Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

Eleonora Belfiore has joined this year the international jury of the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA), an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC).

The award, introduced in 2004, aims to encourage young researchers in the field of cultural policy studies, by promoting “research projects which shed light on contemporary European cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering policy solutions”.

Dr Belfiore has had the pleasure to write a preface for a book by Elisa Bonacini, Italian archaeologist and doctoral candidate at the University of Catania, Italy. The book entitled Il museo contemporaneo. Fra tradizione, marketing e nuove tecnologie (The contemporary museum: Between tradition, marketing and new technologies) is published by Roman based academic publisher Aracne.

Dr Eleonora Belfiore delivered a keynote paper entitled "Evaluating the social impact of the arts – dos & don'ts", at the "Kulturstadt Basel" conference on 27th January 2011. This was an event that brought together politicians, policy-makers, funding bodies, community representatives and other stakeholders to discuss the implications of the "Kulturleitbild" - cultural  mission - launched by the city of Basel in August 2010.