The conference invites both members of Encatc and is open for any organisation in Europe interested in the issues discussed. We hope to create an open space and meetingpossiblities of many different cultural organisations and training centres. Hopefully the three days in Göteborg can create new projectideas, possibilities to meet and not the least stand as inspiriation for all of us working with artisitic and cultural issues in Europe.

The 2007 ENCATC conference will focus on entrepreneurship, culture, and education. By conducting a high-quality international conference on entrepreneurship and education in cultural life from the perspective of the active in the field in West Sweden, we aim, among other things:

• To provide an opportunity for the exchange of experience and knowledge between people who are activly involved in cultural life from all of Europe.
• To offer cultural organizations the chance to meet new partners and cooperations
• To advance the frontier of knowledge within the field of culture and entrepreneurship
• To share the spirit of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge that characterizes West Sweden, where there are several examples of initiatives that started from a “bottom up” perspective and which are well known today in the region, in Scandinavia, and internationally. There are several such examples like The Gothenburg Film Festival, the Clandestino Festival, the Book and Library Fair, Not Quite, the Water Color Museum, the Dance and Theater Festival, Film in the West, the Artists’ Collective Workshop, Dem Collective and Nätverkstan are some of them.
• To demonstrate West Sweden and its progressive spirit on the cultural scene

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