Internationalization in focus: theoretical, strategic, and management perspectives in education, research, policy and practice

The post-pandemic global landscape offers new opportunities and challenges to the cultural sector. Internationalization and digitization give us novel ways to build communities, to create and share knowledge, and to decolonize and diversify cultural management and policy. At the same time, our increasingly complex world demands that we develop innovative approaches to engagement, collaboration and communication in the realm of culture and creativity. 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 include: • Developing new approaches to cultural management and policy in global networks. • Decolonizing and diversifying internationalization. • Creation and management of digital communities – inclusion, trust-building, and technologies as enablers or inhibitors of engagement. • Cultural and creative institutions as multipliers for international co-operation. • Policy actions, perspectives and practical experiences in international cooperation. • Citizens’ and stakeholders’ role in internationalization processes. • Artists and creative workers and their role in internationalization.