Letter of Intent - Akademie Remscheid

Letter of Intent
The undersigned centres of expertise and research in arts and cultural education in eight European
countries intend to establish a joint European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and
Cultural Education linked to UNESCO (ENO). Guiding principles for the network and its members have
been outlined in the attached draft document.
Each prospective member of the network agrees to draw up a programme of activities for 2016-2018
in agreement with the national UNESCO-committee in its country. These programmes may vary in
size and content but each programme contains at least the following activities, creating a common
ground for joint research and publications:
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to take part in ENO-meetings twice a year to discuss, monitor and evaluate joint activities
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to take part in the international project Monitoring National Arts Education Systems (MONAES).
[Goals, strategies and action items in the Seoul Agenda Goals for the Development of Arts
Education (2010) provide the frame of reference for this project which was initiated by the
International Network for Arts Education Research (INRAE).]
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to organise a public event during the UNESCO Arts Education Week (last week of May) each year,
attracting attention to issues and priorities in the UN Post-2015-Sustainable Development
Agenda and/or the Seoul Agenda Goals for the Development of Arts Education
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to distribute information about these activities and their results by operating a joint website and
by publishing a joint annual report under the auspices of the European Network of
Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education
The undersigned centres of expertise and research in arts and cultural education agree to draw up
their programme of activities and to secure necessary (extra) funding in the course of 2015. The
international arts education conference in Wildbad Kreuth, Germany (May 2015) provides the
opportunity to discuss draft programmes. The European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts
and Cultural Education linked to UNESCO (ENO) will be officially founded at a special conference 17 19 November 2015 in Genshagen, Germany.
The undersigned centres of expertise and research in arts and cultural education will become a
formalized NGO with a legal status. ENO aims at achieving either a flexible and dynamic partnership
with UNESCO Headquarters Paris in the definition and implementation of UNESCO’s programmes
(consultative status), or a close and sustained cooperation in defining and implementing the
Organization’s programme (associate status).
Vienna, Brussels, Ghent, Copenhagen, Newcastle, Nottingham, Grenoble, Remscheid, Genshagen,
Erlangen, Utrecht, Girona in January 2015
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Austria
Gerhard Kowar, Direktor; Barbara Neundlinger, Kulturkontakt Austria, Wien
Belgium (Flanders)
Prof. Dr. Willem Elias, Dr. Lode Vermeersch, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Department of Educational
Sciences
Prof. Dr. John Lievens, Dr. Jessy Siongers: Ghent University - Department of Sociology / Policy
Research Centre on Culture
Denmark
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Assistant professor, Section for Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Copenhagen
England
Paul Collard, director, Creative Culture and Education, Newcastle
Pat Thomson PSM PhD, Professor of Education, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies
(Research Support and Leadership for the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences), University of
Nottingham
France
Jean-Pierre Saez, directeur, Observatoire des politiques culturelles, Grenoble
Germany
Prof. Dr. Susanne Keuchel, Direktorin, Akademie Remscheid
in cooperation with:
Christel Hartmann-Fritsch, Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied, Stiftung Genshagen, Genshagen
Prof. Dr. Eckart Liebau, Dr. Ernst Wagner, UNESCO Lehrstuhl Kulturelle Bildung, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen
The Netherlands
Ocker van Ocker van Munster, LKCA managing director; Dr. Teunis IJdens, Landelijk Kennisinstituut
Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst (LKCA) / The Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Cultural
Education and Amateur Arts (LKCA), Utrecht
Spain
Gemma Carbó, Directora Càtedra UNESCO de Polítiques Culturals i Cooperació, University of Girona,
Presidenta ConArte Internacional
European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education linked to UNESCO
(ENO)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Keuchel
Akademie Remscheid für Kulturelle Bildung e.V.
Küppelstein 34, 42857 Remscheid
Germany
Dr. Teunis IJdens
Landelijk Kennisinstituut Cultuureducatie en
Amateurkunst (LKCA)
Kromme Nieuwegracht 66, 3512 HL Utrecht
The Netherlands
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