Culture, the heart of a knowledge-based economy: the strategic use of culture in the European project is a new publication commissioned by the European Cultural Parliament, a report responding to the Lisbon Agenda.
The Lisbon Agenda report, “Culture, the heart of a knowledge-based economy: the strategic use of culture in the European project”, completed by ECP Lisbon Agenda Research Group in Tuscany, July 2006
The document outlines the central role that culture ought to play in the formulation of an agenda for the future of Europe. As the result of a research project, undertaken by the ECP Lisbon Agenda Research Group of the European Cultural Parliament, it describes the opportunities for a new and essentially strategic use of culture. This new development may contribute to the economic, social and educational transformation that is shaping the new Europe. Recent examples show such strategic uses of culture already developing in different domains of society. It is our conviction that the Community should recognize this and act on it to allow culture to play an essential role in the fulfilment of its fundamental aims and ideals.