About the Author

Teunis IJdens, Dr., is a sociologist and policy analist. He studied graphic design at the Academies of Art in Arnheim and Enschede and sociology at the University of Nijmegen. He has worked as a researcher at the universities of Tilburg and Rotterdam. He published numerous studies and evaluation and monitoring reports on cultural and arts policies. Since 2008 he was employed by the Center of Expertise for Cultural Education (Cultuurnetwerk Nederland) and its successor the Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Cultural Education and Amateur Arts (LKCA) as a researcher, head of the research department, policy analist and editor. He co-founded the European Network of Observato-ries in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO). Dr. Benjamin Bolden, music educator and composer, is an associate professor and the UNESCO Chair of Arts and Learning in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada. His research interests include the learning and teaching of composing, creativity, arts-based research, pre-service music teacher education, teacher knowledge, and teachers’ professional learning. As a teacher, Ben has worked with pre-school, elementary, secondary, and university students in Canada, England, and Taiwan. Ben is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre and his compositions have been performed by a variety of professional and amateur performing ensembles. Ernst Wagner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Akademie für Bildende Künste in München, Projekt BKKB: Bildkompetenz in der Kulturellen Bildung: „Was ist und wie fördert man Bildkompetenz?“ Entwicklung eines Messinstruments und Untersuchung der Unterrichtsqualität. Emily Achieng’ Akuno is Associate Professor of music and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a member of INRAE’s steering committee, the International Music Council (IMC) Board and the International Society for Music Education, ISME.
Professor Anne Bamford is Director of the Engine Room at the University of the Arts London and has an international reputation for her research in arts education, emerging literacies and visual communication. Through her research as a World Scholar for UNESCO, she has pursued issues of innovation, social impact and equity and diversity. She has conducted major national impact and evaluation studies for the governments of Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Ana Mae Barbosa, is a full professor at Universidade de São Paulo and Anhembi Morumbi, Emeritus Professor UFPE. Taught at Yale University and The Ohio State University. Visiting scholar at the University of Central England, the University of Texas and Columbia University. Received the National Prize of Scientific Merit (MCT2004) and the National of Cultural Merit (2015) Brazil; The Edwin Ziegfield Award,USA; The Herbert Read International Award; the Achievement Award for Contribution and Leadership in Art Education in the United States; Jabuti for the best book (2016), Itaú Cultural 30 years (2017) among others. She wrote 22 books on Art and Art Education.
Ralitza Bazaytova is a chief expert in art education at the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, Performing arts and art education directorate. She is an art critic and art historian. Ralitza Bazaytova has a master‘s degree in History of art from the National Academy of Fine Arts and in ancient religion and culture at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. She has participated in numerous international conferences devoted to the relationship between education and culture. Member of the international network of experts ACEnet.
Dr. Benjamin Bolden, music educator and composer, is an associate professor and the UNESCO Chair of Arts and Learning in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada. His research interests include the learning and teaching of composing, creativity, arts-based research, pre-service music teacher education, teacher knowledge, and teachers’ professional learning. As a teacher, Ben has worked with pre-school, elementary, secondary, and university students in Canada, England, and Taiwan. Ben is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre and his compositions have been performed by a variety of professional and amateur performing ensembles. Associate Professor Ralph Buck is an award winning teacher and academic leader. Ralph’s research has been featured at the UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education. He is on the International Editorial Boards of Research in Dance Education (RIDE) and Journal of Dance Education (JODE). He has collaborated with UNESCO in raising the profile in Arts Education around the world. He initiated, advocated for and planned UNESCO’s International Arts Education Week. He is on the Executive Council of the World Alliance for Arts Education. Ralph’s research and publications focus upon dance teaching
and learning, and community dance. Gemma Carbo Ribugent, Dr., is Director of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policies and Cooperation at the University of Girona (UdG), Associate Professor at the Department of Education at UdG, Academic Coordinator of the Joint Master’s Degree Programme on Cultural Management of the Open University of Catalonia and the University of Girona and President of ConArte International, an international association that works towards the advancement of arts and cultural education in Catalonia and abroad. Dr. Carbó’s research interests and expertise lie in the fields of cultural and educational policies, education and cultural
diversity.
Ruben Carrillo-Mendez is a professional musician with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education; he is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Educational Innovation; as a rock-jazz guitar player, his research interests focus on informal music learning practices and their application in formal education contexts.
