The European Diploma in Cultural Project Management is a pan-European trainingprogramme arising from the will to foster cultural diversity as well as transregional andtransnational cultural exchanges. The Fondation Marcel Hicter is the organizer and manager of the course.
The objective is threefold:
To strengthen the knowledge of cultural managers about European, national and regionalcultural policies;
To improve cultural managers skills to run cultural co-operation projects.
To develop a network of European cultural managers.
Each year, around 25 professionals from 20 countries are taking part in the EuropeanDiploma. Since 1989, 470 cultural managers from 41 countries (from Europe, MiddleEast, Canada, etc) followed this course. The programme is supported by the Council of Europe.
Who is the training for?
Cultural managers from public and private organizations who are actively involved in themanagement of cultural and artistic projects in their region, with at least 3 yearsexperience. The training languages being English and French, applicants must be fluent in one ofthese two working languages and have a good passive knowledge of the other. The agelimit is 45.
Content and Organization
The European Diploma is organized so that the participants carry on with theirprofessional activities. The programme 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 session, will be organised in Ireland, from the 10th till the 21rst ofMay 2009, and in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in October 2009.
The themes, which will be discussed, are: Europe and culture; project management,cultural cooperation, operational management of cultural projects, fund raising etc.
Back to the field
Between the residential sessions and the evaluation phase, the trainees return to theirjobs in their countries, and in parallel work on their own project. They also have to do acomparative study visit in another region of Europe.
The evaluation/seminar phase
This one-week phase includes the presentation of the participants projects and theorganization of a thematic seminar. It will take place mid 2010.
Financial participation
Most of the expenses for this training programme are covered by the organizer, and thepartners. Each participant or the organisation he/she works for,will pay a fee of 3.500 €.
Deadline for application: 15 January 2009
The application form 2009/2010 will available on the website in September: www.fondation-hicter.org
