1. C ULTURAL POLICY IN S ERBIA AND POTENTIALS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL COOPERATION C ENTER FOR STUDY IN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT R EPUBLIC OF S ERBIA B OGDANA O PACIC

2. CAPACITIES Infrastructural base  Around 550 cultural institutions  Distribution of municipalities diffusion of cultural institutions  Most of cultural institutions are multifuncional  Around 7.500 employees in cultural sector  Over 2.000 cultural civil society organizations  Over 850 cultural events and festivals  2.422 categorized cultural properties of immovable heritage –  200 of great importance, 5 under UNESCO protection Great opportunities for cultural cooperation and exchange common cultural space with countries in the Region, four countries with nearly the same language and history, great number of national communities /minorities

3. C ULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN S ERBIA ACCORDING TO THE LEGAL STATUS OF INSTITUTIONS around 550 cultural institutions in 167 municipalities and cities in Serbia

4. C ULTURAL INFRASTRUKTURE IN S ERBIA ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES

5. I DENTIFIED DIFFICULTIES / CHALLENGES FOR CULTURAL POLICY Funding Average share for culture in budgets of cities/municipalities Novi Sad – 35,7 Niš - 20 Beograd – 19,5 Kragujevac – 17,5 Pančevo – 16,81 euros

6. I DENTIFIED DIFFICULTIES / CHALLENGES FOR CULTURAL POLICY  Poor equipment, inadequate conditions in facilities, insufficient expertize and capacities of emploeeys  Lack of planning and investment priorities determination  Cultural institutions provide the smallest share for their activities – the largest share comes from the founder  Poor developed competition practice and mechanism – good practice example – the city of Pančevo  Lack of program funding  Programs have the smallest share in funding – the largest share spents for wages and sallaries  Undeveloped practice of evaluation of employees’ work  Deficiency of education and professional trainings for employees  Deficiency of personnel and experience exchange programs FundingEmployees Long-term thinking  Lack of state cultural development strategy – 4 laws  Deficiency of local cultural development strategies (in cities and municipalities)  Lack of development strategies of cultural institutions Deficiency of long-term thinking and acting in a field of culture and cultural policy!

7. I DENTIFIED DIFFICULTIES / CHALLENGES FOR CULTURAL POLICY  Lack of knowledge for projects writing and application procedure  Lack of interest and motivation of employees in cultural institutions Visitors and promotion Projects  Lack of continuity in surveys and researches of citizens’/visitors’ cultural habits and needs  Lack of openness towards visitors  Poor informing of visitors (through media, info points, tourist signalization)

8. I DENTIFIED DIFFICULTIES / CHALLENGES FOR CULTURAL POLICY  Inter-institutional)  Intersectoral (with education and tourism sector)  Intersectoral (with private and civil society actors)  International (particularly cross- border) often limited to program exchange and technology and space outsourcing good practice examples: project Šabac – City of knowledge (2010), Pančevo (2014); project Tesla Ways (2012), Justiniana Prima archeological site tourism development (2014) Cluster of cultural routes; Museum of Nikola Tesla and hotel Square Nine; Pančevo Council of Ministers of South East Europe (2004) – nominations of Medieval Tombstones – Stecak for the UNESCO World Heritage List, Regional development strategy for South East Europe SEE2020 (2014); Museum of Vojvodina and cultural institutions in Romania (2010); The cultural route of the Roman emperors; IPA projects – Poles of cultures, Rock and River;Dunav – Kriš – Moriš – Tisa; (mutual) visitations, coproduction Cooperation

9. P OTENTIALS FOR REGIONAL / INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION GREATEST POTENTIAL GREATEST POTENTIAL – common cultural space, tradition, history, language, numbers of national minorities (Poles of cultures)POSSIBILITIES: international organizations –  Membership in international organizations – UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005, Regional Cooperation Council for South East Europe – regional development strategy SEE2020, Council of Ministers of South East Europe creative industries  Development of creative industries – audiovisual field, publishing and translation industry (coproduction, exchange) cultural heritage  Protection and revitalization of cultural heritage– Council of Ministers of South East Europe – Belgrade declaration (2011.) cultural tourism  Development of cultural tourism – creation of new cultural routes; reactivation, promotion and improvement of the existing routes (The Cultural Route of the Roman Emperors, Tesla Ways, network of secession cities, cultural route of mining...) multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue  Promotion of multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue - Wealth of Diversity project

10. R ESULTS  Education and professional training of the employees in cultural institutions  Finding new ways of funding of cultural institutions and cultural programs, as well as models of employees’ rewarding and satisfaction  Cooperation in conceiving, applying for international funds support and implementing projects (Creative Europe, IPA funds)  Cultural exchange (of programs and ideas)  Surveys about cultural habits and needs of the population in the Region  Creation and realization of joint programs  Coproduction  Creation of cultural identity of cities, regions and the whole Region  Making regional calendar of cultural events  Long-term thinking and acting in a field of culture – conceiving and implementing of strategic documents of cultural institutions, cities and regions

11. U LTIMATE GOALS – CITIZENS BENEFITS  Raising new generations of visitors and culture devotees, as well as culture creators  Promotion of non-violence and culture of piece  Development of sense of belonging to local community, as well as community of the Region  Affirmation of tolerance in everyday life  Depoliticization  Equality  Better quality of life  Decrease of unemployment  Economic development of the countries in the Region  Fair competition

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