Encouraging news for cultural education in the Netherlands: Effective December 1, 2023, ENO member Edwin van Meerkerk has been appointed Professor of Cultural Education [Cultuureducatie] at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen. ENO sends congratulations and looks forward to further cooperation in the coming years.
Since its establishment in 2015, the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO) has been working in line with global UNESCO-policies and guidelines for education, culture and sustainable development. It has therefore been an aim of the network to connect more directly with UNESCO and it is therefore a great pleasure to announce that ENO has now officially obtained the status of an NGO in partnership with UNESCO (consultative status). As a network of scholars and practitioners dedicated to promoting arts and cultural education by stimulating new research in the field and facilitating the exchange of research findings and innovative practice, this new designation will not only help us to share our expertise in global UNESCO contexts, but also to take an even more active part in research-based advocacy and policymaking. In this context, ENO’scontribution to the consultation process for the new UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education represents a crucial first step towards these important objectives.
Step 1 – Conference Registration:
From November 13-14, 2023, the international conference “youth-action-culture: towards cultural democracy” will be held in Caldas da Rainha, jointly organized by National Plan for the Arts, the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design, the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture Management, Cities and Creativity of the Polytechnic of Leiria and other stakeholders.
>> Click here for more information and registration!
Step 2 – ENO Meeting Registration:
Following the conference, the ENO Member Meeting will be held November 15, 2023 at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.
“Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow” is a Creative Europe project led by ENO Slovenia member Pionirski dom with partners from four countries. One partner is ENO Finland member Association of Finnish Children’s Cultural Centers. This ENO profiled poetry project publishes its first book at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Book includes poems in all original languages (Finnish, Polish, Slovene, Serbian and Hungarian) and in English and German.
During the Frankfurt Book Fair project organizes a series of poetry events in Frankfurt. In poetry performances five poets from different European countries present texts from the new book publication.
Welcome to poetry events in Frankfurt!
More info here: https://pionirski-dom.si/en/news/pionirski-dom-at-frankfurt-book-fair
We are pleased to announce that Issue #1 of the newly established, open-access International Journal for Research in Cultural, Aesthetic, and Arts Education (IJRCAAE), in whose Editorial Board ENO is permanently represented by its current chair person, has just been published. The peer-reviewed journal, published by Waxmann, is edited by the UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Thanks to an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education 7 partner universities from the ENO network have successfully applied for an ERASMUS+ BIP project. In addition to the mandatory online phases, a key component of this collaboration was the realization of a Summer School, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, from July 10-14, 2023. The results of the event will be released in 2024 as part of a joint publication project.
In 2024, for the first time in more than 10 years, UNESCO will hold a World Conference on Culture and Arts Education. The declared goal of this conference is to adopt a new framework for Culture and Arts Education that meets the immense challenges and transformation processes of our time. In the course of preparing this new framework, UNESCO organized a Multistakeholder Dialogue at the end of May 2023, which was also attended by ENO Board members.
