Activities – Past

2019:

• CONFERENCE (Paris) – UKCCD participates in submission from civil society organisations to Conference of Parties in UNESCO

2018:

• Took part in the Cultural Diversity: How to sustain it in the Digital Era conference at the European Parliament (January)

2017:

• Participated in research and write-up of first Civil Society Report submitted to UNESCO Cultural Secretariat

2016:

• Citizens campaign for Public Service Broadcasting – campaign leaflet

• April: Partnering with the European Movement to form Creatives4Europe and bringing together a network of creative industry/arts/culture organisations to lobby for REMAIN – launched at the House of Lords

2015:

• Submission to the Government Consultation on the Future of the BBC advocating, inter alia, an independent model of governance (September)

• Campaigning to include cultural targets in Post Millennium Development Goals

• International Context for National Cultural Strategy & Review on creative industries and the digital economy – Submission to Labour Party (February)

2014:

• UKCCD partners with European coalitions for Brussels event on ‘Culture in EU External Relations’

• February: Took part in the Fiscal Regulation conference in Brussels

  • Fiscal Regulation press release

2013:

• UK Quadrennial Review – Advised UK National Commission and DCMS on final submission of 4-year assessment of action to promote the convention and follow through for next report. See UNESCO site for national Periodic Reports.

2012:

• UKCCD established as the MEP Platform for Cultural Diversity, Brussels (Jan)

2010:

• June: Took part in the panel discussion of the Forum for Young Leaders on Cultural Policy: How can UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) strengthen UK Cultural Policy?

  • Program for Cultural Professional Forum

  • UKCCD presentation: History & Concrete Implementation of Convention

  • U40: Report & Recommendations from The Forum

• December: UKCCD hosted an International forum – Promoting Diversity of Cultural Expression in the UK: How can UNESCO’s Convention strengthen UK Cultural Policy?

  • Programme

2009:

• Parliamentary Business – House of Lords – Creative Industries Debate moved by Lord Bragg to call attention to the contribution of the creative industries to the United Kingdom economy; and to move for Papers (June)

2008:

• November: Hosted the Development Seminar with Commonwealth Foundation – How can UK and Commonwealth approaches to development benefit from UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005)?

  • Agenda

  • UKCCD presentation: International Development and Diversity of Cultural Expressions

  • Report: International Development and the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

• May: Convened the Globalisation Conference – Globalisation: A threat to diversity of cultural expressions?

• • Programme

  • UKCCD report from the Seminar