Culture and Education - 3rd Meeting

The ENCATC Congress 2025, taking place in Barcelona just ahead of the MONDIACULT World Conference, provides a vital platform for advancing global dialogue on culture’s role in sustainable and regenerative futures.

As part of this unique international gathering, ENCATC has set up and launched Focus Groups aligned with the 2025 Mondiacult priorities on March 6. The ENCATC Focus Groups offer a dynamic opportunity to co-produce knowledge and collaboratively contribute to cultural policy development.

Each Focus Group, chaired by an ENCATC Board Member, will produce concrete recommendations to feed into the Mondiacult Digital Library and the 2025 MONDIACULT Conference, making your input part of a global policy-shaping process. These groups are more than meetings: they are spaces for learning, critical dialogue, and advancing personal and institutional knowledge on key cultural priorities. The Focus Groups will work both online and in person in Barcelona.

The Focus Group on Culture and Education stems from the premise that building synergies between culture and education is fundamental to an inclusive future based on cultural diversity and human rights. Culture needs to be systematically part of formal, informal, and non-formal education, recognizing the role that all segments of society play in knowledge transmission. It is also vital to improve the quality of education, foster appreciation for cultural diversity, promote multilingualism, and integrate arts education and digital literacy both in school curricula and lifelong learning. This includes promoting context-relevant education that incorporates heritage, history, and traditional knowledge.