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   The European Diploma in cultural project management is a pan-European training program arising from the will to foster cultural diversity as well as trans-regional and transnational cultural exchanges. The Hicter Fondation is the organizer and manager of the course.

 The objective is threefold:

- to strengthen the knowledge of cultural managers about European, national and regional cultural policies;

- to improve management skills to run cultural co-operation projects;

- to develop a network of European cultural managers.





Who is the training for ?

Cultural managers from public or private organizations who are actively involved in the management of cultural and artistic projects in their region, with at least 3 years experience.

The training languages being French and English, applicants must be fluent in one of these working languages and have a good passive knowledge of the other. The age limit is 45.



Content and Organization

The European Diploma is organized so that the participants carry on with their professionnal activities.

The program lasts one year and is organized in 3 phases : 2 residential sessions, a comparative study and an evaluation/seminar phase.



The residential sessions

Two sessions of a fortnight take place in two different countries each year.

The next training sessions will be organized in Finland in May 2008 and in Cyprus in October 08.



The themes are: Europe and culture; Project Management, Cultural co-operation, Operational management of cultural projects, Fund Raising etc.



Back to the field

Between the residential sessions and the evaluation phase, the trainees return to their jobs and in parallel work on their own project. They also have to do a comparative study visit in another region of Europe.



The evaluation/seminar phase

This one-week phase will take place in June 2009. It includes the presentation of the participants projects and the organization of a thematic seminar.



Financial participation

Each participant or the organization he/she works for will pay a fee of 3.000 Euros.





Application form 2008/09

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Deadline for application : 15th January 2008



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