Turku workshop_June 2010

We have been busy in Turku at our final workshop where we have been finalising the recommendations for a replicable research framework! It’s now almost two weeks since we are back and it’s heads down for the final touches. All will be ready for our event ‘WHAT CULTURE DOES FOR US: RESEARCHING AND EVALUATING EUROPEAN CAPITALS OF CULTURE’ in Brussels on 13 July 2010. You can still register for the event here: http://ecocresearch.eventbrite.com/ 

Turku is only 6 months away from its big European Capital of Culture year and here are some impressions from the city!

New reports on responses to Liverpool’s ECoC

Impacts 08 has just published two new reports on Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture in 2008:

• Neighbourhood Impacts is a longitudinal research study into the impact of the Liverpool European Capital of Culture on local residents. It explores what local people felt about the Liverpool ECoC, their levels of cultural participation, and their perceptions of their city and some of its individual neighbourhoods.
• Tourism and the business of culture gathers the views of small and medium-sized tourism businesses on the Liverpool ECoC, and is the result of in-depth interviews and an on-line survey of businesses within Liverpool and Merseyside’s visitor economy

Further reports are available on the publication section of the Impacts 08 website.  Happy reading!

Registration now open!

You can now register for the event ‘What Culture does for us: researching and evaluating European Capitals of Culture’ taking place on 13 July 2010 at the Istanbul Centre in Brussels.

To secure your place at this exciting event, please register your details on http://ecocresearch.eventbrite.com/. 

What culture does for us’ is organised by members of the ECoC Policy Group. You can acess further details and the agenda for the day on the above website. Should you have any queries, please get in touch with the organisers by emailing Matti Allam on mallam@liverpool.ac.uk

Registration for Brussels event to open soon!

The work of the ECoC Policy Group will peak in the presentation of recommendations on a common research framework . As mentioned in previous posts, the recommendations will be presented at a final event in Brussels, taking place on 13 July 2010.

You will be able to register for the event from the week of 7 June 2010 onwards and participate in this exciting opportunity.

Watch this space for the link to the registration and for more details about the agenda of the day!