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As a permanent tool for observation and debates for cultural and also territorial
policies, the Observatory for Cultural Policies (OCP) was fathered, when created
in March 1989, by the Ministry of Culture, the University Pierre Mendès
France in Grenoble, the IEP of Grenoble and the CERAT, CNRS local research centre
(see the detailed history).
- How do we define the Observatory?
It is a national organism which was created to aid the decentralisation and
de-concentration of cultural policies, to help the reflection on the cultural
development and improvement of the country, on the cultural and artistic dynamics
through training, studies, advise and information.
The OCP works together with the Government, the local associations, professionals
from the artistic, cultural, university and research field. These four worlds
of culture are represented within its departments.
- Its role and its missions
To explore interactions between social, cultural and artistic dynamics and
public policies within their local dimension
To promote knowledge, evaluation, or even prospective analysis of the cultural
actions of local and public bodies in order to compare them at a national,
and more and more, a European level; Not only the institutions, that are
involved in the cultural field, are represented but those which are involved
in this
field form another public sphere: the Town Council, Social Affairs, Foreign
Affairs…)
To help different initiatives from local associations and government services
in cultural policies,
To support reflexion on the co-operation and cultural exchanges at a national
and international level,
To contribute to the professionnalisation of cultural managers of local associations,
government services, artistic and cultural projects and institutions,
To obtain more reflexion on local cultural policies,
To participate in making cultural actors aware of the stakes of public policies
and making public decision makers aware of the cultural and artistic stakes,
by giving and debating its observations and analysis to the local government,
institutional managers, researchers.
- These missions are defined into 4 operational working axis organise and
implemented by the OCP:
- Studies and research-actions,
- Training,
- An activity of advice, expertise, follow-up, information,
- Publications
in books, studies and bi-annual magazine.
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