ICCPR 2006 – Review

First Reactions

"Thank you so much for everything during the conference. The organisation was perfect and the atmosphere very nice."
Keynote speaker Vincent Dubois

"My sincere thanks to you and all the members of your team who enabled us to take the best out of the ICCPR2006."
Malgorzata Sternal

"Thank you for your perfect organization, kindness, rich hospitality and opportunity to debate Turkey 's perspective with colleagues. This is all much appreciated and I hope we shall work again together."
Dragan Klaic

"Congratulations on an excellently organised conference! Thank you also for your hospitality."
Jo Caust

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The 4th International Conference on Cultural Policy (iccpr) was held from 12 to 16 July 2006 in Vienna , Austria . More than 400 participants from 52 countries met to talk about trends, practices, instruments and schemes in the field of cultural policy.

As with the previous conferences, our aim was to improve the quality and credibility of cultural policy research and to help advance the effectiveness of the iccpr network.


Vibrant discussions und public debate

The conference offered the opportunity to take part in an international and interdisciplinary review of the status of cultural policy research worldwide. Participants could hear eminent speakers from different disciplines dealing with culture and the arts. It seems, this conference took us one step closer to our goal to interrelate worldwide cultural policy research in a sustainable way.

Following the numerous positive feedbacks, we, as organizers, have reached our objectives, to enable a vibrant and manifold expert discussion. And it was also possible to initiate a public discussion, hence art and culture and the way it is dealt with concerns us all. Thus we are very pleased that we could raise the interest of the media for iccpr. The conference was accompanied by valuable newspaper, online and radio contributions with several live interviews.

Media reports on iccpr 2006 - some examples

	ORF Radio Ö1 "Kultur aktuell", 13.07.06 (Windows Media Player, 2.4 MB)
	ORF Radio Ö1 „Kulturjournal“, interview with Hans Abbing, 13.07.06 (Windows Media Player, 2 KB) -- coming soon --
	APA (Austria Press Agency) "Neue Kompetenzen für Kulturarbeit", 17.07.06 (Word, 32 KB)
	Der Standard, Politics, "Kongress zur Kulturpolitik: Europäischen Schleier der Ignoranz lüften", 14.07.06
	science.orf.at, "Wie Kultur-Participation entsteht", 14.07.06

All aspects of cultural policy research

During the conference, 210 reports of current research findings were presented in 58 parallel abstract sessions dealing with all aspects of cultural policy research. Many of them were dedicated issues of the political implications of cultural policy research and for the first time also the aspect of cultural participation was presented and discussed.

Furthermore six panel discussions dealing with relevant cultural policy research topics were held. The discussions turned out to be lively and well attended debates thanks to our renowned speakers, as well as prominent moderators which were Franco Bianchini, Mercedes Echerer, Oliver Bennett, Albrecht Goeschl,  Milena Dragicevic-Sesic or Mark Schuster. Topics of high interest were for example “The Turkish cultural policy and its role in the European accession negotiations”, “The role of multinational institutions like UNESCO or the European Council in the cultural transfer”, or “The relationship between politicians and scientists”. This platform of information exchange certainly proved of value. Within this framework also fundamental questions like the objectiveness of science or controversies between basic and applied researchers were raised.

CPR-Award 2006

At the closing of the conference the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA), funded by the European Cultural Foundation and the Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, was awarded to Marcello M. Mariani from the University of Bologna, Italy, for the proposed research project “Live Classical Music Organisations in Europe: an international comparison of financial, corporate governance and organisational structures”. Congratulations to the young laureate!

Looking ahead – iccpr 2008

In his closing statement Per Mangset from the Telemark University of Bø invited the participants to think about the next iccpr conference in 2008. Proposals to organise the conference from all over the world are highly welcome.

ICCPR Photo Gallery

Previous Conferences

• The First International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (iccpr 1999) was held in Bergen, Norway in November 1999. About 140 researchers from 17 countries attended the conference. 60 papers were presented. A selection of papers was subsequently published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy (Vol. 7, No 1 and Vol. 7, No 2).
• The Second International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (iccpr 2002) took place in Wellington, New Zealand in January 2002. 192 researchers attended the conference. More than 100 papers were presented. A selection of papers was subsequently published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy (Vol. 8, No 2 and Vol. 9, No 1)
• The Third International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (iccpr 2004) was held in Montreal, Canada in August 2004. About 115 researchers attended the conference and about 60 papers were presented. Additional information about iccpr 2004 is available on: http://www.hec.ca/iccpr /