The 2022 ENCATC Congress invites researchers, educators, policy makers, cultural managers, and artists to join a global conversation about internationalization in the contemporary world. How can we utilise the potential of transnational cooperation, within Europe and beyond? How can we take advantage of digitization to develop new ways of learning and teaching? How can we promote sustainability and resilience in our policy and practice? How can creative leadership work to decolonize the cultural sector at a local and international level?

Key topics of the Congress include:

• Developing new approaches to cultural management and policy in global
• Decolonizing and diversifying
• Creation and management of digital communities – inclusion, trust-building, and technologies as enablers or inhibitors of
• Cultural and creative institutions as multipliers for international
• Policy actions, perspectives and practical experiences in international
• Citizens’ and stakeholders’ role in internationalization
• Artists and creative workers and their role in

The ENCATC Congress is a global gathering dedicated to the advancement of theory, education, research and practice in cultural management and policy. It has become the cornerstone in the annual calendar of the cultural management and cultural policy community. Each year, educators and researchers with cross-disciplinary interests connect with professionals, policy makers, artists and students. Together they work to address pressing issues, explore ground-breaking innovations, bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy, and encourage steps to ensure significant improvements in the industry.