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"The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and ENCATC have opened the call for registration for the 5th Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum which will take place on 11-12 October 2011 in Helsinki, Finland!/Deadline for online applications: 30 May 2011!/Aimed at providing young/early career cultural policy researchers with the opportunity to meet fellow researchers, share their experiences and analyse topical research issues regarding content and methodology, the YCPR Forum will bring together in Helsinki, on the 11-12 October 2011 researchers, students, academics and cultural policy experts in the cultural field drawn from a wide range of countries in Europe and beyond.Initiated in 2006 by ECF and managed since 2008 by ENCATC, this initiative offers a great occasion for young cultural researchers to expand their network and explore new cooperation opportunities as well as publishing possibilities./Set to take place at the prestigious Cable factory in Helsinki, Finland’s single largest cultural centre, the 5th edition of the Forum will bring together 40 selected researchers together with academics and experts on cultural policy from Europe and beyond.This unique initiative in Europe, organized this year in close partnership with CUPORE, the Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research, aims to promote and stimulate transborder exchanges among young/early career cultural policy researchers and contribute on a long term basis to the development of a strong network of European researchers on cultural policy./As in previous years, the 2011 Forum will be part of the official programme of the 19th ENCATC Annual Conference and will close with the Cultural Policy Research Award Ceremony organized on the evening of October 12th in the prestigious premises of the Municipality of Helsinki in presence of outstanding policy makers, leading arts managers and cultural policy educators.The Forum is an initiative developed by the European Cultural Foundation, LabforCulture, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and ENCATC, as part of a larger collaborative project involving the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) and the Online Young Researchers Forum, a new online tool for emerging researchers involved in the cultural policy field./Young researchers interested in participating in the YCPR Forum must submit their application online beforeMay 30th, 2011.  Attendance to the YCPR Forum is free of charge.  Nine young promising researchers will receive a travel grant to attend the 5th YCPR Forum, chosen based on their research abstracts submitted.  Thesenine bursaries aim to contribute towards the travel and/or accommodation costs to attend the Forum in Helsinki./To download the practical information and the application form, click here:To visit the online space for cultural policy researchers click here: www.labforculture.org/cpresearchersFor more information, please contactElizabeth Darley(projects@encatc.org – 0032.2.201.29.12)"Source :Lab for Culture/Autor:Tsveta Andreeva - 05 abr 2011/