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Established in 1989, the Master in Cultural Management was the first Spanish University p
ostgraduate course in Cultural Management. The international dimension has been a prominent
feature of our courses, through studies abroad and invited teachers or trainee opportunities
abroad.
The University of Barcelona received recognition for its work, when offered the European Network
of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC) presidency, the Eurolatinamerican Network
of Cultural Tourism "IBERTUR" leadership, the Iberoamerican Gateway of Cultural Management, as
well as different research projects and interuniversity training.
A dynamic team
With all these years of experience, the educational team led by Lluís Bonet has made every
effort to structure contents, collect experiences and documentation, elaborate on and simulate
exercises, design new teaching methods and present the best cases and speakers.
The aim of all this collective work is to get a high quality training in order to provide
skilled professionals with intellectual curiosity and common sense, within various cultural
institutions, projects and services.
The set of teachers is composed of professionals specialized in the management of programs and
cultural services, and of university teachers of similar academic disciplines to management of
culture. This mixture of origins, which is complemented with the occasional presence of the
political or artistic persons responsible for the main cultural institutions of the country
invited to taking part in lectures and debates, enriches the course and allows the participants
a direct and privileged contact with the best professionals of the sector.
Each one of the educational modules has theoretical contributions of the coordinator and of
several teachers being invited. Likewise, in many of them exercises of personal work which it
is necessary to make with specific documental support, collective debate, seminars and
complementary visits are carried out.
A training project
After creating one of the first
Cultural Management master program in Europe, educational offer
has been enlarged during the past years to meet new demands. Thus, the
Post-Graduate Program in ultural Management and Policies enables the participation of experienced professionals from
Spain and Latinamerica. The
Post-Graduate Program in International Cooperation and Cultural
Management has become an important platform of exchange and cooperation between cultural
managers and institutions from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The
Post-Graduate Program in Cultural Tourism bridges the tourism world with both heritage and art projects.
Lately, the Post-Graduate Program in
Show Production and Management, carried out in collaboration with the
Theatre Institute in Barcelona and the Romea Foundation, addresses to new show managers.
Success in these training activities, added to increasing possibilities of new technologies, led
the Directing Team to offer a couple of these courses through the Internet. Thus, the Master in
Cultural Management can also be completely attended online, and the Post-Graduate Diplomas in
Cultural Turism, Cultural Management and Policies, ans International Cooperation and Cultural
Management are half-presential.
Our students came since the beginning of the programme from more than fifteen countries:
Andorra, Algeria, Argentina, Barbados, Belgium, Benin Republic, Bolivia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Italia, Malaysia,
Mauritania, México, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland,
Portugal, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, United
Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yugoslavia…
All theses training activities are framed in a wider academic and services project, integrated
into the new Cultural and Entertainment Space of the University of Barcelona.
Lines of research:
- Economics of culture
- Cultural management
- Cultural policies
- Cultural industries
- Cultural tourism.
Conference and workshops
Every year, Cultural Management at the University of Barcelona organizes several congresses and
workshops following the lines of research of the team: Economics of culture, Cultural management,
Cultural policies, Cultural industries, Cultural tourism.
Other activities
 With the aim of improving the yield and applicability of our formative programs, in the last
years a set of Exercises of Simulation have been elaborated. They all are based on using a
fictitious case, very near to the reality, in that each of the students assumes a main role
and has to solve, in collaboration or confrontation with other actors of the case, a set of
circumstances during a period bounded of time. Some of these exercises are carried out with
computer support, whereas others have specific documentation that allows the discussion in group.
SIM-THEATRE: Planning a theater from a listing of shows and some economic goals and publics.
SIM-NEGOTIATION: Negotiation among different professional actors and citizens in relation to the
use of a great patrimonial space for cultural commercial use.
SIM-PRODUCTION: Planning and accomplishing a production of a great musical show, and a set of
parallel activities, with temporary, economic and technical difficulties.
SIM-EXPO: Planning spaces of temporary exhibitions taking into account some economic and
political objectives
Barcelona, which is at the moment one of the
most attractive, lively and interesting cities in Europe, allows the participants of the different
programmes to meet directly some of the newest and most innovative projects in the field of cultural
management, while one can enjoy the art and the cultural life of the wonderful Catalan capital.
Set up on the edge of the Mediterranian sea, and as the center of the metropolitan area with four
milion inhabitants from different cities of cultural traditions and dynamism, Barcelona has a large
heritage in arts and monuments.
In the historic center, the roman city (the urban framework, the walls, the
City Historic Museum)
lives together with the great medieval capital, which has emblematic buildings such as the
Palau de la Generalitat, the City Hall, the Palau de la Música (The Music Palace) , the palaces of Montacada
street, the
Cathedral and Santa María del Mar church among others. You can also find the urban
structures corresponding to the period before the industrial revolution (like the maritim façade,
the Raval and the Barceloneta areas).
L'Eixample, the big middle-class district by the city center, has the best architectural art
nouveau collection of Europe, with buildings done by Gaudí), Domènech i Muntaner, Puig i Cadafalch, among others. The
contemporary city has also many work done by emblematic artists and architects, such as Calatrava,
Chillida, Foster, Gehry, Isozaqui, Mies van der Rohe, Miró, Moneo, Picasso, Sert and Tàpies.
 The street's heritage is complemented with a wide artistic, scientific and
humanistic repertoire. This is represented by more than thirty museums in the city- among which
Nacional Art Museum of Catalonia,
the Picasso Museum and
the Miró Fundation can be
outlined. Nonetheless, the artistic dynamism of the city goes beyond architecture and musea. Lot's
of visual artists, writers and musicians had chosen this city to live and work. This makes possible
new kinds of art and cultural crossbreeding to appear. Barcelona is also an exceptional city for
theatre, opera, music and contemporary dance. It has emblematic proposals like the new Theatre's
City, the great Opera House
Gran Teatre del Liceu or the
GREC and BAM festivals. This
avant-garde trend does not exclude the traditional catalan culture claiming and keeping, the creation
and exchange with the new immigrant cultural expressions, and even the use of the streets as a place
for experimentation, cohabitation, party and meeting. In this sense, it's worth seeing the
Festes de La Mercè
and the thousands of proposals all around the city.
When democracy and politic autonomy returns to Catalonia, in the late seventies, after 40 years of
dictatorship, the new government institucions started extensive programmes of culture and language
promotion.
In a local level, new cultural infrastructures were built or restored (museums, theatres, libraries,
etc.), and many programmes were started to favour the artistic production and the civic participation.
All these programmes, infrastructure and projects, require a new generation of professional cultural
managers. In few years, Catalonia started to be a testing laboratory of new ways of making cultural
policies and management. In this context, in 1989 the first post graduate course on cultural
management in Spain was born in Barcelona University. So, Barcelona is nowadays one of the most
dynamic and interesting cities in Europe to study and to deepen in the field of production,
management, tourism and cultural policies, as demonstrated by the celebration of the Forum Universal
de las Culturas in the city.
The Programme gives its support to...
The Programme receives support from...
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Spanish Ministry of Culture
www.mcu.es
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AECID - Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development
www.aecid.es
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Catalan Government. Culture and Media Department
www.gencat.cat
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Barcelona City Hall. Culture Institute
www.bcn.cat/cultura
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Diputació de Barcelona
www.diba.es
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UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
www.unesco.org
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OEI - South American States Organsation for Education, Science and Culture
www.oei.es
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