Jessie Hsiao-Shien Chen, Dr. is Professor of music department and Director of General Education in National Taichung University of Education. She serves in the editorial committee of International Journal of Music Education (A&HCI Journal), and was commissioner of ISME Commission on Music in Special Education and Music Therapy (2012-2016). She represents Taiwan in the Board of Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research. She serves as director of Music Educator Association of Taiwan, and was the 7th and 8th President of Taiwan Kodaly Society. Professor Chen is specialized in music teacher training
from early childhood to elementary level.
Ming-Hsien Cheng, Dr. is associate professor in the Department of art and graduate institute of art education at the National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan. Dr. Cheng earned his PhD of Art Education from The Ohio State University, 2002. His specialty is mainly on aesthetic response to visual image. He is interested in curriculum development of art education and pre-service art teacher education. Dr. Cheng has conducted several nation-wide projects on the topic of achievement assessment for elementary and secondary school art education
and served in the Committee of National Curriculum Guideline 1 to 12 of Arts.
Samia Elsheikh, Prof. Dr. , received her PhD through a channel program between the two Universities of Helwan and New York in 1993. She is a Professor of Art Education, teaches hand weaving, at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Egypt and the King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. She was a visiting professor, teaching fiber arts at the American University in Cairo. She is a member in national and international organizations, and vice president of InSEA. Her research interests have spanned in-service arts education and fiber arts issues. Her last publication is about art education in the Middle East: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education. She has been showing her art works in solo and group shows.
Ligia Ferro, Dr., is Professor in the Sociology Department at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto, Portugal. She is member of the ENO – European Network of Observatories in the Fields of Arts and Cultural Education board and of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association. Dr. Ferro authored and edited several publications, including “Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life” (2018, Springer) and “Ideapuzzle” (2016, Academy of Management Learning & Education). Her research interests include cultural practices, arts education, migration, socio-professional integration and action research, especially in urban contexts.
Patricia A. Gonzalez-Moreno, Dr., is Full Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, Mexico. Her published research includes studies on motivation, creativity, teacher education, higher education, knowledge mobilization, and professional development in music and arts education. She is acknowledged as National Researcher by the National
Council for Science and Technology in Mexico and has served as
a Board Member of the International Society for Music Education and chair of the ISME Advocacy Standing Committee (2012-2016).
Folkert Haanstra, Emeritus professor, studied psychology and Fine Art. From 2000-2015 he held the special chair for Cultural Education and Cultural Participation at the University Utrecht. From 2001-2016 he was Professor of Arts Education at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Yu Jin Hong, is leading manager of the policy research team at Korea Arts & Culture Education Service (KACES) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea. She received her PhD in cultural sociology (cultural policy) from Ewha Womans University and worked on various projects on cultural contents industry policy at Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) as prior experience. Currently, she is conducting researches and forums to establish policies and strategies for the quality growth of arts and culture education at KACES.
Teunis IJdens, Dr., is a sociologist and policy analist. He studied graphic design at the Academies of Art in Arnheim and Enschede and sociology at the University of Nijmegen. He has worked as a researcher at the universities of Tilburg and Rotterdam. He published numerous studies and evaluation and monitoring reports on cultural and arts policies. Since 2008 he was employed by the Center of Expertise for Cultural Education (Cultuurnetwerk Nederland) and its successor the Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Cultural Education and Amateur Arts (LKCA) as a researcher, head of the research department, policy analist and editor. He co-founded the European Network of Observato-ries in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO). Edwina Issa, Creative Director of Creative Projects and Project Leader of the Jordan Team of Trojan Women Projects UK, an expert in Drama in Education. She served two terms as the Vice President of the International Drama & Theatre in Education Association GMC (IDEA). The major contributor to the Jordan Drama Strategies Teaching Guide, Ministry of Education. She lectures globally, trains drama teachers, examines theatre and works in the use of drama for conflict resolution. Her recent work employs drama and music therapy amongst Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians. She is currently engaged in a visibility project for the World Food Programme using drama strategies
to generate lyrics for an original song by aid recipients to sustain the goals of the WFP. A consultant for the Royal Film Commission Jordan she trains actors for the film industry.
Professor für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt Kultur und ästhetische Bildung an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Projekt DiKuJu: Postdigitale kulturelle Jugendwelten – Entwicklung neuer Methodeninstrumente zur Weiterentwicklung der Forschung zur Kulturellen Bildung in der digitalen und postdigitalen Welt. Andrea Karpati, Prof. Dr., is Professor of Education at the Constantine the Philosopher University, Faculty of Central European Studies, Nitra, Slovakia where she teachers Aesthetic Education and Museum Learning in the Hungarian language Kindergarten and primary school teacher education program. She is member of the European Network of Visual Literacy.
