The city of Linz is aiming for ever closer co-operation between all the city's cultural organizers and institutions in order to exploit the full potential of the available resources. To this end measures are being taken for efficient project co-operation in a joint initiative with the province.
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Co-operation between Linz cultural organisations |
Even within the culture administration itself there are many unexploited possibilities for greater co-operation. Feasiblility studies are under way to examine the potential for merging departments or redistributing responsiblities within the city's institutions. These will be followed by appropriate concepts for the realization of such internal changes.
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New structures for cultural work |
Externally the city of Linz will intensify its promotion of cultural partnerships through specific exchange programmes.
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Cultural partnerships
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It is also planned to set up a Culture Information and Service Centre for the public, organised jointly by the City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria and the tourist associations. The number and variety of organizers and artists is so great that such a centre could be set up in the tourist information offices, and would be a centralized information and service centre for diaries of cultural events, public relations, tickets systems, cultural guides, the co-ordination of cultural events, info pools etc. for Upper Austria and Linz.
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Culture Information and Service Centre |
The city of Linz is committed to close co-operation between the city's cultural institutions and the cultural facilities of the province. In a wide-ranging cultural alliance between city and province the division of responsibilities and activities and the effectiveness of cultural policies can be optimized by pooling resources wherever this makes sense. Furthermore, we intend to examine the legal and administrative framework with an eye to even closer co-operation and in some cases a fusion of the cultural facilities of city and province.
All the integration and co-operation models we are looking at have as their goal to exploit the strengths of such facilities, and to minimize their weaknesses.
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Co-operation between City of Linz - Province of U.A. |
We suggest that a joint study be instigated by city and province to examine the concrete uses of synergies between institutions of city and province and also the possibilities and advantages of the amalgamation of resources.
This would deal with concrete co-operation and integration models for museums and archives as well as increased co-operation between city facilities and provincial facilities such as the Adalbert Stifter Institute, the Linz Music School with the provincial music school system, the AEC with the OK and the Bruckner Orchestra and Provincial Theatre (new theatre contract) etc..
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Uses of synergies |
Moreover the function of the AEC as an interface for the facilities of city and province, and for business and scientific institutions, should be further developed.
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AEC as an interface |
From time to time there should be joint sessions of the cultural advisory committees of city and province. There should also be regular meetings between city and province to co-ordinate and develop models for co-operation and integration.
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City and provinicial cultural advisory committees
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The demands for high quality also require a closer association between the culture institutions of the city and province, the universities, all those institutes which concern themselves with new forms of culture and communication, the two teaching academies, other teaching bodies, the relevant media centres and the "ideal capital", the independent scene.
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Culture and education |
The city of Linz is committed to the principle of greater integration between the arts, the sciences, education and the economy and will organize working groups, discussions and events on themes relevant to the future.
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"Independent think-tank - Linz workshop for the future"
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The setting-up of an "independent think-tank" could be one aim; another closer co-operation with and between the universities, academies, schools and adult education centres as well as the research and development departments of the industrial economy.
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Arts, sciences, education and business |
Integration and Co-Operation
Cultural Development Plan