The Cultural Policy Research Award was incorporated in the year 2004 by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Since 2008, this award is developed in association with ENCATC.
This award is designed to promote academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore issues at stake in contemporary Europe. The Cultural Policy Research award aims to contribute to new competence building among young scholars in comparative cultural policy research.
Through the CPRA annual competition, the program partner’s aims to encourage and enable cultural policy researchers to take a step from evaluative (descriptive) to comparative applied research that can inform policymaking and benefit practitioners active in the field. The Award is dedicated to research projects which throw light on contemporary European cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering policy solutions.
Since 2004, seven talented young researchers have won the Award which represents a significant achievement for them in this discipline. This is also significant step in the production of innovative knowledge.
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