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UNeECC General Assembly and Conference, Liverpool, 16-17 October, 2008

Call for papers

The University Network of the European Capitals of Culture has the pleasure to announce you the UNeECC General Assembly and Conference held on 16-17 October, 2008 in Liverpool, this year’s European Capital of Culture.

The title of the Conference is ‘Whose Culture?’. Please find the Call for Papers for the Conference here.

The deadline for submitting the Papers is 1 April, 2008.

UNeECC Board Meeting at the University of Luxemburg, 8 January 2008

The University Network of European Capitals of Culture (UNeECC), which was created on the initiative of the University of Pécs in December 2006 and comprizes over 40 members from 18 countries, held its biannual Board Meeting at the University of Luxemburg on 8 January 2008. The network links institutions of higher education that are situated in past, present and future European Capitals of Culture (ECC) and wants to provide academic support for their cities through research in the cultural and socio-economic sphere and by actively participating in ECC-events.

During the meeting the Board decided on the theme (Whose culture(s)?) and timing of its annual conference, which will take place on 16-17 October in Liverpool Hope University. Furthermore UNeECC will take steps to create an Intensive Programme on Cultural Management, in association with the ECCs.

After lunch, the Board was received by M P. Helminger, Mayor of the City of Luxemburg, and M R. Garcia, Director of the Luxemburg 2007 ECC Programme. Both M. Helminger and M Garcia provided the Board with interesting insights in how University-ECC collaboration might develop in the future.

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President address

Dear visitor,

Welcome to the site of UNeECC, the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture.

UNeECC is a unique academic network since its member universities are all located in cities which have been, are or will be European C-Capitals of Culture. As such, UNeECC not only aspires to stimulate regular academic cooperation, i.e. education and research, between its members, but also aims at developing and reshaping the universities’ regional position. UNeECC wants to foster collaboration between cities and universities and is convinced that together ‘town’ and ‘gown’ will contribute to the success of the European Capitals of Culture.

The network now comprises over 40 member universities from about 20 countries, from North to South and East to West, from both ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU Member States, as well as from Candidate countries. UNeECC includes institutions with a long-standing tradition as well as recently founded universities. They all share a true vocation in the development of a more outspoken European dimension in their research and education and the engagement to join up forces with local authorities to strengthen the impact of the European Capitals of Culture by giving academic support to the organization of the programmes and initiating additional events aimed at specific audiences.

‘Thinking European and acting regional’ is a UNeECC-ly added academic value we can offer since it emanates from our cultural diversity, exchange of ideas and international collaboration, and our thirst for new challenges and opportunities. We invite all our colleague universities in past, present and future European Capitals of Culture to join our network and share their experience and aspirations with us.

Looking forward to meeting you at our next general assembly and conference in October in Sibiu, ECC in 2007.

Prof. dr. Flora Carrijn

President

About UNEECC

The University Network of the European Capitals of Culture (UNeECC), an international non-profit ass ociation, was founded in Pécs Hungary in December 2006, by 40 founding members.

The creation of UNeECC originates from the idea that it would be useful for Universities and establishments of Higher Education based in European Capitals of Culture to use this well known and prestigious European institution to stimulate new forms of academic and educational institutional collaboration.
Read more about UNeECC

European Capital of Culture

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one year during which it is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and cultural development. A number of European cities have used the City of Culture year to transform completely their cultural base and, in doing so, the way in which they are viewed internationally. Read more about ECC

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