INCLUDE, The Cultural Manager as Key Agent for Local Development

The contents of this publication are results from the action-research program INCLUDE carried out in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The INCLUDE Project was designed by the Interarts Foundation in the framework of the Leonardo Da Vinci Programme (Formerly DG XXI: Education and Youth), financed by the European Commission. The main objectives of the INCLUDE project have been to analyse and evaluate cultural policies, projects, programmes and methodologies concerning employment creation within the cultural sector in order to propose a curriculum design for cultural managers as local development agents. One of the main objectives of the INCLUDE Project was to provide a curriculum design built specifically for the cultural management training in order to recognized the role of the Cultural Manager as key agent for local development. The curriculum design introduced in this edition is one of the first of its kind and has been already successfully implemented in training.