International Metings and Conferences in the Area Of Culture and Audio-Visual Policy During the Slovenian EU Council Presidency 2008
Event: Opening event of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (2008)
Date: 7-8 January 2008
Venue: Cankarjev Dom Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana
Event Description:
The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue will commence with the Community-level opening event on 7 and 8 January 2008, prepared by Slovenia as the presiding EU country in cooperation with the European Commission. The event will also be the opening ceremony of the Slovenian EU Council Presidency.
The two-day programme will consist of two parts: the conference entitled Intercultural Dialogue as a Fundamental Value of the EU covering culture, media, education and economic development, prepared in cooperation with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Primorska, and the grand opening ceremony at Community level, prepared in cooperation with the director Barbara Hieng Samobor and the producer, the Cankarjev dom.
You will find more on the opening event and the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 at: http://www.mk.gov.si/si/evropsko_leto_medkulturnega_dialoga/
Event: Consultation of managers of national archives of the EU Member States and the DLM Forum
Date: 8-11 April 2008
Venue: Hotel Union, Ljubljana
Event Description:
The meeting of the European Board of National Archivists (EBNA) meeting is a regular six-monthly meeting of the managers of national archives in EU Member States and candidate countries, organised on each occasion by the presiding Member State. The subject on the agenda for this meeting is the Council Recommendation on priority actions to increase cooperation in the field of archives in Europe (OJ EU L 312, 29.11.2005, p.55). In its efforts to improve the management of historical archives and develop national archive services in the EU, the Slovenian Presidency will focus on monitoring the implementation of tasks in five priority areas and by special working groups as laid down in the document. The reason is that during the next Presidency, i.e. the French Presidency, a report on the three-year implementation of priorities will have to be submitted to the European Commission.
The DLM Forum is a regular six-monthly meeting of members of the DLM Forum multidisciplinary community (established by the Commission in 1996), which specialises in the problems of electronic archives and the life cycle of documents, as well as public and private information technology sectors. The meeting is organised as a small-scale conference (70 to 90 participants), including the activities of working groups. Member States will present national solutions, while proposals for policies and models are developed at EU level.
During the Slovenian Presidency, the focus will primarily be on development of the EU recommended specification – the MoReq 2 model (for management and storage of electronic archives) and performance of the review of the upgrade of MoReq 2, which the Commission ordered to be produced (in the ITC sector) following a public tender.
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Arhiv RS, Natalija Glažar, tel: +386 1 241 42 12, e-mail: natalija.glazar(at)gov.si, http://www.arhiv.gov.si/en/eu_presidency/
Event: International conference "Europe, World and Humanity in the 21st Century"
Date: 10-13 April 2008
Venue: Hotel Union, Ljubljana
Event Description:
The conference will be the central event on the subject of multicultural dialogue and Slovenia's contribution to the European Year of Multicultural Dialogue, bringing together the crème de la crème of contemporary European thought.
The organisers proceed from the conclusion that the intercultural dialogue for which Europe is striving today cannot be established merely at the level of social and cultural information, given that, for good and ill, encounters between Europeans have not been confined to those areas but have also occurred in the fields of philosophy, science, religion, arts, politics and history. This, of course, is also true of encounters with non-European cultural and civilisation traditions, where our values were either given as a gift or imposed by force. If intercultural dialogue is meant to be a constructive contribution to the political image of future European society, then we need to start addressing issues which in terms of their values define the humanity of Europe and which in several respects seem to be the key issues of the world today.
The aim of this three-day meeting will, therefore, be to find the answers to the following two fundamental questions. What, according to its own humanistic tradition, can Europe offer as its message today, if understanding the fundamental problems of the globalised world is the issue? And what does globalism, which we do not yet fully understand, have to tell Europe?
More Information: Vesna Jurca Tadel, tel: +386 1 369 59 52, e-mail: vesna.jurca-tadel(at)gov.si
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Event: Informal Meeting of the Cultural Affairs Committee (CAC)
Date: 20-22 April 2008
Venue: Brdo pri Kranju
Event Description:
The informal meeting of the Committee on Cultural Affairs (CAC) is a traditional working meeting which brings together the national representatives of the EU Member States in the country currently presiding. The meeting combines the regular work of the Council with debates on subjects which will have a significant bearing on cultural affairs in the EU in future. Slovenia will invite the Member States to participate in a discussion on the mobility of artists and other culture professionals.
More Information: Sonja Kralj Bervar, tel: +386 1 369 59 42, e-mail: sonja.kralj-bervar(at)gov.si
Event: International Conference: Online Content for Creativity
Date: 4-6 June 2008
Venue: Brdo pri Kranju
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Event: International Conference "Culture Online"
Date: 5-7 June 2008
Venue: Brdo pri Kranju
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Event: Informal Meeting of European Cultural Contact Points (CCP)
Date: 11-14 June 2008
Venue: City Hotel and Mestni muzej (City Museum), Ljubljana
Event Description:
This meeting organised by the Cultural Contact Point Slovenia (the Centre for Contemporary Arts "SCCA Ljubljana") will primarily be intended for the representatives of the national European information centre networks from 31 countries participating in the Culture programme. Invitations to this meeting will also be extended to representatives of the Culture Ministries of EU accession countries (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia), the European Commission, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), the Ministry of Culture and other government services, as well as to operators in the field of culture, and the media.
The traditional meeting organised by each presiding country will this time be devoted to the subject of "Intercultural Dialogue between South-Eastern Europe and the European Union". Part of the programme will be dedicated to an open consultation on the communication information between south-eastern Europe and the EU as a means of promoting intercultural dialogue and international cooperation in the field of culture. The invited guests will be experts who provide cultural consultancy and information activities or who deal with issues of free circulation of information, particularly those who promote and disseminate the results of international projects, raise awareness of various EU and other financing sources, initiatives for international networking and other initiatives for co-operation in the area of culture. With this event, we wish to encourage the free circulation of information between all stakeholders and thereby contribute to a diverse cultural space, open to creativity and mutual understanding between cultures.
More Information: Kulturna stična točka, Metelkova 6, Mateja Lazar, tel: +386 1 431 83 85, e-mail: ccp(at)scca-ljubljana.si, http://www.ccp.si/english/
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