The 3rd Foundations and Networks International Workshop - a frank and informal moment of discussion among foundations and cultural networks from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia about transnational cultural cooperation - will take place in Lisbon fron 2nd to 4th October 2008. The workshop is the third step of a dialogue started in Rio de Janeiro in 2006. The workshop gathers two of the most active private actors of transnational cultural cooperation and in particular foundations which promotes cooperation both with own projects and with grantmaking policies, and networks which enhance cooperation practice among their members, providing information, occasions to meet and developing professional skills.
The 2008 edition will ground the discussion on experiences of excellent collaborative working partnerships between foundations and networks, in order to understand and to discuss the processes, the partnership models, the opportunity and the problems as well as the evaluation criteria chosen and/or agreed.
The workshop is an initiative of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, IETM and will be hosted by Gulbenkian Foundation.
The edition 2008 was made possible by the contributions of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Hivos, Compagnia di San Paolo and IFACCA.

The second workshop between fondations and cultural networks - organised by IETM and World Cultural Forum - was held in Torino, Italy n 16th e 17th November 2007 and was hosted by Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CRT.
The workshop, an informal and frank space of debate, was attended by 35 representatives of networks and foundations from Europe, Singapore, Latin America, Australia and Africa, who discussed about critical points, approaches and evaluation concerning transnational cultural cooperation.
This workshop followed the first Foundations & Networks International Workshop that was held on 27 November 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as parallel event of the Forum Cultural Mundial 2006.

Fitzcarraldo takes part in the project Macramé, an initiative promoted by eight Italian partners (Ass. a.titolo, Ass. ArteGiovane, Ass. Mosaico Danza, CESAC, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Xenia Ensemble, Città dell'Arte-Fondazione Pistoletto) and an artist (Matteo Fraterno) to develop a medium-long term project among artists of Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Romania.
On 19, 20 and 21 October 2007 Macramé begins with a serie of international meetings involving artists of various disciplines, cultural operators and actors supporting the contemporary artistic production to discuss at which conditions and in which ways a multidisciplinary cooperation project among civil society can be designed in the Euro-Mediterranean area.
What is Macramé?
Programme of the Torino meetings 2007

Fondazione Fitzcarraldo is partner of the Foundations and Networks International Workshop 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile - 24th-30th November 2006 and in Salvador on 1st-3rd december 2006.
Within the Forum Fitzcarraldo is organizing on 27th November 2006 in Rio de Janeiro two sessions focused on foundations and networks about trans-national cultural cooperation. These sessions intend to understand what obstacles grant makers and beneficiaries encounter in developing cultural cooperation projects and what are the chance for foundations to build partnership and alliances among civil society, public authorities and cultural organisations.
The issues and the questions tackled:

• "Building partnership and alliances among civil society, public authorities and cultural organizations". What obstacles do foundations encounter in managing and evaluating their programmes and projects? What factors could encourage / facilitate foundations in embarking medium long term partnerships and alliances with public agencies as well as transnational cultural networks? Ad discussion among foundations.
  Listen and read Paul Van Paaschen's interview
• "What is missing? Learning from difficulties and failures: a dialogue between grant makers and beneficiaries". What do trans-nationally active cultural operators expect from foundations? What difficulties do grant making foundations face when dealing with trans-national cultural cooperation projects and actors? What prevents many foundations from engaging in the international cultural cooperation? A debate between foundations and transnational networks.
  Report
  Summary
  List of participants

Programme of the workshop

Miranda is a special project developed by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in partnership with the Regione Piemonte and Fondazione CRT that aims at experimenting with the operators of museums a new methodology of Observation survey by using ICT solutions.
This survey methodology is based on the direct observation of visitors' reactions in a museum and let the operators get a more detailed knowledge of visitors' behaviour.
The observation survey is mainly useful to:

• analyse and verify the effectiveness of the museum display and the exhibition route;
• find out the different levels of attraction and of retain of the elements included in the visit;
• evaluate the indicators of the visitor's endurance during the visit.

A software has been developed by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo for the Observation survey: this software quickens data entry and provides useful graphical representations of results.
The project Miranda is made up of a training lab, a test phase of the software and a web site. It involved 10 museums in 2005 and 8 in 2006.

For further information about the project: Damiano Aliprandi, Alessandro Bollo

Fondazione Fitzcarraldo looks at the Mediterranean and Europe with Paralleli- Istituto Euromediterraneo del Nord Ovest together with
Centro d'iniziativa per l'Europa - CIE Piemonte
Centro Piemontese di Studi Africani
Associazione per l'Incontro delle Culture in Europa (APICE)
SITI - Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per l'Innovazione
FIERI - Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione
and in cooperation with iMed.
Paralleli wants to contribute in promoting and developing the cooperation between Europe and the Mediterranean in the political, economical, social and cultural fields - according to the contents of the Barcelona Process - by creating a Euro-Mediterranean space of freedom, security and economical and social development, for promoting the cultural dialogue and the role of civil society in strict cooperation with the public and private institutions of the territory. The initiative is made possible by Compagnia di San Paolo and the City of Turin. From Piedmont to Milan, Genova, Nice and Barcelona, Paralleli will open another way connecting Europe and the Mediterranean, developing concrete research projects, planning, training initiatives and offering a suitable open place for discussing and elaborating new ideas.
Website
Constitutive document of Paralleli (in Italian)

Initiated by the European Cultural Foundation in early 2004, LabforCulture.org aims to be a tool that provides useful information for artists, cultural operators and practitioners for sharing information, monitoring trends, commissioning research and innovative schemes to encourage cross border cultural cooperation in Europe. LabforCulture.org is a pan-European initiative which seeks to provide a federating and networking tool to provide access to opportunities for transnational cultural cooperation. Fondazione Fitzcarraldo takes part in the Stakeholder forum of LabforCulture.org.