Working Priorities
The Austrian Observatory for Arts and Cultural Education is formed by EDUCULT, a non-profit institute with emphasis on empirical research and consulting in the fields of culture and education, and the OeAD, an agency of the Republic of Austria with its “Cultural Education with Schools” department focusing on the support practice in the fields of culture and education, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Our objective is to raise awareness of the field in the public and political sphere by
- Networking with relevant stakeholders on a national level
- Stimulating the discourse in the field by organizing events, publishing reports, etc.
- Collaboration with the Austrian Commission for UNESCO:
- Raising awareness for the annual UNESCO International Week of Arts Education by specific action taken
- Collaboration in the UNESCO Framework/Roadmap for Culture and Arts Education
- Representation of arts and cultural education in the Austrian UNESCO working group “Cultural Diversity” in the context of the UNESCO-Convention 2005 “Diversity of Cultural Expressions”
- Initiation of a systematic exchange on research projects and results at the level of Austrian universities
- Contribution to specific ENO action fields related to the relationship of research and policy, of researchers and politicians/public servants as cooperation partners or commissioning bodies
- Participation in ENO meetings and related working groups
Working Priorities
The Austrian Observatory for Arts and Cultural Education is formed by EDUCULT, a non-profit institute with emphasis on empirical research and consulting in the fields of culture and education, and the OeAD, an agency of the Republic of Austria with its “Cultural Education with Schools” department focusing on the support practice in the fields of culture and education, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Our objective is to raise awareness of the field in the public and political sphere by