16 March

• Frank and Franco in the wardrobe. Interview with Frank O. Gehry - ABITARE
  Frank Gehry and I had been friends since 1975 when Frank was still not very well known on the international scene and I was exploring new ideas for the 1976 Venice Biennale. But Frank had already started to make a name for himself among the less orthodox Californian architects with the house for his artist friend Ron Davis, with his houses in Malibu and Venice, California and with the Santa Monica Place. Franco Raggi
  More information: http://www.abitare.it/highlights/frank-e-franco-nellarmadio/

• (in French) Liste des projets Chaire UNESCO Unitwin Culture - Tourisme et Developpement. IREST. Paris 1 (France)
  - Le chemin du Colon
  - Le Grand Festival des Ethnies
  - Atlas et carte ethnographique du Paranã
  - Parc Indigène Tekhoha Porã
  - Destinations écologiques en A - L
  - Université Ecologique - TUITI
  - Les Amis de la nature : Programme de responsabilité environnementale
  - Campements écologiques ruraux
  - Mise en oeuvre de la gestion touristique du site d'Angkor-Vat
  - Réseau universitaire croate en tourisme
  - Développement touristique durable de la côte adriatique
  - La mise en tourisme de la culture Bantou
  - Les routes de l'Esclave
  - Animation de réseaux sur l'écotourisme en Afrique subsaharienne
  - Création d'un pôle scientifique universitaire de niveau post-gradué et de dimension régionale au Gabon
  - Création de formation virtuelle post-gradué en "tourisme, culture et développement durable"
  - Mise en tourisme durable du patrimoine culturel du Paraguay
  - Projet de Gestion et de Valorisation du Patrimoine Culturel Tunisien
  More information in French: http://www.univ-paris1.fr/ufr/institut-de-recherche-et-detudes-superieures-du-tourisme/chaire-unesco/activites/liste-des-projets/

15 March

• The Observatory of Cultural Policies-Closing of the Tour of France and of the Europe of the Cultural Policies. Grenoble (France). February, 2010
  On the occasion of its 20 years of existence in 2009, the Observatory of Cultural Policies organized an itinerant event in 12 cities of France and Europe. The events of the Tour of France and of the Europe of the Cultural Policies will take place during the year 2010. Meanwhile, you can find video extracts from the Colloquia and interviews with the participants, including: Terry Clark, lecturer of Sociology at the University of Chicago; Daphné Tepper, policy analyst of European Culture Action; Yves Citton, a Literature theoretician and a philosopher; Mourad Merzouki, choreographer, artistic director of the Käfig company, Simon Brault, President of Montreal Culture, etc
  More information in French: http://colloqueopc20ans.net/

• CULTURE/EU COMMISSION: Who's taking home the European Capital of Culture title in 2015?
  The panel responsible for selecting the European Capitals of Culture for 2015 have recommended that Mons in Belgium should be one of the two cities that will share the title. Its formal nomination by the EU Council of Ministers will take place around November 2010.The Czech Republic will also host a European Capital of Culture in 2015. Its choice will be announced after a final selection meeting in Prague on 8 September 2010.
  More information: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/146&format=HTML

• EDUCATION/EU COUNCIL: Education and training for the Europe of 2020. Bruxelles (Belgium) 15 February 2010
  On 15 February at Brussels, the Council of the European Union discussed the role of education and training in Europe's strategy to promote growth and jobs and underlined its place at the heart of an economy based on knowledge and innovation, against the background of preparations for the new ‘EU 2020’ strategy to replace that of Lisbon. The Council began by adopting the 2010 joint progress report on the implementation of the "Education & Training 2010" programme in the period 2007-2009. Overall, the report shows an improvement in education performance across Europe, with EU policies helping to promote reforms at national level. At the same time, important challenges remain, in particular concerning literacy levels.
  More information: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showFocus.aspx?id=1&focusId=443&lang=en

