Los cinco primeros conferencistas confirmados para la 6ta. Cumbre Mundial de las Artes y la Cultura comparten una meta en comn: todos ellos trabajan en torno al desarrollo del mundo de la cultura y las artes en sus pases, aunque cada uno de ellos lo hace desde una plataforma particular de trabajo.

IFACCA is pleased to announce that the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (National Council for Culture and the Arts) has provided support for Simn Palominos to be commissioned to prepare a cultural policy profile of Chile as part of WorldCP the international database of cultural policies.

Hosted by the Australia Council for the Arts and IFACCA, the mini-summit on National Policy Frameworks that Support Experimental Arts Practice in a Global Context was held on Friday 14 June 2013 in Sydney, Australia, coinciding with the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Arts . The mini-summit brought together a number of IFACCA member countries, including Canada, Denmark, Chile, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a selection of experts on this topic.

We are delighted to welcome the National Association of Centers for Culture and Education (Chitalishta), Bulgaria, as a new affiliate member.

We are delighted to announce that the WorldCP profile for Algeria is now available at the WorldCP website.

The board and staff members of IFACCA were saddened to hear of the death last week of Prof Colin Mercer, a high-profile and energetic contributor to cultural policy research and debate globally.