Summer school "Europe and Culture in Debate" (31st August, 1st and 2nd September 2011) will be held in Paris and organised by Relais Culture Europe in the frame of the project SOSTENUTO, Thinking culture as a factor of economic and social innovation.

The European Union and its Member States are defining currently the political strategic and budgetary priorities for the next ten years. These negotiations are carried out in a context of multiple crises making difficult to see clearly: How to take into account the worldwide interactions? Which could be our options? In the middle of which challenges could we place culture? More than multiplying the questions and letting think to easy answers, it appears necessary to open the public debate, to exchange ideas. For the first edition of this summer school, we have then opted to open very widely the fields of perspective, i.e. to raise the cultural question in Europe in reference to changes in the world.

Expeditio representative participated in the Tunis Exchange Forum – Building Plural and Democratic Societies, which took place in Tunisia, on 23-26 June 2011. ·The Exchange Forum was organized by the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF), Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, in partnership with the Foundation for the Future and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sweden and, in close collaboration with the Tunisian Network and the Club Unesco Bardo.

The Employment Agency of Montenegro and Expeditio signed the agreement on implementation of the local public work entitled “Culture – the Identity of Boka”. The activities of this project relate to the research into cultural practices/habits of citizens (by means of telephone questionnaire) and mapping of cultural potentials/resources of Kotor, Herceg Novi, and Tivat. These activities contribute to the process of drafting local programmes for the development of culture in the above municipalities from 2011 to 2015.

We would like to use this opportunity to inform you of the progress in drafting the programme for the development of culture in the municipalities of Kotor, Tivat, and Herceg Novi from 2011 to 2015. Additionally, we would like once again to express our gratitude to all the participants in the process. Up to date, more than 220 persons from different fields of culture (music, theatre, cultural heritage, architecture, photography, visual arts etc.) and different sectors (public sector, independent entities, amateur associations, individuals etc.) have been involved.

To find what has been done so far and what are the next steps in the process of drafting the programme for the development of culture of the municipalities Kotor, Tivat, and Herceg Novi from 2011 to 2015, please read the text below. Any advice and further involvement in the process is welcome.

Expeditio has launched a poll on the territory of the municipalities Kotor, Tivat, and Herceg Novi in order to get information about cultural practices and habits of citizens. This activity is a part of the analysis which will be used to develop local programmes of cultural development in the municipalities of Boka Kotorska from 2011 to 2015. Information are collected by means of dialing 250 random telephone numbers in each of the three above municipalities. The questions asked to the citizen relate to the type of music they listen, frequency of visiting theatre and cinema, the amount of time spent on reading, type of literature most frequently read etc. The data will be analysed in order to obtain an insight into the cultural habits of citizens. The citizens contacted by pollsters (random sampling) are kindly asked to be cooperative and help by answering the questions. The poll lasts app. 15 minutes.