Danielle has been involved in most of the ERICarts activities since 1996 as a senior expert, research coordinator or project leader. This includes, but is not limited to a series of projects for the EU (e.g. "Pyramid or Pillars", "Culture Biz" or "Sharing Diversity"), the prominent Council of Europe/ERICarts Compendium information and monitoring system on "Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe", or the "Creative Europe" Report funded by the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation (NEF). In Spring and Summer 2009, her final task at the Institute has been the coordination of a global empirical survey on "Achieving Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts and Culture?" for IFACCA.
In November 2009, Danielle has taken up her new position at UNESCO, where she is now Chief of Section, Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Her vast experience and never ending dedication to the work of the ERICarts Institute will be deeply missed. On the other hand, ERICarts' Board of Governors and staff are proud of this perfect choice for an important position in the domain of international cultural cooperation.
In line with old Rhineland traditions, Executive Director Andreas Wiesand was forced to surrender his symbol of male dignity to ERICarts intern Sari Asikainen on Womens' Carnival day ("Weiberfastnacht"), 11 February 2010. Our picture includes Office Manager Olivier Göbel and Compendium Webmaster J Torkler (in the back) who, having escaped the massacre, did not hide their malicious glees.
As usual, this strange ritual could also find different interpretations: maybe it was simply a rehearsal for the inauguration ceremony of the European Folk Cultures Survey, the ERICarts Institute is now conducting together with its new partner organisation Boekman Foundation, Amsterdam (Boekmanstichting).
In preparation for the 2008 UNESCO World Report on Cultural Diversity, the ERICarts Institute assembled information and data on how cultural diversity is interpreted in national cultural policy frameworks and structures in Europe. Country specific information can be found online through the Council of Europe/ERICarts: Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, 8th edition, 2007.
More information on the goals, the proposed conceptual framework and the main activities leading to the realisation of the 2008 UNESCO World Report is available from the UNESCO website. It provides a list of the members of the advisory committee of experts and board of governors responsible for the report.
In 2006, the ERICarts Institute has produced a comparative study for the European Parliament on the economic and social frameworks for artists in Europe, with particular emphasis placed on mobility issues. The study identified common challenges facing artists with regard to labour, tax and social security legislation and innovative measures which countries have adopted to help artists overcome these challenges. Members of the research team were: Suzanne Capiau, Danielle Cliche, Vesna Čopič, Ritva Mitchell and Andreas Wiesand.
The study is available for download in English and in French. An additional paper was prepared by team member Suzanne Capiau on "Mobilité des artistes et securité sociale".
In 2007/2008, the study has fuelled debates and proposals on the situation of artists and the mobility of cultural professionals in the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.
Dynamics, Causes and Consequences of Transborder Mobility in the European Arts and Culture
The ERICarts Institute has finalised a pilot project on the dynamics, causes and consequences o
The ERICarts Institute is a research partner in the EU funded "Gateway to Cultural Co-operation Project (G2CC)". It is one of four co-organising partners together with the European Cultural Foundation/LAB, Fondazionne Fitzcarraldo (FF), and On the Move Association (OTM). The G2CC project aims at analysing and disseminating information and knowledge on cross-border and transnational cultural cooperation in Europe. More information available from the Projects Section.
Workshop organised in partnership with the ALTERNE Project at the Wimbledon School of Arts and the European Cultural Parliament. Its main purpose was to begin mapping the main issues concerning intellectual property rights regimes within the context of the current practices and conditions of artists who are working with the new technologies either as a means of distribution or as a main tool for contemporary creation. The final report can be downloaded from the Projects Section.
Locating Women as Film and Book Publishing Professionals in Europe
15 month transnational project undertaken in partnership with Finn-EKVIT (Helsinki), Mediacult (Vienna), Observatório das Actividades Culturais (Lisbon) and the Zentrum für Kulturforschung (Bonn). Users can download results from the project website: http://www.gender-research.net.
As a preparation for the 4th IFACCA World Summit on Arts and Culture 2009 in Johannesburg, the ERICarts Institute contributed the pilot survey Achieving Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts and Culture? Concepts, Policies, Programmes, Practices. The report mapped views from all parts of the world and collected cases of good practice on the (potential) role of intercultural dialogue in arts policies.
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