Events and meetings

19
Feb

INVENT presentation for media scholars and practitioners at Communication Science Conference in Rotterdam

Marc Verboord presented a new study from the INVENT project at the Etmaal 2024 conference in Rotterdam. The conference is the largest annual Communication Science conference in the Netherlands and Flanders. Erasmus University’s Department of Media and Communication hosted the conference, which was attended by over 400 media scholars, educators, policymakers, and practitioners. The presentation was titled: “Media Use, Cultural

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11
Feb

Successful presentations by Mirko Petrić on cultural inequalities and the crucial role of cultural funding

Two recent presentations by Mirko Petrić of the Croatian INVENT team have drawn significant attention and acclaim, highlighting perceptions of cultural inequalities across Europe and the need to finance culture. The first presentation, titled How citizens of nine European countries perceive inequalities in culture?, was held as an online lecture on January 31st, 2024. Organized by the Croatian Sociological Association

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1
Jun

Let’s look back at the final 2023 INVENT Conference in Barcelona

On April 27-28, 2023, the INVENT consortium hosted its final conference: Societal Drivers and Impacts of Cultural Participation: Key Findings Towards More Inclusive Cultural Policies. The INVENT consortium gathered in the sunny and dynamic city of Barcelona, at the Institut d’Estudis Catalan to present the key research outputs the project has produced over the past 3 years. Since the first INVENT

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9
Nov

The INVENT consortium met for its fifth team meeting in Zadar, Croatia

In the period between October 6th and 8th, 2022, a team meeting of the INVENT project (European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World) was held in Zadar, Croatia. The project is supported by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. The meeting was organised by the Croatian partner in the

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22
Aug

Mark your calendars! These are the events where INVENT is presenting their findings this fall.

The INVENT Project will be presenting part of its findings across an array of conferences this coming Fall. Below, we will detail the upcoming presentations and events that feature INVENT’s findings, but if you already want a glimpse of what else the project has been up to, don’t forget to check out our second yearly newsletter. You can read and

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26
Jul

The Dutch INVENT team presents their findings on online cultural petitions at conference “The Value of Culture after Corona”

On June 30, 2022, the Dutch INVENT team attended the Boekman Foundation conference entitled “The Value of Culture after Corona” and presented their findings from a big-data-analysis of online cultural petitions among Dutch citizens and organizations. The findings presented are part of the second wave of data scraping carried out by the INVENT consortium that explores which cultural petitions dominate

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31
Mar

Cultural policy as a meeting place of bottom-up and top-down approaches: Messages to cultural policy in Croatia based on the results of INVENT project

The importance of academic knowledge on the social aspects of culture is essential in the field of cultural policy. Nevertheless, insights of this kind are frequently neglected in the processes of devising national cultural policies in different European countries. In addition to broad EU policy frameworks, cultural policies of the nation states should include knowledge about how culture is seen

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9
Dec

Meet-up Dutch INVENT team with Cultural Policy Officers of the City of Rotterdam

Last month the Dutch INVENT team sat down with Olga Smit and Anne-Rienke Hendrikse of the Municipality of Rotterdam. The two senior cultural policy officers paid a visit to Erasmus University Rotterdam to have an open conversation on the developments and current affairs in the local cultural sector. To reach the central objective of the INVENT project — the creation

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28
Sep

INVENT presents at Academy of Sociology Conference | 30.09.2021

This year’s congress of the German Academy of Sociology will take place from Sep. 29 to Oct. 01. As part of the session about “European Integration, Identity, and Populism”, INVENT team members will present results from their ongoing project. The presentation is entitled “Does culture foster integration? How the perception of European culture is related to support for European integration”

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22
Sep

INVENT CONFERENCE ROTTERDAM – Session VIII

The methods for understanding how European citizens relate to culture are as diverse as the citizens themselves! Join us in session 8 of the INVENT Conference 2021 to learn more about the methodological challenges and innovations occurring in cultural research. Register here Beyond embarking on a large-scale research project spanning nine different European countries, the INVENT project has also challenged

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