Her research foci: visual language of children and adolescents, youth subcultures, digital literacy and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics: creating synergies of science and arts education.
Professorin und Direktorin der Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung des Bundes und des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in Remscheid, Projekt DiKuJu: Postdigitale kulturelle Jugendwelten – Entwicklung neuer Methodeninstrumente zur Weiterentwicklung der Forschung zur Kulturellen Bildung in der digitalen und postdigitalen Welt. Gihan Farouk Aboul Kheir is an associate professor at the faculty of specific Education – Alexandria university. She teaches critics and history of art. Gihan is a member of InSEA, the International society for Education through Art and participated in most of the conferences by InSEA, which was in Daegu/Korea in 2017. She is an artist & art educator who committed to Art Education & research through participating in many art projects throughout the region of Africa & the Middle East, and supervising many Master & PhD programs at the universities of Egypt.
Dr. Magali Kleber is a retired professor at the State University of Londrina. Kleber holds a master’s and doctoral degree in Music Education and postdoctoral in Ethnomusicology. Her doctoral thesis was nominated for award of the Brazilian Foundation “Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel”, being one of the references in the field of social projects in music. She is currently member of the Board of Directors of International Society for Music Education – ISME – and president of the Londrina Music Festival Association; member of Community Music Activity Commission (CMA) since 2006. She coordinates important music education events, notably the 31st ISME World Conference in Porto Alegre and the 14th CMA Seminar in Salvador, Brazil, in 2014; 11th ISME Latin America Regional Conference. She was president of the Brazilian Music Education Association (ABEM).
Alexander Leicht, Dr., is Chief of the Section of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education at UNESCO. UNESCO was the lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and now leads the implementation of the Global Action Programme on ESD, which aims at scaling up ESD in the areas of policy, education institutions, educators, youth, and local communities.
Chyi-Chang Li, Dr., is associate professor of Th e Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Instruction (GSAHI), National Taiwan University of Arts. GSAHI is based on an exploration of three academic fields: visual (arts), auditory (music) and kinesthetically (drama and dance). He is interested in directing, acting and performing arts education, and was the editor of Research in Arts Education in 2016 and 2017. Currently, he is the Co-Principal Investigator of Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Education Project of Developing Experimental Courses in Elementary and Secondary Schools (2014-2018).
Prof. Dr. Eckart Liebau, studied pedagogy, sociology, political science and history in Goettingen and Muenchen 1967-1974. He carried out scientific pedagogical projects at the universities of Goettingen, Kassel, Hamburg and Tuebingen 1974-1987. Doctorate in pedagogy 1979, Heisenberg-Scholarship of the DFG (Award of the German Research Foundation) 1988-1992, Chair of pedagogy at the Institute of Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1992-2014. Since 2010 UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and since 2013 Chairman of the Council for Cultural Education in Germany.
John Lievens, Dr., is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Ghent University (Belgium), where he teaches several courses in statistics and demography. His research focuses on culture and art participation, art and cultural education, lifestyles, sexual behavior, and partner choice in ethnic minorities. He coordinated several large interuniversity research projects on participation and was responsible for the organization of several large-scale surveys on participation in Flanders.
Chee-Hoo Lum is associate professor of music education with the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also the Head of the UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), part of a region-wide network of Observatories stemming from the UNESCO Asia-Pacifi c Action Plan. Chee-Hoo’s research interests include issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education, children’s musical cultures, creativity and improvisation, and elementary music methods. Alfdaniels Mabingo is currently pursuing his PhD in Dance studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he also serves as a Professional Teaching Fellow of East African dances. He’s also an Assistant lecturer of Dance at Makerere University, Uganda. Mabingo’s areas of research are: pedagogies of African dances, dance in higher education, community dance and exchange/study abroad programs in dance. Camila Malig Jedlicki is a sociologist. She worked as an intern at LKCA (Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Cultural Education and Amateur Arts) in a research related to the MONAES project with Dr. Teunis IJdens. Her areas of research are: arts education, cultural participation and cultural heritage. She is finishing her MSc studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, in the Research Master Sociology of Culture, Media & the Arts. She has worked previously as a research assistant for several universities in Chile.
Geronimo Mendoza-Meraz, Prof., is Chairman of the Doctorate in Education, Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua (Mexico). He has directed different research projects about learning and educational psychology; he is currently participating in a large research project with multiple partners from the USA and Mexico, on what and how children learn in vulnerable contexts. His main area of research is conceptions and approaches to learning.
