The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) in collaboration with Argentina’s Culture Secretariat and Interarts Foundation and supported by the Spaniard Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and Mar del Plata’s University, invite participation at the VI Euroamerican Campus of Cultural Cooperation that will take place in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on March 24-27, 2009. It will be a meeting and exchange venue that continues with the process initiated in the previous editions: Barcelona (2000), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2001), Sevilla (2003), Salvador de Bahia (2005), Almada, Portugal (2007).

The VI Campus suggests reflecting on:

* The need for a better articulation between cultural administration and the scientific-technical dimension within a society where the limits between sectors are becoming weaker.
* The interaction between cultural policies and scientific policies will be a subject to debate on. Experiences and proposals for cooperation will be analysed.
* The proximity of certain creative processes to science makes evident the need for a greater dialogue between them. People who work in such projects will present them.

This event is mainly a venue for exchanging ideas and projects of the cultural field. Therefore it is not strictly an academic encounter, even though we will have as guests well known academics, experts and researchers from both coasts of the Atlantic; nor is it a meeting for artists, although it could not be done without their participation; nor is it a reserved space for people in charge of public policies, although their presence is indispensable to build responsible dreams and ideals for future scenarios.

The Campus expects to generate complicities and synergies that could serve as a solid structure to build bridges between both continents in the public and private spheres, in theory and practice. In this edition, we want to strengthen the processes that previous calls for participation have generated, to support cultural cooperation projects and strengthen cultural networks, and, thus, have more possibilities and capacities to materialize initiatives.

The Campus will concentrate on four activities:

* Discussions departing from papers presented by specialists
* To facilitate the exchange between cultural agents and cultural networks
* To create a space for debate where the cultural specificity of those participating comes alive.
* To favour the contact with and knowledge of the supranational discourses and structures that affect the cultural field.

The communication contact for this event will soon be announced here.

For further information: http://www.interarts.net/newsletter/index.php?p=20&idioma=1