• EDUCATION/EU COMMISSION: Speech by Commissioner Vassiliou on "Education & Training for the Europe of 2020" Education, Youth & Culture Council of Ministers. Bruxelles (Belgium) 15 February 2010
  Let me first thank the Presidency for providing us with the opportunity to exchange views on the contribution of education and training to the future EU strategy for growth, social inclusion and sustainable development. A great number of jobs have been lost during the crisis and new work places will primarily emerge in areas that need higher skills levels. In 2020, it is estimated that 35% of all jobs will require high qualifications - compared to 29% today. This will mean 15 million more jobs with high qualifications.
  More information: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/
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12 March

• The International Cultural Patronage of Firms: a contribution to public diplomacy
  After 20 years of the introduction of the modern cultural patronage of firms in Spain have gone by, its contribution to cultural and public state diplomacy is described here. The international cultural patronage of Spanish firms presents itself as an important contribution to informal diplomacy within the domain of public diplomacy, due to the elements of relations and communication that the strategic and philanthropic action of firms brings with it. In other countries, the firms that carry out this project are worthy of special consideration. In Spain, this should not be separated from a necessary implementation in the fiscal legislation and it should incorporate the outstanding tools from other neighbouring countries, without forgetting the advocacy aspect of culture, which is practically inexistent in our country and which is necessary especially when it does not seem to provoke the social enthusiasm that it used to in the next past.
  More information in Spanish: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano/contenido
  ?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/zonas_es/lengua+y+cultura/ari17-2010

• Participation in the Anna Lindh Forum 2010 (4-7 March 2010)
  The Anna Lindh Forum 2010 is a major civil society gathering for the promotion of intercultural action across the Mediterranean region organised by the Anna Lindh Foundation in partnership with the European Institute of the Mediterranean, Head of the ALF Spanish Network. Taking place in Barcelona from the 4th to 7th of March 2010, the Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialogue in the Union for the Mediterranean region and to enrich the activities of the forty-three National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
  More information: http://www.euromedalex.org/

• Presentation of the pedagogic team on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  A meeting for the presentation and validation of the “Pedagogic kit on the Diversity of the Cultural Expressions” has taken place in the venue of Interarts in Barcelona with the institutions involved in February 9th. The project, directed by the Division of the Cultural Expressions and Creative Industries of UNESCO, is coordinated by Interarts, in partnership with the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Policy and Cooperation of Girona University. This group of pedagogic materials, which have been elaborated to make young people aware of the importance of the diversity of cultural expressions, will soon be in a pilot phase and will be tested in several Latin American countries.
  More information in French: http://www.interarts.net/en/encurso.php?pag=2&p=326

• PARENTHESIS / CHA:COL - New School of Planning and Architecture (India)
  Our friends from CHA:COL shared with us their urban strategy, PARENTHESIS, with us. When the New School of Planning and Architecture decide to relocate an institution, CHA:COL imagined this new school as an interconnected whole where the plan connects disparate structures with the natural environment. Set in India, the country already has a rich history of education that synthesizes the exterior with the interior, so CHA:COL’s strategy enforces this pedagogical mentality.
  More information: http://www.archdaily.com/52379/parenthesis-chacol/

• UNESCO Associated Schools mobilize for the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
  Intercultural dialogue at school level will be the focus of the Third Collection of UNESCO Associated Schools’ Good Practices for Quality Education to be published later this year.
  Mondialogo School Contest students during the International Symposium in Beijing, China, 2008. The theme has been chosen to reflect UNESCO’s lead role in celebrating 2010 as The International Year of Rapprochement of Cultures. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, called on all UNESCO’s partners, among them UNESCO Associated Schools, to mobilize for the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, with the purpose of
  • campaigning for dialogue and mutual knowledge
  • fostering respect for each other’s culture
  • breaking down the barriers between different cultures through exchange and dialogue as the best tools for building peace.