Samuel Nortey, Dr., is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Art, College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is the Graduate Programme Coordinator in his Department. He has chaired several Conferences and Exhibitions Organizing Committees including the 2017 Network of African Designers Conference held in Ghana. Dr. Nortey had worked extensively on educating and developing the frontiers of art production especially pottery and ceramics in Ghana. He has served as an active and esteemed member of notable arts education editorial boards providing reviews and support.
Larry O’Farrell is Professor emeritus and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University, Canada, Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Network for Arts and Learning and Chair, Steering Committee, International Network for Research in Arts Education, and served as President of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association. Larry is Honorary Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and recipient of the Campton Bell Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. John O’Toole was Foundation Chair of Arts Education at the University of Melbourne and before that Professor of Drama and Applied Theatre at Griffith University, Queensland. From 2010-2012 he was Lead Writer for the Arts in the Australian Curriculum. He was a founder-member of IDEA, and earlier of Drama Australia and Drama Queensland. IDEA Director of Publications from 1996-2004, he co-convened the 2nd IDEA World Congress in 1995. In 2001 he was awarded the American Alliance for Th eatre and Education Lifetime Research Award. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to drama education. Dr. Alejandra Orbeta Green is Director of Bachelor in Arts Education from Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile. She has worked in schools and universities and has coordinated consultancies in public policy projects to Ministry of Education and National Council of Culture and the Arts in Chile. Her research has focused on the theories and approaches of arts education, the didactics of the visual arts and the public policy of artistic education.
Nevelina I. Pachova is researcher with the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policies and Cooperation at the University of Girona. She conducts research on the role of culture and the arts in development processes and actions and supports the development, implementation and evaluation of projects and programs in the fi eld of international development and cultural cooperation. Prior to joining the UNESCO Chair, Nevelina worked with different agencies of the United Nations in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.
Joan Parr is Head of Creative Learning and Young People at Creative Scotland, the national agency for the arts, screen and creative industries. She has also held positions in embassies in West Africa and the Middle East. Joan is a graduate from Edinburgh University with an MA honours degree in history and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Dundee University. Her current remit includes a national strategic overview of creative learning, the national Creative Learning Plan, arts and justice, the development of the national youth arts strategy and the delivery of national programmes. Joan is also the current president of ACEnet, a network of European policy makers. She is passionate about the value of the arts and creativity as part of fulfilled, healthier, happier individuals and communities.
Tia Reihana-Morunga (Ngāti Hine) has worked extensively in Indigenous arts education in in Australia, United Kingdom and Aotearoa, New Zealand. Currently a professional teaching fellow at the University of Auckland lecturing in dance education, history, and Contemporary Māori Performance, Tia also works extensively in Indigenous health. A doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, her research explores community and formal sites of arts education, informed by Indigenous ways of knowing and doing.
Gloria P. Zapata Restrepo is a music educator with a master in Psychopedagogy from Antioquia University (Medellin-Colombia) and a PhD in Music Psychology and Education from Roehampton University (U.K.). Currently she works as a Research Coordinator of the School of Music at Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas in Bogotá. She is the Chair of the Colombian Society of Researchers in Music Psychology and Education – PSICMUSE. Emelda Ngufor Samba is senior lecturer and Head of the Performing Arts and Cinematography Section of the University of Yaounde I, and CEO of the Universal Language Training Centre (ULTC) in Nsam, Yaounde, Cameroon. Holder of a PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany in African Theatre and Drama, and a Higher Teacher’s Training Diploma in English Modern Letters from the Higher Teachers’ Training College, Yaounde Cameroon, she worked as teacher of English with the Ministry of Secondary Education in Cameroon for close to thirteen years and is now teaching Performing Arts and African Theatre at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. As coordinator of People Theatre and Cinema for Social Change, (PTCSC), she has run several workshops on theatre and social change with children, women, and farmers, in rural communities, centres for the disabled, rehabilitation centres for juveniles, prisons, secondary schools and universities.
Glorife Samodio, De La Salle University, Philippines, is an arts manager with extensive work experience in advertising and public relations. She was a recipient of the Kennedy Center international fellowship program grant for arts managers in 2010. She has shared her knowledge and insights in arts management conferences in the Philippines, Australia, and other Asian countries. Currently, she is the Culture and Arts Director of De La Salle University, Philippines, an active volunteer at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Vice President of the Association of Cultural Offi ces in Philippine Educational Institutions, Inc. and a country governor of the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion.
Aud Berggraf Sabo, Dr., is a professor emerita at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where she thaught drama and theatre in education. She has led four national funded Drama in Education research projects on drama and student active learning. Th e two latest were action based projects on Drama, creativity and aesthetic learning processes (2007-2010) and on Drama and creativity for rich literacy and democracy (2014-2016). She has been engaged in several international projects on drama and arts education. Dr. Sæbø has published several textbooks for teacher education, primary and secondary school, research reports
and many research articles. She was the editor for the INRAE 2016 Yearbook.
