 December 2004 - June 2005
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A series of four seminars in the Loyd Hotel (Amsterdam) examining the relationship between cultural organisations and the private sector (individuals and business). |
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Each session focussed on a specific aspect of business relations with case studies presented from innovative examples in the UK. The seminars were meant for both business and arts-based organisations in private and public sectors.
28-29 October 2004
This seminar was organised in the context of the UK-Netherlands Partnership Programme in Science. The central theme ‘Practical Ethics in Research’ is an important and topical issue in both our countries. Dr Daniel Glaser, Neuroscientist at University College London, has been appointed as Chair. The format of the conference was based on a mixture of plenary sessions and working groups: Day 1 - Ethics in everyday scientific practice, Day 2 - Ethical practice in public engagement.
1-2 October 2004
There is a growing recognition of the urgent need for societies at many levels to engage with and learn from each other. Connecting Futures gives young people across borders and cultural barriers the chance to explore their own and each other's identity and learn more about each other’s concerns and mutual interests through a process of shared experience and dialogue.
We have identified a group of engaged young people, 15-18 years old, from diverse backgrounds. During the launch participants were encouraged to identify the themes and issues related to active citizenship & identity which are most topical and relevant.
November 2003 – June 2004
The British Council teamed up with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw’s educational department to design an expert meeting on music, education and outreach in June 2004. In a series of discussions leading up to this event, representatives from visiting orchestras and ensembles talked about this aspect of their working lives, demonstrated some recent projects and discussed this with Dutch colleagues. More information and downloadable reports on the series are available here.
18-19 March 2004
Arising from the Apeldoorn Conferences, this was the first of a series of conferences to be held alternately in the UK and the Netherlands, bringing together members of the young Dutch and British “successor generation”. The conference, held at the FCO in London, was opened by Denis Macshane MP. Two overall conference chairs were appointed, Nick Clegg MEP and Michiel van Hulten MEP.
The central conference theme, based on the EU Lisbon Agenda, was ‘Competitiveness’. There were four workshops: 1. Preparing Young people for work in the 21st century; 2. Promoting the knowledge economy; 3. Developing a wider, more flexible and better skilled labour market; and 4. Promoting entrepreneurship and SMEs. Read more about the themes and programme.
April – November 2003
The City of Rotterdam and the historic Laurenskerk provided a unique setting for a public lecture series on National Identity and Society - Perspectives Past and Present. During the course of these six public lectures, highly regarded Dutch, British and German thinkers traced the development of national identity from medieval times to the emergence of a modern national identity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several lectures are available online.
24 April 2003
Artists, policy- makers, and national development agencies from both Britain and the Netherlands came together during this years’ Springdance festival in Utrecht to participate in a two-day think tank to explore the possibilities of creative community arts practice in the Netherlands. The think tank resulted in a manifesto booklet which proclaims the value of working creatively with communities and contains two essays on the evolution of community oriented cultural policy in both Britain and the Netherlands.
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