Welcome to The Nordic Cultural Institute website

The Nordic Cultural Institute is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to cultural policy research. The Institute carries out research on a project-by-project basis with support from cultural agencies, institutions and research committees in Denmark, the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe.

The Institute specialises in the analysis and evaluation of modern cultural policy in a comparative and international perspective.

News

• ICCPR Conference in Istanbul, August 19-24th 2008. Since 1998 Peter Duelund has been a member of the scientific committee of the international cultural policy research network International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR). Every second year the network organizes an international scientific conference on cultural policy on a recognized university inside or outside Europe. The first conference was organized at University of Copenhagen in 1997. The latest conference, ICCPR 2008, was organized in Istanbul, Turkey in August 2008 with participation of researchers from all over the world. Peter Duelund was responsible for the preparation and holding of the conference's summarizing debate on Identity and Nationalism in European Cultural Policy. Download the papers presented at the conference and read more about ICCPR 2008 at the website iccpr2008.yeditepe.edu.tr.
• Peter Duelund nominated by The Danish Ministry of Culture. The Danish Ministry of Culture has in June 2006 nominated Head of Research, Peter Duelund from Nordic Cultural Institute as the Danish research member to The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. The compendium is a unique, up-to-date and comprehensive on-line information and monitoring system on cultural developments in Europe providing easy access to data, facts, comparisons and trends as well as summaries of current debates on national cultural policy.
  At present, the system includes some thirty country profiles. The Compendium is a transnational programme initiated by the Council of Europe Culture Committee and Secretariat and has been running since 1998. The Compendium has become a working tool consulted on a daily basis by authorities, institutions and individuals involved in cultural policy making and research not only in Europe but world-wide. It is worked out by independent researchers in the field of Cultural Policy studies. Data and further information for downloading is available on www.culturalpolicies.net.