  A number of countries, among them Chile, Costa Rica and Oman have already announced activities to be carried out in cooperation with the UNESCO Associated Schools Network.
  More information: http://www.unesco.org/en/education/dynamic-content-single-view/news/unesco_associated_schools_mobilize_for_the_international_
  year_for_the_rapprochement_of_cultures/back/9195/cHash/8c25642ba2/

11 March

• Journal of Intercultural Studies - Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (Australia)
  The Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation will host the Journal of Intercultural Studies as its signature publication for the next three years. Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), JIS is an international & interdisciplinary publication that particularly encourages contributions from scholars in cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, political science, cultural geography, urban studies, race and ethnic studies; it showcases innovative scholarship about emerging cultural formations, intercultural negotiations and contemporary challenges to cultures and identities. If you would like please contact Ms Paula Muraca - paula.muraca@deakin.edu.au
  More information: http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/ccg/jis.php

8 March

• UNESCO Exhibition on Creativity and Design UNESCO (Lebanon)
  A cultural exhibition was launched on March 4th, 2010 at the Holy Spirit University (USEK) in Lebanon. The exhibition portrays artistic handicrafts made by young designers who attended two workshops conducted by UNESCO Beirut and USEK.
  More information: http://www.unesco.org/en/beirut/single-view/news/
  unesco_exhibition_on_creativity_and_design/back/9437/cHash/dc270c9268/

• Invitation: UNESCO-Beirut: Book launch on the occasion of Beirut World Book Capital 2009
  UNESCO Beirut launched a new book on 16 March 2010, entitled “So I Can Transfer You Into My World” under the patronage of the Lebanese Minister of Culture. The publishing of the book is in cooperation with "Maison du Livre". The book which is written by Sanna Chibani in Arabic language, comes as a result of a special writing workshop that was organized in 2009. The workshop targeted some twenty children books' writers and illustrators. The theme of the workshop was “How to tackle diversity in books for youth”.
  More information: http://www.unesco.org/en/beirut/single-view/news/including_
  cultural_diversity_in_childrens_books/back/9437/cHash/816ef6e164/

• Urban sustainable living, a lecture by Patti Moreno. Boston (USA)
  The Boston Society of Architects lecture series on architecture and the built environment illuminates the ways in which all of us shape the design of our neighborhoods and cities, and the profound impact design has on our communities and the way in which we live. Patti “Garden Girl” Moreno, a writer and television host in Roxbury, Massachusetts, spoke on urban organic gardening at a recent BSA presentation. Moreno addressed composting, growing enough produce to feed a family on a city plot, designing edible landscapes and other sustainable living practices. She is a contributing editor to Fine Gardening’s GROW magazine, writer for Organic Gardening Magazine and The Old Farmers’ Almanac, and the co-host of Growing a Greener World, a new public television show about gardening and living sustainably.
  More information: http://www.archdaily.com/51994/urban-sustainable-living-a-lecture-by-patti-moreno/

5 March

• Exhibition - Build Somewhere Else: TYIN + Anna Heringer
  14 February - 28 March 2010. Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
  After Rudy Ricciotti, Patrick Bouchain, Lacaton and Vassal, Luca Merlini and Lefèvre and Aubert, the villa Noailles pursues its exploration of universe of committed architects. From February 14th till March 28th, 2010, will be presented the projects and the realizations of two teams of architects: the TYIN association (see their projects in ArchDaily here) created by two young Norwegian architects, Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, and those of German architect Anna Heringer (see her project in ArchDaily here). “Build Somewhere Else”, because this exhibition shows projects conceived by people “here”, in Europe, for people “over there”, in Africa or in Asia. Over there, where the term «shelter» takes back its first sense: In Africa and in Asia, with the students Norwegian architects of TYIN, who created a humanitarian organization to build houses of orphan teenagers, libraries of village and public baths, with the local population and within environmental protection conditions. In Africa and in Bengladesh, with a young German architect, who has reinterpreted the ancients constructiv systems.
  More information: http://www.archdaily.com/51825/build-somewhere-else-tyin-anna-heringer/

