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Conference starts:

2014-07-29

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Conference Description

As a unique historic occasion for Europe and the World, November 2014 will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which represents one of the most important events in the history and the development of Germany, ending the division of a bi-polar world and reuniting a country that had been divided for almost three decades.

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and almost twenty-five years after German reunification, unified Germany is considered to be the main economic engine of the European Union and is one of the leading economies and exporters in the world. In the recent decades, German corporations, simultaneously to securing their economic success, have successfully practiced corporate cultural diplomacy both directly as well as through their private foundations and have managed to build cultural and economic bridges with many communities from around the world. This active engagement of the German private sector in cultural diplomacy has enormously contributed to these corporations’ current success, the reputations of the companies themselves, as well as the reputation of the German private sector as a whole.

Parallel to the engagement of the private sector, the German Foreign Ministry and other German governmental institutions have been engaging relentlessly with cultural diplomacy throughout the last decades. The German public sector includes a successful model of cultural diplomacy, by the way in which it has been engaged and by its magnitude, since for example a high percentage of the annual budget for German foreign policy is dedicated to cultural issues and cultural diplomacy each year.

Symposium Agenda

The Symposium will include representatives from the public and private sector together with key stakeholders in the field to present and demonstrate their activities. The German strategy for designing and implementing cultural diplomacy within the framework of close consistency to their foreign policy as a whole, will be reviewed and case studies together with best practices of cultural diplomacy will be analyzed, discussed and demonstrated in the Symposium.

The Symposium curriculum will include keynote addresses, lectures, and interactive workshops. To complement and support the conference curriculum, exhibitions will be hosted parallel to the symposium sessions and site-visits will be arranged. The format of the conference will enable participants to present their initiatives and programs, in order to further promote their own initiatives and programs and to foster greater cooperation in the field. At its conclusion, the Symposium will publish a report based on the lectures, proposals and suggestions from all speakers and participants, which will be published and delivered to stakeholders of the German cultural diplomacy community as well as to the international community.

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