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Research and dissemination 1999-2008

1) The project Creative Europe was planned and implemented in 1999-2002. The project was financed by the members of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Co-operation (NEF) and co-ordinated by ERICArts (Bonn). FinnEKVIT carried out case studies, provided analyses on creativity management and contributed texts for Part II of the final report “Creative Europe: On Governance and Management of Artistic Creativity in Europe” (ARCult, 2000).
2) FinnEKVIT carried out in 2000-2002 an extensive mapping and analysis of cultural policy administration and legislation in Finland. The results were published in 2002 (in Finnish) by Tietosanomat, Helsinki as a book titled “The Fields of Arts and Culture. Basic structures, governance, legislation and new challenges”. The book also contains a collection and codification of laws, statutes and EU/EC directives.  This project was financially supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.

3) FinnEKVIT carried out in 2002-2003 a comparative analysis of managing change and institutional engineering in the cultural and arts institutions in Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. The project was financed with Finnish government funds for co-operation with adjacent regions. The project ended in February 2003, the communication of results and follow-up took place in March-June 2003.

4) FinnEKVIT implemented in 2002-2003 the Finnish data gathering, analysis and reporting for the project Culture-Gates. This was a comparative study on the impact of gate-keeping systems and gate-keepers on women’s careers and labour market position in the fields of music and new media arts in Europe.  The project was financed by the EU/DG Employment and Social Affairs (programme of Equal Opportunities) and co-ordinated by ERICArts. The comparative data and national reports were provided for the project by the research teams from four countries, Finland,  Austria, Germany and Portugal. The country reports and the comparative report and policy conclusions were published by ARTCultMedia  in 2003 as a book titled “Culture: Gates. Exposing Professional ‘Gate-keeping’ Processes in Music and New Media Arts”.

5) The project “Culture Gates” was continued as a new project Culture Biz in 2004 by the same national teams. This time the project mapped and analysed gender equality in book publishing and film sector in Europe.  This project was also funded by the EU/DG Employment and Social Affairs (programme of Equal Opportunities) and co-ordinated by ERICArts (Bonn). The research team of FinnEKVIT compiled the reports on the Finnish book publishing and film sectors. The country reports and the comparative report and policy conclusions by ERICArts were published  in 2005 by ARCultMedia as a book titled “Culture Biz. Locating Women as Film and Book Publishing Professionals in Europe".

6.  In 2003-2005 FinnEKVIT implemented an assessment of the financing and governance of the arts and culture in Finland. The project was financed by the Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (Cupore). The final report, published in 2005, is set into a frame of neo-institutional economics and proposes three alternative policy outcome scenarios for 2005-2012. It was published (in Finnish) by the financier (CUPORE, Julkaisuja/Publications 6/2005).

7) In 2003-2006 FinnEkvit, as a partner of ERICarts, planned and implemented a pilot project on mobility in European Arts and Culture (MEAC), financed by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). The project developed a conceptual scheme for analysing mobility of artists, cultural professionals and cultural products and provided subsequent empirical illustrations. The latter included an extensive Finnish national report ("Trends in International Mobility of Finnish Artists") compiled in collaboration with researchers of Cupore (the Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research). The report Dynamics, Causes and Consequences of the Transborder Mobility in the European Arts and Culture and a proposal for a more comprehensive research projects were handed over to the financier in 2006. The main report and the Finnish national report are published online at www.labforculture.org/fr/labforculture/blog/4051/(offset)/50/(profileid)/4051

8) In 2006-2007 FinnEKVIT participated in another  ERICarts mobility study on programmes and schemes supporting or influencing the mobility of cultural professionals in Europe, financed by the EU Commission. The secretary general of FinnEKVIT was one of the six key experts of the study and, in collaboration of Cupore researchers, provided data and analyses of the mobility schemes of Finland and Nordic countries. The final report and country data and analyses are published online at the website www.mobility-matters.eu/web/mobility—case-studies.