1-3 December 2020  Remote participation  Tweet #oecdculture Tweet #EuropeForCulture  

What is the issue?

The direct and indirect impacts of culture on local development are largely achieved through cultural participation and access of diverse groups of population to cultural amenities and activities. Cultural participation is linked to a number of areas of social and economic impact: social inclusion, education and life-long learning, well-being and health. High levels of cultural participation might be conducive to a favourable social environment for cultural and creative entrepreneurship, thereby enhancing the impact of cultural and creative production on job creation.

In many cities and regions, cultural participation and specialisations in the cultural and creative sectors are evolving, and being used to tackle and societal challenges (e.g. climate change) from new angles, favouring resilience, skills creation and prosocial behavioural changes. High levels of cultural participation also create the premises for a stronger support of cultural spending and cultural policies from the public opinion, thus contributing to the financial and social sustainability of cultural and creative sectors.

The OECD-EC Policy Webinar

There is however still a lack of capacity at subnational levels to measure cultural participation and design instruments that can effectively increase it. This policy webinar provided an opportunity to learn from latest academic evidence on the economic and social impacts of cultural participation, approaches to better capture it at regional level and instruments to increase it. The event also showcased a number of interesting European and non-European cases in this regard.                 

Video Highlights

Show me the evidence: what do we know about the impact of cultural participation on local development?

 Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Festivals: Industry Response, Strategies for the Future and Contributions to Recovery

Cultural Participation in the Time of COVID-10 and Beyond

But what is Cultural Participation and (How) Can You Measure it? 

Let’s Take a Deep Dive : Cultural Participation, Well-Being and Health

Let’s Take a Deep Dive : Cultural Participation, Well-Being and Health- Part 2

Let’s Take a Deep Dive : Cultural Participation and Education

Presentations

Agenda

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Contact

Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org

Nadim AHMAD

 Deputy Director, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Julia AMOUR

 Director, Festivals Edinburgh

Victoria ATECA-AMESTOY

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Analysis, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Marta BECK

Responsible for culture and sport statistics, Eurostat‌

Lluis BONET

Director of the Cultural Management Graduate Program, University of Barcelona, Spain

Kathrin DEVENTER

Secretary General, European Festivals Association

Daisy FANCOURT

Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology, University College London

Alberto GARLANDINI

President, International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Maciej HOFMAN

 Cultural Policy Unit, EC DG EAC

Susanne HOLLMANN

Deputy Head, Cultural Policy Unit, EC DG EAC

Justyna JOCHYM

 CEO of Festivals Adelaide, Australia 

Serene LIM

 Director (Policy & Planning), National Arts Council, Singapore.

Catherine MAGNANT

Head, Culture Policy, DG EAC, European Commission DG EAC

Robert PIASKOWSKI Plenipotentiary

of the Mayor of the City of Krakow for culture

Pier Luigi SACCO

 Senior Advisor and Head of the OECD Venice Office

Shain SHAPIRO 

Founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy

Justine SIMONS OBE

Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries, London & Chair of World Cities Culture Forum

Ekaterina TRAVKINA

Co-ordinator - Culture, Creative Industries and Local Development, OECD

Dorota WEZIAK-BIALOWOLSKA

Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. School of Public Health & Research Fellow, Human Flourishing Program, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University 

Piotr Michalowski

Secretary and Board Member of the European Network of Cultural Centres ENCC and Coordinator of the ENCC International Working Group on Territorial Development, gathering experts, animators and policy makers