Main aims:
Developing longer-term governance guidelines to underpin robust cultural infrastructure that promotes diversity of cultural expression in cities with due consideration to demographic and digital change; implementing global Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
Target groups:
City society and administration; stakeholders funding, creating and/or interested in cultural content
Expected results:
* Safeguarding, strengthening and expanding diverse cultural content
* Setting objectives and concrete measures of municipal cultural policy for the coming years and creating planning certainty for cultural actors
* Signposting the inclusion of cultural policy in city-wide planning and urban development
* Identifying and protecting the public's cultural interests
* Promoting the transcultural openness of city society
* Establishing and transmitting cities' image as cultural sites across Germany and internationally
* Bringing the activities of city administrations into line with the vision of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Objectives and concrete measures of the city's cultural affairs policy set out; events held with cultural actors from the city and the broader region; Bayreuth Cultural Declaration (Kulturerklarung) and Catalogue of Measures (Massnahmenplan) developed as main components of the 2019 Cultural Development Plan, the chief measures including the following: ensuring provision of funding, establishing culture funds in local authorities, improving culture marketing, setting up a round table, establishing a baroque festival, improving the educational services offered by museums