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)
Public workshops and cultural discussions held as part of drafting process, with the workshops focusing on integration and migration in culture, digital transformation in cultural institutions and the strategic focuses of cultural promotion; website set up for online participation: http://www.kulturstrategie-md.de/forums/forum/diskussion/