KULTURKONTAKT AUSTRIA Competence Centre for Cultural education Cultural mediation Cultural dialogue Education cooperation

Profile  Non Profit Organisation based in Vienna  About 50 employees  Financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and the State Secretary for the Arts and Media  Director: Dr. Kurt Wagner Departments  Education Cooperation  Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring  Cultural Mediation & Art Education

Education Cooperation Education Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe Austrian Educational Coordinators and project offices Aim Providing assistance in the European integration of the partner countries by supporting their educational reform process

Education Cooperation Main focus  Design and development of curricula  Teaching material  Vocational training for teachers  Consulting for key-players in the field  Education networks

Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring Cultural Promotion in cooperation with 22 countries in Central and Eastern Europe Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia- Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary und Belorussia in all branches of the arts Literature, music, theater, dance, fine arts, photography / video and new media, film, cultural management

Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring Subsidies for  Exhibitions  Material, travel costs, stay, catalogue of the artists  Translation  Performance of plays of Austrian authors in Central and Eastern Europe and vice versa  Scholarships (e.g. for Eastern European artists participating in dance web, international Academy for Arts management)

Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring Programms and cooperations  Writers-in-residence-programme for authors  Artist-in-residence-programme for fine arts and photography  Cooperations with Ars Electronica Center  Dance Web  Tanzquartier Wien

Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring Database The spectrum of recorded data ranges from cultural project funding offices via publishing houses, exhibiting halls and theatres to music and arts centres. Also included are cultural network organisations and their members as well as western European institutions which provide funding for the production of Eastern European art and culture.

Cultural Promotion & Sponsoring Sponsoring Aims  Providing consultation and training for cultural workers and artists in Austria  e.g. development of offers  Providing consultation for companies  Assistance in the selection of projects  Concept development

Cultural Mediation & Art Education Main activities  Developing art mediation & art education projects  Consultation and service for art mediation projects in the school-, vocational-, and apprenticeship context  Art mediation projects together with museums, exhibitions and theaters  EU funded projects

Cultural Mediation & Art Education Consultation, funding, and expertise in the fields of for  Dance & theater  Literature  New Media  Architecture  Fine Arts  Music  teachers  800 artists  young people  workshops per year

Cultural Mediation & Art Education ARTWORKS – Artistic Services in the Third Sector  Development partnership implemented as part of the European Community Initiative EQUAL  Subsidised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour and the European Social Fund  12 partner organisations in Austria, leading and coordinating partner: KULTURKONTAKT AUSTRIA  3 European partners in Italy, Portugal and Spain  Duration: September 2002 – February 2005

Cultural Mediation & Art Education ARTWORKS aims  Improving the precarious work and income situation of artists in Austria:  Networking in the fields of culture & employment  Analysis and development of new areas of work for artists in the Third sector  Qualification of artists for these new areas  Initiating new forms of cooperation  Establishing the social and economic relevance of artistic services in the Third sector in the eyes of the public

Cultural Mediation & Art Education ARTWORKS target groups  Artists of all branches  Organisations operating in the Third Sector  Key-players

Cultural Mediation & Art Education ARTWORKS milestones  Website & project data base to the subject of “culture & employment”  Research: Studies on analyses of the market and the need for artistic services  Cultural entrepreneurship guide for women artists  Cultural entrepreneurship workshop  Training week “Art in the social field” for artists and NPO representatives

Cultural Mediation & Art Education ARTWORKS publications  Research: Studies on analyses of the market and the need for artistic services (English)  Cultural entrepreneurship guide for women artists (German)  ARTWORKS documentation “Seven stories about life dedicated to art, social environment and service“ (German) order free of charge at

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