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The Culture and Creativity website was created in 2015 within the framework of an EU Programme aims to promote cultural contribution to the social and economic development of the six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. It displays opportunities for artists, explorers and creative professionals.

NewAud is a growing network of European ensembles and music institution across 17 countries with a passion for contemporary music and how music meets an audience resistant to evaluation. On this website you can find reports, recommendations and examples of good practice. It explores new ways in which music and audiences meet. The site presents various audience research tools and recommendations, including examples on how to prepare and implement audience research and marketing.

Public Art Online is a resource set up by Public Art South-West, now managed by Ixia. It provides guidance and examples of public art practice from around the UK and internationally. It offers practical advice and useful links on commissioning, contracts, copyright and funding. Information for artists on insurance and how to manage public art projects is available as well.

As a part of Arts Council England Digital Research and Development fund, Digital Culture Survey, annually collects data about the digital behaviours of arts and culture institutions in England. The portal presents data-set of 984 organisations, compiled in 2013-2014.It is possible to view the data by organizational type; artform; turnover and region.

Participation statistics from the Compendium web-portal, display continuously updated information and provides a monitoring system of national cultural policies and related development. Under the heading of participation in cultural life, data on cinema admissions in Europe; internet penetration rate and number of Facebook and share of internet user using Facebook can be accessed as comparative tables, alongside a research bibliography on audience development.

The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) brings together over 4,200 art professionals from 70 countries all over the world organised into 63 National Sections and an Open Section. Its main objective is to promote arts criticism as a discipline and contribute to its methodology. AICA UK web site displays its members profiles and the writers agreement.

CultureCase comprises a vast array of carefully selected academic research from universities and scholars around the world that can add value to the work of the cultural sector. The research on the site has been edited into easily accessible summaries of key findings and insights to help inform the sector and provide the empirical evidence to support activities across arts and culture. It presents short accessible summaries of academic research that demonstrate the impacts of arts and culture, as well as highlighting a range of insights to help inform future planning.

Cultural Markets and Trade statistics from the Compendium of Cultural Policies web portal continuously displays updated information and offers a monitoring system of national cultural policies and related development. Currently Cultural Price Index on Goods and Services (2008-2014); price levels of cultural goods and services ( 2003-2018);European recreation and culture expenditure index ( 2005-2014); Comparison of European price levels ( 2005-2014) and information on feature film productions and its market share are available.

Cultural Employment statistics from the Compendium of Cultural Policies web portal continuously displays updated information and offers a monitoring system of national cultural policies and related development. The data is derived from EUROSTAT and demonstrates the difference in the level of self-employed persons working in the cultural sector in comparison to the overall level of self-employed persons in total employment. The results show the comparatively high level of self-employed cultural professionals and thus supports continuing demands for the introduction of tax and social security measures to improve their socio-economic status (as available for other groups of self-employed professionals).

A good practices database of culture related projects serving integration of migrants / refugees, based on the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends. Most of the examples are projects undertaken within individual countries to facilitate the inclusion of asylum seekers as well as migrants and to foster dialogue among the different cultural groups living there. They are initiated on the national, regional or local level and range from hybrid artistic productions and training programmes to festivals, public events and media productions.

Monitoring the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of 46 countries based on 2018 Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends. Information responding to the following questions is updated on a regular basis: Which countries have ratified the Convention? Who is responsible for its implementation? Are there civil society organisations involved in the process?

Statistics About Woman Artists In the Art World aims to give some indication of changes in women artists' involvement in the art world and their hierarchical distribution across its institutions. It displays statistical analyses of the presence or visibility of women artists over the last 30 years in order to outline the numbers of women involved in the art world and the levels of discrimination at work in their participation. This page also lists several surveys related to the position of women artists in exhibitions, museums, in the cultural industries in general and in art education. [Last Updated: Feb 2016]

Data on public expenditure on culture based on reports of the national experts of the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends are displayed at the site in the following frameworks: total government expenditure on culture; monitoring public cultural funding ( per capita and in % of total public expenditure); share of spending on culture by level of government and finally share of spending on culture by sector.

The Creative Capital Index is a system for assessing the realised and hidden potential of cities within the sphere of the new economy. The pilot version of the Index, launched in 2016, included nine Russian cities: Moscow, St Petersburg, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Tyumen. In 2017 Veliky Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Perm, Ufa and Omsk were added to the Index. In 2018, the number of cities reached 20 with the inclusion of Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ulyanovsk and Chelyabinsk. 

The Artlaw column has been published as in Art Monthly since 1976. It aims to bring to the visual arts community in the UK awareness and understanding of the law relating to the visual arts. It also contains dozens of frequently asked questions on all aspects of art and the law such as reputation, fair deals, conservation, artists' estate management etc. and short films on our ArtlawTV channel. It also provides specialist replies to legal queries of visual artists in England.

AMA helps people working in arts and cultural organisations reach more audiences with our training, events and resources. It provides resources, templates, advice, case studies and guidance. It’s run by the Arts Marketing Association, a team of people passionate about engaging the public in arts, heritage and culture. Besides being a membership organization which is dedicated to drive better connections between arts and culture and the public via trainings, networking events, it also presents an archive of everything AMA has produced, including older material from Demos, Mission Models & Money.

London Cultural Infrastructure Map plots the location of cultural infrastructure and enables the user to view it alongside useful contextual data. Interactive mapping is possible by selecting numerous layers out of an extensive data set of London, varying from transport networks to population growth, from sculpture in the city to city and community toilets, from flood risk to gabling risk maps.

The London Datastore was created by the Greater London Authority (GLA) with the aim of making it open and accessible for everyone. It presents data that GLA and other public sector organisations hold and make them accessible in a meaningful way by visualising or preparing apps.

The Canada Dance Mapping Study aims to identify, quantify and describe the ecology, economy and environment of dance in Canada. It was an initiative to investigate dance in its evolving state and in its multifaceted influences on the lives of Canadians. On this site, it is possible to access to interactive dance map, statistics and survey about it and relevant bibliography, including the role of dance in the life of Canadians.

Taking Part is a continuous face-to-face household survey for adults aged 16 and over and children aged 5 to 15 years old in England. In has run since 2015 and is the main evidence source for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport; Arts Council England; Historic England and Sport England.

Get Into Theatre is a website that aims to display all the information and opportunities for anyone willing to pursue a successful career in theatre in the UK. From backstage to performing, training to apprenticeships, you will find up-to-date theatre jobs information and advice.