"Culture 3.0: A new perspective for the EU 2014-2020 structural funds programming".
Article by Pier Luigi Sacco. In spite of the multiplication of successful examples of culture-led local and regional development across Europe and elsewhere, there is a widespread perception that the role and potential of culture in the overall European long-term competitiveness strategy is still seriously underrecognized. This reflects in the difficulty to bring cultural policy issues at the top ranks of the broader policy agenda, and consequently explains why the share of structural funds devoted to culture badly fails to match the share of cultural and creative sectors in total EU value added.
"... For many decision makers and policy officers operating outside the cultural realm, the cultural sectors are at best a minor, low-productivity branch of the economy, largely living on external subsidies, and which is therefore absorbing economic resources more than actually generating them..."
Read the entire article on www.kulturradet.se/Documents/Verksamhet/Internationellt/culture_3.0.pdf
By Pier Luigi Sacco, on behalf of the European Expert Network on Culture (EENC)
Produced for the OMC Working Group on Cultural and Creative Industries, April 2011
