The Citizens’ Culture Council, apointed by the mayor Rafał Bruski and consisting of 30 members, gathered on January 9th 2012. The previous debates concerned, among other issues, the financing of culture from the city’s budget, this time the main topic was the culture masterplan for Bydgoszcz. Professor Dorota Ilczu and professor Wojciech Kłosowski were invited to paricipate in the debate as external experts. They will also support the working group for the masterplan.

We will be following the events and cheering for the Council, which undertook the realisation of such a pioneer task.

We have prepared short summaries of the ‘Creative Partnerships on Poland’ report in Polish and English. The full report is available only in Polish. You can download the documents here:

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On November 22nd in Brussels a discussion on public financing on culture  took place. The meeting was organised by the  Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament in connection with the publication of Rosselli Foundation’s Insitute for Media Economics report ‘Public investment in culture and communications industry’.

The meeting, held in the European Parliament’ s seat, begun with the opening speech by Silvia Costa,  MEP from S&D group. Later on Flavia Barca, the director of the Institute for Media Economics, presented the results of the aforementioned report. Dorota Ilczuk was one of the experts invited to discussion. The other speakers were: Gerard de Graaf – Director, Audiovisual Media Internet, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission; Gert-Jan Koopman – Deputy Director-General State Aids, DG Competition, European Commission; André Lange – Head of Department, Information on Markets and Financing, European Audiovisual Observatory; Doris Pack – Chair Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament; Vladimir Sucha – Director, Culture, Multilingualism and Communication, DG Education and Culture, European Commission and Andreas Wiesand – Executive Director, ERICarts (European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research).

We place here the presentations of  Flavia Braca and Dorota Ilczuk.