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« A la mode à la mode » - From Paris Fashion Week to Beijing "Chic" - «时髦的模式»-从巴黎时装周到北京国际服装服饰博览会
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"A la mode à la mode" - From Paris Fashi...
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS IN ORGANISATIONS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO STIMULATE INNOVATION
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Artistic interventions are very much advocated to spread all over Europe. This is at least how the future seems to look as confirmed by the great interest raised by the final conference of Creative Clash[1]. This EU project, on the...
Transfers of players: PART 2 - TRANSFER FEES, FREE MOVEMENT, “BUY-OUT” CLAUSES
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Under European law, transfer must respect the following principles[1]: i) They must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner; ii) They must be justified by overriding reasons in the public interest; iii) They must be suitable for securing the attain...
Transfers of players: Towards a new regulatory framework to acquire a new legitimacy?
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(this article in French here) If transfers of players have become the focus of much attention and continue to make headlines, this is both due to their extravagant amount as well as their irrational nature and also the fact that...
European? What about Union?
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G1000 is a civil society initiative to consider alternative ways to make policy choices in a country (Belgium) that has lost any sense of direction and collective purpose. It published its final report on ideas to resolve the crisis of...
The proposed Universal/EMI merger: why should we care?
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The proposed Universal/EMI merger in recorded music not only raises serious issues from an anti-trust perspective, policy makers and citizens, including music lovers, are not sufficiently alerted to the issues raised by such a mega concentration in t...
Get ready for Smart Specialisation Strategies: Supporting cities and regions to raise EU regional funds for culture and creative industries
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The European Commission (EC) has recently issued its proposal for the 2014-2020 Cohesion Policy. With a budget of over € 376 billion for the new funding period, European regional policy represents over one-third of the EU budget. However, access to...
Verdict: guilty. Criminal law applies to match-fixing
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Match-fixing has been the focus of the sport policy agenda over recent months. Betting scandals, sportsmen in the dock, ongoing investigations on the manipulation of sport results[1] but also the determination of betting and sport organisations to fi...
Grand opening of the Tartu creative center in Estonia. Creative incubation at its best.
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Towards Creative Europe - Interview with Philippe Kern - 15/3/2012 by Berk Vaher Estonian version extracted from Lehter.eu http://www.keanet.eu/docs/interview%20PK%20estonia%20032012.pdf - How would you summarise KEA's mission and experience in the c...
Press Release - KiiCS: a new pan-European project gathering creative people, scientists and young adults in a process of co-creation for innovation
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KiiCS (Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science), a 3-year European Commission-funded project (2012-2014), was launched today in Brussels by its 12 partners - including KEA. Led by ECSITE, the European network of science centres an...
Rem Koolhaas and Luc Tuymans share their vision of Europe - video link below
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Europe must have resonance beyond the resolution of financial crisis and regulatory issues. Rem Koolhaas and Luc Tuymans share the ambition to change perceptions of Europe. At the event from the organisation "Untitled’ (sans-titre)”, which t...
EU/China Year of Intercultural Dialogue - Launch Conference
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Philippe Kern will be a key-note speaker at the launch conference of the EU/China Year of Intercultural Dialogue taking place in Brussels on 2 February 2012 at Bozar Programme...
How EU Member States deal with Orphan works: KEA publishes a new survey on planned and implemented solutions to the orphan works question
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KEA has conducted a study on behalf of the British Film Institute (BFI) on audiovisual orphan works in Europe. This study provides a general overview on how the different EU Member States deal with the problem of orphan works. The...
Welcome to the world of “Creative Partnership”
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Creative partnership sounds very much like a marketing or religious slogan, the promise of a better world where “creativity” mingles with altruistic behaviours “partnership”. Both words “creative” and “partnership” trigger positive fe...
Rendons l’ Europe empathique et altruiste!
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L’Europe est un acquis institutionnel. Elle reste à devenir une réalité socioculturelle. Le philosophe Jürgen Habermas, dans son texte « Rendons l’Europe plus démocratique ! » publié dans Le Monde du 26 octobre, identifie deux obstacles m...
The meaning of Europe? The meaning of a European Cultural Forum?
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The European Cultural Forum has just taken place in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2011. Every year the Forum gathers institutions and organisations involved and interested in the making of cultural policy at European level. The themes of the...
Premier League EU Court’s decision set new limit to contractual freedom in copyright
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In its awaited decision on the Premier League case rendered on 4 October the EU Court of Justice has concluded the following: 1. The sale, import or use of conditional access devices cannot be restricted unless the devices are illicit....
Hommage
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Jean-François Michel, le fondateur du European Music Office (EMO) , est mort le 23 juillet dernier. Avec lui l’Europe perd l’un des plus ardents défenseurs, un champion de la cause culturelle. Je n’oublierais jamais que Jean-François a été...
