Culture manifests itself in everything human, including everyday business, political, and intellectual life. Cultural values influence negotiations and creativity in the environments where all of us - the city planner, the politician, the teacher, the business leader, the curator and the spectator - are forced into the relationship between economics and culture.

This course examines how that relationship affects our work and has influence the work of others. It explores the tension between the world of economics and the world of the arts, the practices of cultural entrepreneurship, the challenge of financing precious works, the functioning of the art market, the role of the national and international cultural policies, the impact of creativity in the modern economy.

Program
The aim of the Value of Culture program is to connect theoretical and practical conversations. Participants will take part in debates on recent thought in cultural economics and cultural entrepreneurship, and learn from actual cases in the Netherlands and abroad.

As part of the process participants will learn by interacting with texts, teachers, and each other.

Participants will be divided into small groups to complete a common project

Participants will investigate their own creative talents to figure out how they can exploit those in their study or work.

The program includes special sessions for professionals in which they will discuss their issues with experts in their fields of interest.

There will also be tutorials in economics for students who wish to pursue a master with economics as a prerequisite, such as Erasmus Master on “Cultural economics and cultural entrepreneurship” (Please contact us for further details)

Faculty
The course is led by professor Arjo Klamer, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The faculty comprises internationally recognized scholars in economics of culture and cultural entrepreneurs. They are coming from Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands.  

Who can apply
•Professionals working for or with private and public cultural institutions
•Lecturers, researches and students who are interested in cultural management, policies and studies.
•Curious people who would like to now more about the subject