisual, which are giving them cover for its recuperation.

Its goal is shared, in the same way, with the Universitat de València: promote culture in the field of the Comunitat before the situation provoked by the floods of the DANA in the provinces of Valencia, which has also affected the cultural agents.

Thus, both the Universitat and Cultural Management Associació Valenciana de Professionals de la Cultura work putting in common their means and offering mutual support to favour their respective ends in cultural matter.