ConnectCP is a project of IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies), acting as an online resource database on experts and professionals in cultural policy, planning and research. ConnectCP contains profiles of experts with outline of experience, current interests and other information related to cultural policy with aims to improve and support art and culture community worldwide.
The database aims to stimulate the interaction of people with knowledge in the cultural policy sector, mobilise human resources, and facilitate the flow of cultural policy information. People with the required experience and qualifications are invited to submit a profile for publication.
To be considered an ‘expert’ for ConnectCP, a person needs to be recognised in the field of arts and cultural policy as someone who holds a senior research, policy, teaching or management position and/or has demonstrated expertise, at national and international level, in research, analysis or commentary. Experts need to be prepared to provide and update information about themselves and their work for ConnectCP, and may be asked to provide referees.
ConnectCP has two main aims:
- To increase the international flow of ideas, skills and knowledge about developments in cultural policy;
- To improve the quality of cultural policy debate by increasing access to and interaction between experts in the field.
Through these aims, ConnectCP should improve support for arts and culture and ultimately benefit artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide .
ConnectCP will help with any task that involves providing or finding information on a cultural policy expert, or searching for people with particular expertise. For example:
- ConnectCP will help conference organisers find world class speakers, and will make it much easier to locate biographical information on speakers – an often laborious process;
- It will help government agencies, management consultants and arts organisations to find research partners or analysts from diverse backgrounds on a diversity of issues;
- Journalists will be able to find experts to comment on cultural policy issues in the media;
- The ability to search by topic, offers the possibility to identify experts by specialisation, and will provide access to their publications that might not be available on any other bibliographical databases;
- The experts listed in ConnectCP have the great advantage of always having an up-to-date profile readily accessible to peers, students and research partners.
