01-02-2023 CICERONE Policy Forum 23 Mach 2023

CICERONE has entered its final stages. Its empirical work has been finished, about which we will soon report in a series of blogs.

In this final project stage, we will translate our empirical findings into policy implications. As part of this translation, we will be hosting a Policy Forum in Brussels on 23 March 2023. During this forum, which is the culmination of a series of workshops which we held earlier with heads of trade associations and representatives of the cultural and creative sectors involved in EU policy-making. the CICERONE team presents its policy relevant findings to representatives from the European Parliament, civil servants from the European Commission (DG Grow, DG Connect, DGEAC, DG Research), representatives of member states dealing with culture,  and organisations representing cities and regions, as well as experts from Eurostat, the AV observatory, and the OECD.

During the Policy Forum, we will highlight our specific production network approach, how this approach opens up news ways of understanding the CCS, and how such new perspective potentially impacts policy support for the CCS.

Catherine Magnant, Head of the Cultural Policy Unit of the European Commission, Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, will open the Forum with an introductory speech on EU Policy Making and the Cultural and Creative Sectors: challenges and issues. 

Prof. Robert Kloosterman, Principal Investigator of the CICERONE project, will present a network perspective on the CCS and, together with Prof. Dominic Power, highlight how such perspective could be the basis for a multi-level policy framework cutting across the traditional CCS silos.

Dr. Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway will talk about the role of the local ecosystem in such framework, while Philippe Kern and Josep Maria Folch (both from KEA), will shed light on how it could possibly affect CCS representation and existing policy networks.

Prof. Andy C. Pratt will pitch a first version of a pilot for a Cultural Economy Observatory, an interactive platform showcasing the project’s new “lens” for seeing the CCS, which is expected to be launched in June ’23.

The Policy Forum will close with a panel discussion.