The European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers, ENCATC is holding a round table as part of its activities organized in the framework of the ENCATC working group on “Cultural Observatories and Cultural Information and Knowledge?” set up in 2007 with the aim of:

• providing useful information to organisms in charge of the observation of cultural phenomena:• clarifying the role and nature of cultural observatories
• innovating on cultural information systems
• strengthening the collaboration between cultural observatories in terms of exchange ofinformation and knowledge
• supplying cultural managers useful information
• recognising what kind of skills and knowledge (methodologies, information systems, etc.) are needed for cultural managers acting for gathering and interpreting cultural data.
• introducing didactic options in the teaching and learning of methodologies for gathering dataabout cultural supply and demand.
• improving the links / connections between the researchers, academic sector and professionals.