Main aims:
Developing longer-term governance guidelines to underpin robust cultural infrastructure that promotes diversity of cultural expression in cities with due consideration to demographic and digital change; implementing global Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
Target groups:
City society and administration; stakeholders funding, creating and/or interested in cultural content
Expected results:
* Safeguarding, strengthening and expanding diverse cultural content
* Setting objectives and concrete measures of municipal cultural policy for the coming years and creating planning certainty for cultural actors
* Signposting the inclusion of cultural policy in city-wide planning and urban development
* Identifying and protecting the public's cultural interests
* Promoting the transcultural openness of city society
* Establishing and transmitting cities' image as cultural sites across Germany and internationally
* Bringing the activities of city administrations into line with the vision of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Possibilities, principles and problem-solving strategies of future cultural affairs policy discussed at a structural level with various stakeholders; specific policy requirements formulated; 2019 Cultural Development Planning published, with a focus on five key cross-cutting issues: (1) diversity, (2) creating spaces for art and culture, (3) bringing art and culture into the public sphere, (4) increasing financial support, (5) continuing cultural development planning as a participatory process; first Holger Czukay Prize for Pop Music, with EU15,000 in prize money, awarded in 2019 in implementation of a Council cultural development planning decision