ENCATC Research Award Ceremony 2015

The 2nd ENCATC Research Award Ceremony took place in Brussels on 25 November, bringing together an international audience of researchers, academics, cultural professionals, artists, policy makers and representatives of the European Commission.

Four finalists were recognised alongside the winners: Fiona Hutchison (United Kingdom), shortlisted for Socio-cultural Impacts of Museums for their Local Communities: The Case of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, and Ann Overbergh (Belgium), shortlisted for Extended cinema in Kenya and Tanzania. Technological innovation and Related Trends in Local Audiovisual Storytelling, Alessia Usai (Italy), and Annika Hampel.

The 2015 Award was jointly won by Alessia Usai, University of Cagliari, Italy, for The Creative City. Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development, and Annika Hampel, University of Hildesheim, Germany, for Fair Cooperation. Partnership-based cooperation in Foreign Culture Policy. This was the first time the Award was presented ex aequo.

The Awards were presented by Catherine Magnant, Deputy Head of Unit for Cultural Diversity and Innovation at the European Commission. The ceremony also featured the presentation of ENCATC’s first Book Series publication by the 2014 winner of the award, Elodie Bordat-Chauvin.

The ceremony highlighted the Award’s role in raising the international visibility of emerging researchers, and highlighted ENCATC's support to their journey from doctoral research to international dissemination and knowledge exchange.

Photos: ©Michael Chia

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