Working Priorities
ENO Denmark is working to promote better bridge-building between research, innovative practice and policy in the field of arts education, especially with a focus on interculturality and intercultural relations.
Network meetings
Since 2015 ENO Denmark has organised a number of national meetings also including the National Commission for UNESCO.
The next meeting is planned for September 2023 to discuss UNESCO’s revised Framework for Culture and Arts Education and Denmark’s contribution and ideas to follow up on UNESCO’s 3rd World Conference on Culture and Arts Education planned for December 2023.
Research and development of innovative practices
From 2017 – 2020 the CICLO program was followed up by ENO Denmark with a combined research and innovative practice project called “Arts-integrated, intercultural and embodied learning in multicultural schools” in cooperation with the Municipality of Copenhagen and the Western Cape Education Department in South Africa, involving local arts education organisation, schools and arts education researchers in the two countries. Results of this project are published among others in the ENO Yearbook 2:
Svendler Nielsen, C., Samuel, G.M., Vadim, P., Hartman, L., Hartzenberg, F. & Gerlach-Hansen, O. (2021). A microtopia of arts education: International sustainable development policy brought to live in an educational project involving institutions in South Africa and Denmark (pp.173-193). In E. Wagner, C. Svendler Nielsen, L. Veloso, A. Suominen & N. Pachova (Eds.), Arts. Sustainability. Education: European Network of Observatories in Arts and Cultural Education Yearbook 2. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
A European independent expert assessed the project in the context of the Danish Cultural Institute’s European network, and confirmed the value of this type of arts education for the students themselves increasing quality of education in violence stricken schools and being of direct value to serious societal challenges & SDGs.
Amongst priorities for 2023-24 are to map research, practice and policy institutions that focus on arts education in DK.
Publications
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen was co-editor of ENO Yearbook 2 and of a special issue of Culture Crossroadspublished by the Latvian Academy of Culture which included articles based on some of the presentations of the ENO Conference on Impacts of Arts Education hosted on-line by Latvian ENO members in 2021.
Priorities for 2023-24 are to urge Danish researchers in the field to contribute to ENO’s yearbooks and to contribute to ENO’s website repository with lists of Danish researchers’ publications on arts education and reports published in the field.
Partner Institutions
ENO Denmark is led by representatives from the University of Copenhagen (Associate Professor, Dr. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Dept. of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports) and the Danish Cultural Institute (Strategic Advisor, Olaf Gerlach-Hansen) in cooperation.
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen was member of the Cultural Committee and later Advisory Board of the Danish National Commission of UNESCO from 1996 to 2016. The partners of ENO Denmark came together based on a UNESCO National Commission co-led program called CICLO, drawing on results of the 2nd World Conference on Arts Education in Seoul 2010, and with the aim of testing key elements of the Seoul Agenda through Danish-International pilots with schools, artists and authorities from 2011-15.
ENO Denmark is an informal network, agreed to be so when it was established in 2015. It involves representatives from universities, national agencies, cultural institutions, and associations focused on different art forms.
Contacts:
Website: http://www.dankultur.dk/
Website: http://nexs.ku.dk/
Central Contact Person for ENO Denmark
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
University of Copenhagen
@mail: csnielsen (at) nexs.ku.dk