Target group:

Advanced students, young scholars, young cultural administrators, NGOs and other candidates active in the field of cultural management from Eastern and Western European countries.

Cost: € 1.000,- (scholarships can be applied for, see application form for details)

Issues to be covered:

• some history: Europe around 1989 and the following changes
• definitions, models and instruments of cultural policy
• examples of cultural policy development in Eastern and Western European countries (comparative approach: legislation, funding, problem of decentralization and desetatization) 
• international organizations and culture: the Council of Europe and its former and current priorities, UNESCO, cultural policy of the EU
• culture in the market economy/ civil society and cultural policy/ international cultural cooperation / cultural industries / contemporary art
• national cultural policies and European perspectives
• mass media: shift from traditional tools to new technologies

Applications:

• Application letter including the applicant's full name, date of birth, gender, nationality, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, educational background, degrees received and current affiliation;
• Evidence of substantial English language skills (certificate of proficiency or statement by an English speaking faculty member);
• Essay of about 600 words on development of culture & cultural policy in your home country.

To be submitted to: International Cultural Centre, Rynek Główny 25, 31-008 Kraków, Poland. Tel.: +48 12 / 4242800, 4242811; Fax: +48 12 / 4218571, 4217844, E-mail: sekret@mck.krakow.pl.