speakers

Nina Obuljen

Nina Obuljen, The State Secretary at the Croatian Ministry of Culture, graduated both from the Academy of Music and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. She holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Zagreb. Until her appointment as Assistant Minister of Culture in 2006, she worked as a research fellow at the Institute for International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia. Nina Obuljen is the author of several articles in the field of cultural policy focusing in particular on the issues of the EU integration, transformations of cultural policies and cultural diversity. In July 2004 Nina Obuljen has been awarded the European Cultural Policy Research Award for her research on the impact of the EU enlargement on cultural policies which was published in the book Why we need European Cultural Policies: impact of EU enlargement on countries in transition, Amsterdam, 2006. In collaboration with Joost Smiers, she edited a book entitled UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: Making it Work, Zagreb 2006

UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: challenges for creative industries 

Since the beginning of negotiations for the adoption of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, one of the issues addressed by this legal instrument was the concern with major imbalances in trade and exchanges of cultural goods and services in globalized world. In this early stage of the implementation of the Convention it is necessary to look at the potential of the Convention to be used as an instrument for dealing with challenges of creative industries. In other words, it is pertinent to ask whether this Convention can be used to improve the capacity for the production of cultural goods and services or to promote mobility in cultural sector. Which policies and measures can be implemented in order to facilitate distribution and participation of cultural goods and services? European Agenda for Culture in a Globalizing World adopted in 2007 represents another milestone in re?ecting about current and future policy-making and is fully in line with the main principles and goals of the UNESCO Convention. This is why it is necessary to look at complementary aspects of both documents in order to set guidelines for informed and proactive policy- making in greater European cultural area.

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