The Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport (DCMS) is a department of the United Kingdom government,with responsibility for culture and sport in England,the building of a digital economy,and some aspects of the media throughout the UK,such as broadcasting and Internet.
The creative industries refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information. They may variously also be referred to as the cultural industries (especially in Europe or the creative economy,and most recently they have been denominated as the Orange Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Francesco Rutelli is President of Anica,National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry,since October 2016. He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile". He was during 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party,a centrist European political party and he is now President of the Institute of European Democrats,EDP political foundation. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001,and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. Currently he also chairs PrioritàCultura;Incontro di Civiltà;Videocittà,Moving Images Festival.
European Union culture policies aim to address and promote the cultural dimension of European integration through relevant legislation and government funding. These policies support the development of cultural activity,education or research conducted by private companies,NGO's and individual initiatives based in the EU working in the fields of cinema and audiovisual,publishing,music and crafts.
Directorate-General for Communications Networks,Content and Technology is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. DG Connect is responsible for managing the Digital Agenda.
The Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Cultural exception is a political concept introduced by France in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations in 1993 to treat culture differently from other commercial products. In other words,its purpose is to consider cultural goods and services as exceptions in international treaties and agreements especially with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Its goals are to point out that States are sovereign as far as limitation of culture free trade is concerned in order to protect and promote their artists and other elements of their culture. Concretely,it can be seen through protectionist measures limiting the diffusion of foreign artistic work (quotas) or through subsidies distributed according to the country's cultural policy.
Dame Seona Elizabeth Reid is a Scottish arts administrator who was director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1999 to 2013,and former director of the Scottish Arts Council from 1990 to 1999.
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts,brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet),launched in 2008.
Maria Renske "Marietje" Schaake is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. She is a member of Democrats 66,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
Intergroups are formed of Members of the European Parliament from any political group and any committee,with a view to holding informal exchanges of views on particular subjects and promoting contact between Members and civil society.
Ramona Nicole Mănescu is a Romanian politician and lawyer. From 24 July 2019 to 4 November 2019,she served as minister of Foreign Affairs in the Romanian Government. She was a Member of the European Parliament serving 2007 to 2013 and 2014 to 2019 from the National Liberal Party,active within the European People's Party. As part of this group she is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs,vice-chair in the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and a substitute member in the Committee on transport and tourism and in Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula.
Petra Kammerevert is a German politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC) is a standing committee of the House of Commons of Canada. The Committee is currently chaired by Scott Simms,with Vice-Chairs Alain Rayes and Martin Champoux.
Creative Europe is a €1.46 billion European Union programme for the cultural and creative sectors for the years 2014–2020. The programme was approved by the European Parliament on 19 November 2013 and adopted by the European Council on 3 December 2013. It came into force on 1 January 2014. A total of 650 of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of the programme,with 32 against and 10 abstaining. In November 2020,the programme was renewed for another seven years (2021-2027) and its budget increased to 2.2 billion.
The Creative Industries Federation is a national organisation for all the UK's creative industries,cultural education and arts. It advocates for the sector,aiming to ensure that the creative industries are central to political,economic and social decision-making.
Maria Spyraki is a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Nea Dimokratia party - European People's Party (EPP),and a Greek journalist
The Federal Trust for Education and Research is a research institute studying the interactions between regional,national,European and global levels of government. Founded in 1945 on the initiative of Sir William Beveridge,it has long made a powerful contribution to the study of federalism and federal systems. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it.
Media freedom in the European Union is a fundamental right that applies to all member states of the European Union and its citizens,as defined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as well as the European Convention on Human Rights. Within the EU enlargement process,guaranteeing media freedom is named a "key indicator of a country's readiness to become part of the EU".
Reshaping Cultural Policies is a report series published by UNESCO which monitors the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). The 2005 UNESCO Convention encourages its 146 parties to introduce policies for culture within a global context and commitment to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions. The second and most recent report (2018) subtitled “Advancing Creativity for Development”follows the first report (2015) with the subtitle “A Decade Promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expressions for Development”.
