Austrian Cultural Forum

An Austrian Cultural Forum is a facility of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, whose mission is the cultural and scientific dialogue with artists and scientists of the host country.

A culture forum is geared to the specific requirements of the local users and partners and works in content independently. Austria is positioned by the Cultural Forum as a modern and cosmopolitan culture nation. The international network of the Austrian foreign culture currently consists of 30 cultural forums.

Austrian international cultural policy

Principles of Austrian international cultural policy:

• The Austrian international cultural policy is actively and creatively. Since 2001, the " AuslandskulturkonzeptNEU " in which the task and objectives of international cultural policy be formulated applies. Since the crop Austria offers the chance of global perception, should, through cultural activities, international moments of attention for Austria to be created.
• The aims of Austrian international cultural policy are therefore: The location of Austria in Europe is to be understandable and perceptible manner.
• The international activities in the field of art, culture and science must be supplemented with educational projects, for the future European knowledge area is the success of European ideas of education depends.
• The commitment to a Europe of diversity to counteract an excess of identity politics because, as already formulated Stefan Zweig, allow Austria patriot and citizen of the world to be at the same time.

In addition, the aims of Austrian international cultural policy are determined by the following tasks:

• Austria wants to contribute that Europe is cultural, because Europe's strengths lie in its cultural diversity.
• Our neighbors to be won as allies in achieving the opportunities afforded by cultural area of ​​Central Europe.
• Southeast Europe is going to be fully integrated into the cultural dialogue in Europe, thereby strengthening the civil society facilitates stabilization in these countries.
• The dialogue of cultures and civilizations should be strengthened in concrete form, because Austria has made historical experience with the struggle of languages ​​and cultures and with totalitarian ideologies.

List of Austrian Cultural Forum

(partly founded as a cultural institution or set up as a cultural department of an Austrian Embassy, in March 2001, renamed Cultural Forum )