Shifra Schonmann is Professor Emerita, holder of the Bar-Netzer Chair of Education, Society and Theatre for Young People at the University of Haifa, Israel. The continuing areas of her research are: aesthetics, theatre-drama education, theatre for young people, curriculum, and teacher education. She has published numerous articles as well as books, including: International yearbook for research in arts education, Vol. 3, Th e wisdom of the many – Key issues in arts education (Waxmann). She is an invited speaker in international conferences, a member of the Editorial Board of several leading journals and a member of INRAE’s steering committee. Rosa M. Serrano, Dr., is professor of the Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza. Co-editor of the “Revista Internacional de Educación Musical” hosted by ISME, member of the research groups “Cognition, Language, Learning and Life Cycle”, University of Zaragoza, and “Research in Music Education”, University of Granada, is member of the R&D IMPACTMUS Project, Impact of Music Education for the Knowledge Society and Economy. Her most important lines of research are developed in relation to the Didactics of Music, ICT, active methodologies and curricular
design in music education.
Caroline Sharp is a Research Director at the National Foundation for Educational Research, the UK’s largest independent provider of research and evaluation for education and training. Caroline has directed numerous research studies of arts, creative and cultural education for children and young people, including national evaluations of Creative Partnerships and In Harmony. Her international work includes: a review of arts, creative and cultural education in 19 educational systems; an international review of progression and assessment in the arts; and a comparative study of art and culture at school in Europe.
Jessy Siongers, Dr., is affiliated to the Department of Sociology at Ghent University and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is coordinator of the Knowledge Centre on Cultural and Media Participation and supervisor of the Youth Research Platform; both are interdisciplinary and interuniversity consortiums. Jessy Siongers is also a member of the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO). Her main research interests are situated within the domains of cultural sociology, sociology of education and sociology of youth. Within these research domains she has published among others
on cultural preferences and values of adolescents, cultural participation, cultural education, values education at school, cultural profi les of teachers, and the socio-economic situation of professional artists.
Dr Barbara Snook is a Professional Teaching Fellow and Professional Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. She is currently engaged in researching the use of an arts-rich pedagogy in primary school classrooms. Barbara was the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance at the University of Otago in 2008. She is a successful author of dance text-books used widely in Australia and New Zealand and was the recipient of an Osmotherly Award for services toward the development of Dance Education in Queensland Australia in 2007. Her early career was as a High School teacher of drama and dance in Brisbane High Schools. Teresa M. Tipton, Dr. is an Arts Educator, Curriculum Specialist and Researcher with over thirty five years experience internationally. A former Senior Lecturer at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic, her research in visual semiosis innovated the use of meta-cognition in the arts using dialogic and refl ective practices. As an educational consultant, she has innovated curriculum; museum and teacher education; on-line teaching materials; and secured grants for community initiatives. She is currently editing the book, One’s Own Path to Art with Marie Fulková and teaching secondary art internationally.
Dr. Lisa Unterberg is researcher at the Chair of Pedagogy with a Focus on Culture and Aesthetic Education at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Recently she works in the meta-research project “Digitalization in Arts and Cultural Education”. Ernst Wagner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Akademie für Bildende Künste in München, Projekt BKKB: Bildkompetenz in der Kulturellen Bildung: „Was ist und wie fördert man Bildkompetenz?“ Entwicklung eines Messinstruments und Untersuchung der Unterrichtsqualität. Michael Wimmer is director of EDUCULT, a European research institution on cultural and education policy issues, since 2003. With a professional background as music educator and political scientist, Michael Wimmer gained comprehensive experiences in the cooperation between the arts, culture and education. He is a lecturer at the three Universities in Vienna . He is a consultant of the Austrian Ministry for Education, Culture and the Arts. On the international level, Michael Wimmer is consultant of the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the European Commission. He is member of the EU Expert Network on Culture and of the scientific committee of the International Conference for Cultural Policy Research.
Rolf D. Witte, studied Social Work at the Freiburg University for Applied Sciences. From 1990 to 1995 he was the director of the Bayreuth International Cultural Youth Centre and the French-German Forum of Young Artists. Since 1996 he has been the International Relations Officer of BKJ, the German Federation for Arts Education and Cultural Learning. Rolf is a member of the German Council for the European Youth in Action Programme, the Council for European Cultural Politics of the German Cultural Council and the National Coalition for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.