ELIA’s comments on the Green Paper

On 27 April, the European Commission launched its Green Paper Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries for public consultation. For the first time ever a European Policy Paper on the cultural and creative industries has been published. It is also for the first time that it mentions the role of the art schools. You can read more about it in a previous post. Below, you can read ELIA’s comments. You can also download them as a pdf.

Following the Tuning track

ELIA is involved in a European project Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Arts and Humanities, following the Tuning track. Its main task is to develop descriptions for the 3rd-5th cycle of the European qualifications, which are the qualifications possibly leading to higher arts education. It will be particularly interesting and useful for colleagues who develop special programmes to attract talented people, without proper educational backgrounds, involvement in secondary education and foundation programmes.

The project launch will take place in Thessaloniki 1- 2 October 2010. The other groups within the project from the arts (music, architects) and the humanities will also meet there and we will have some joint sessions. The project is organized by TUNING,  the organizers will cover travel and accommodation costs. Please let me know as soon as possible.

truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org

Paradox in Granada

Meeting of the ELIA Fine Arts Section
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Granada, 24-25 June

Loosing your luggage is never a good way to start a meeting overseas but such is life. After 13 hours traveling, including a delayed flight from Heathrow, I was checking into the hotel without my bag, which was probably languishing somewhere in Madrid. What was surprising was the ‘mater-of-fact’ness with which the Iberian staff in Granada treated the 6 travelers from the same flight in the same situation, as if it was only to be expected! Later that evening, during a stroll into town, I bumped into Kevin Atherton (Dublin) and Christine Pybus (Cork) – what are the chances of that in the crowed streets of a major city…

Day 1

The first meeting wasn’t scheduled until late afternoon, which gave us time to explore the town during the day. Despite our host leaving each of us a full conference-type bag of goodies at the hotel reception we still weren’t quite sure of where we were going. So meeting at reception meant at least we’d all get lost together. As it happened, Isidro Lopez-Aparico (Granada) met us half way across Fuente del Triunfo and led us to our meeting point. Juhani Jarvinen (Lahti) was already there and before too long we were joined by Maia Mancuso and Maria-Antonietta Malleo (Palermo). Sean Cummins (Nottingham) and Enrique Martinez Leal (Cuenca) and Ana Garcia Lopez (Granada) complete the steering group for this meeting … time for business.