Approaches to Participatory Governance of Cultural Institutions

Advocating of the Kultura Nova Foundation on the national level about the importance of sharing responsibility in usage and governance of cultural resources, active engagement of the local community in governing, programming and production of the cultural and artistic contents contributed to the Open Call „Kultura u centru – potpora razvoju javno-civilnog partnerstva u kulturi“ (Culture in the Centre – Support to the civil-public partnership development in culture) initiated by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of Efficient Human Resources Operational Programme and supported by the European Social Fund. Kultura Nova Foundation was actively involved in programming stage of the project and participated in the Working group – advisory body of experts formed by the Ministry of Culture involved in co-creating the Open Call. Due to the activities and visibility accomplished during the “Approaches to Participatory Governance of Cultural Institutions” project implementation, Kultura Nova Foundation has been recognised by many local governments as the institution which can offer expertise and knowledge in the framework of participatory governance in culture and civil-public partnership as many local governments approached the Foundation and proposed cooperation. The activity implementation revealed some challenges in the processes of establishing and developing those innovative cultural institutions but it also pointed out the directions of further activities to be implemented in order to pursue this long term processes which have been underway in Croatia.