• Shelter for Haiti / Andres Duany
  In just a short period of time since the earthquake hit Haiti, designers have been proposing possible housing solutions for the country. We will share a variety of these housing schemes with you throughout the week, with the hope that they will encourage more people to get involved to help not only Haiti, but also Chile. The first proposal is designed by Andres Duany, a Miami architect. Duany, with the help of sociologists and anthropologists, has designed four different versions of a temporary structure to relieve the urgent need for housing in Haiti. The differences in the homes respond to the varying ways Haitians live, so that each home is tailored to their specific needs.
  More information: http://www.archdaily.com/51578/shelter-for-haiti-andres-duany/

• Rebuilding Haiti-2030 Horizon: a historic Colloquium
  With the objective of rebuilding Haiti, whose capital and other main cities were devastated by the earthquake one Tuesday in January 12th 2010, some twenty organizations and personalities from the Haitian community in Quebec have organised a reflection and action group for the reconstruction of Haiti. The main aim of this group is to formulate concrete proposals for those involved in the rebuilding of Haiti, on the basis of those reflections reached with a participative approach, and taking into account the experts’ reports and sensitivities in both the country and outside. To reach this objective, the group has aimed, among other things, at organizing an open and participatory Colloquia, that will be held the next 4th and 5th of March in the Polytechnic School of Montreal. Registrations can be done online at http://www.haiti-grahn.org.
  More information in French: http://www.auf.org/regions/ameriques/actualites/reconstruire-haiti-horizon-2030-un-colloque-historique.html

• Video Conference organized by the AUF for the students from the University of Quisqueya (Haiti)
  Under the framework of the mobilization in favour of Haiti and the Haitian university community, the AUF and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, organized the opening session of online education with a video conference in association with the University of Quisqueya (Haiti). Professor M. Pascal Bernard, a remarkable seismologist from the Institute of the Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), encouraged this video conference from Paris in front of an audience made up of Science students from Haiti. The conference dealt with the topic “Plate tectonics and the geophysical balance of the seism in Haiti”.
  More information in French: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/actualites/visio-haiti2010.html?var=lettre57%22

• Reopening of the AUF Caribbean Office
  Mr. Abderrahmane Lellou, Vice-Rector of Scientific Politics at the AUF, has just presided the official reopening of the Caribbean Office today, an office that will temporarily have its headquarters in the campus of University of Quisqueya. The office will open from 9am to 3 pm, from Monday to Friday. The office staff will see to immediately resume their activities. Next, a virtual structure will be established. This will hold the computers form the French virtual campus and will temporarily welcome students from our member universities.
  More information in French: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/actualites/haiti-2010-4043.html?var=lettre57%22

• Participation of the Rector and President of the AUF in the international Colloquium on “The conditions of dialogue for the stabilization of African universities”
  Mr. Yvon Fontaine, President of the University Agency of the French Studies, and the Rector, Mr. Bernard Cerquiglini, were in Burkina Faso from February 21st-24th, 2010. This mission allowed them to take part in the international Colloquium on “The conditions of dialogue for the stabilization of African universities”. The participants in the colloquium pointed out its adequacy and relevance, considering the repetitive crises they have undergone and their consequences, something which disturbs those universities in the West Africa region.
  More information in French: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/actualites/ouada-2010.html?var=lettre57%22

http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/chcap/publications/recent-pubs.php

In discussions on substantial differences, the technical meets the philosophical, the administrative meets the political. Decisions on recognition, made in considering whether a difference is substantial, have a direct influence on applicants' future study and employment opportunities, but also reveal how those who make the decisions view themselves, their education system and their societies.

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A European manual for cultural operators
Edité by Relais Culture Europe
Chairwoman: Mrs Catherine Lalumière
Publication Director: Pascal Brunet
Editorial Committee: Laurence Barone, Sylvine Bois-Choussy, Marie Salomé-Daugeron
The manual deals with the overall practice of developing a European project and the process from the idea to the project implementation and reporting, It gives plenty of examples and tips on how to work on a project at a European level in a changing environment. The manual looks also at funding opportunities for cultural projects in Europe.
http://www.relais-culture-europe.org/fileadmin/fichiers/4_Monter_son_projet/manuel2-F-BD.pdf