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Culture and Development – Putting Theory into Practice
Joint conference held by GTZ and the Goethe Institute in Berlin

On 20–22 November, as part of the international conference on Culture and Development – Putting Theory into Practice, round table participants were joined by experts from the field of politics, culture, science and society to identify new ways of putting theory into practice in cultural policy abroad and development cooperation. by Thorsten WassermeyerMore...

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The diversity of opinion, driven by different points of vantage, presented by the participants in all sincerity, was invaluable in moving forward the issue of Culture and Development.
H.S. Dillon, Jakarta

Investing in culture is the most sustainable form of development cooperation.
Alfred Marseille, Power of Culture, Netherlands

At the conference that took place in Berlin on 20-22 November an interdisciplinary group of international scientists, experts in the field of development cooperation as well as representatives of civil society and government discussed the relationship between culture and development in both its theoretical dimension as well as in practice. The conference stressed that the separation of culture and development was artificial and that it was a positive development that increasingly one thought about them as integral parts again. by Tina GadowMore...