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- Library / Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate ActionImagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action is a manifesto that provides key messages on culture and climate change aimed at the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) and beyond.
- Library / International Cultural RelationsThis document represents a collection of topics, recommendations, tangible steps and project ideas drawn from the Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue on international cultural relations in February 2022.
- Library / Time to Act: How Lack of Knowledge in the Cultural Sector Creates Barriers for Disabled Artists and AudiencesSpanning 42 countries, Time To Act provides the first transnational evidence that lack of knowledge in the mainstream cultural sector is a key barrier preventing disabled artists and arts professionals participating equally in European culture.
- Library / A Safety Guide for ArtistsWhen an artist first faces risk, there are not a lot of roadmaps: the experience can be incredibly isolating and disorienting. ARC - Artists at Risk Connection’s A Safety Guide for Artists explores topics such as defining and understanding risk, preparing for threats, fortifying digital safety, documenting persecution, finding assistance, and recovering from trauma.
- Library / Policy Guide for a Resilient Creative SectorThe COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis it created have had a devastating effect on the cultural and creative industries, revealing and magnifying their pre-existing volatility. Culture in Crisis offers advice on how to respond to the most pressing needs and how to induce the structural changes needed to strengthen the resilience of the cultural and creative industries and prepare for the ‘new normal’.
- Library / Freedom & Creativity: Defending Art, Defending DiversityFreedom & Creativity: Defending Art, Defending Diversity is a special edition of the Global Report series that monitors the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. It focuses on one of the Convention’s overarching goals: the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms and, in particular, artistic freedom.
- Library / Supporting Culture in the Digital AgePrepared between November 2019 and March 2020, Supporting Culture in the Digital Age explores how the digital age has changed the cultural value chain. It draws on existing literature and insights provided by national members of IFACCA – the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, as well as a range of actors from across the cultural ecosystem.
- Library / Policy & Research Series on Cultural Policy and GovernanceUNESCO’s Policy & Research series examines emerging trends in cultural policy and governance, and offers an in-depth analysis of key topics to reveal today’s policy landscape. In doing so, it aims to inspire cultural policymakers and advocates to make innovative, evidence-based decisions that stimulate the growth of dynamic creative sectors around the world.
- Library / The challenges of cultural relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean / Retos de las relaciones culturales entre la Unión Europea y América Latina y el CaribeThe present book is one of the results of EULAC Focus research project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, focused on the cultural, scientific and social dimension of relationships between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). El presente libro es uno de los resultados del proyecto de investigación EULAC Focus, financiado por el programa Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea, centrado en la dimensión cultural, científica y social de las relaciones entre la Unión Europea y la Comunidad de Estados de América Latina y el Caribe.
- Library / Construir el relato artístico para la movilidadConstruir el relato artístico para la movilidad es una guía práctica para profundizar en la creación de una narrativa de la actividad cultural o artística propia, de manera que sea completa, sintética, rigurosa y, a la vez, diferenciada. Un relato que sirva a las organizaciones de las artes en vivo presentar sus proyectos de una manera global, a audiencias desconocedoras de él, pero potenciales socios, clientes, colaboradores o financiadores.
- Library / Crossing Borders: A Guide for Musicians and Ensembles Travelling with Musical Instruments Containing Protected SpeciesThis guide, by PEARLE* and the International Federation of Musicians, is for musicians and ensembles travelling with musical instruments containing species protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered (CITES). Languages: EN, FR, ES and DE.
- Library / UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report: Re-Shaping Cultural PoliciesThe Global Report assesses the impact of the most recent policies and measures taken around the world to implement the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, now ratified by 145 States and the European Union. Read the report and in particular the section ‘Surviving the paradoxes of mobility’ written by Khadija El Bennaoui.