Funding for Cultural and Educational Projects
This session was composed of presentations from various organizations which provide support and advice for artists and organizations seeking to find their way through the massive, complicated, and often confusing and overwhelming web of programs and funding opportunities set in place by the EU. I will attempt here to provide a brief summary of the main funding bodies presented during this session, keeping in mind that this is just a small snippet of the mind-boggling amount of information which is available online about every one of these programs, including
who/what/when/where/how to apply.

Cultural Management – The Art of the Impossible
The task of the workshop was not to justify the value or otherwise of management of the arts, but instead to focus on the skills and training needed today to effectively administer and lead
arts organisations given the many challenges – not least financial realities and the relationship of professional practice to the wider creative economy – they encounter.

Who cares for your Art? Communication in the 21st century
The question is, how can we best use these new modes and technologies to our benefit, as artists, as promoters, as programmers; as the creators and networkers of art which all of us inevitably are?

Transition – A Sustainable Future for the Performing Arts
Climate change is a subject which is difficult to avoid in today’s society, but in performing arts it is not yet a big subject. It is discussed for the first as the main theme of a working group at an IETM meeting. 

Education of Audiences- A Myth or a Missed Opportunity?
This working group was an exchange of ideas, suggestions and experiences surrounding the all important question of growing and cultivating a new generation of involved, devoted, and informed audiences. This is also closely linked with bringing art and culture into a more prominent position in our society, and perhaps even the growth and development of the art and artists themselves. What can be done to ensure a vibrant, healthy future for the arts? It all begins, of course, with education.

Creative School of Lobbying: Successful Models of Lobbying on a National and European Level
During the meeting in Zurich we had a working group about the same subject: advocacy. The title of this working group, here in Bratislava is a bit misleading|: we are not teaching. The aim is to share experiences and learn of this.