Zaragoza is candidate city to become European Capital of Culture and hopes to win but it is also sure that the journey is more important than the destination.
To be European Capital of Culture in 2016 -with a Polish city- must reflect the ambitious renovation plan and the new cultural model that has been launched by Zaragoza.
This model comes from a Strategic Plan (Plan Estratégico-PECZ) to give sense to the brand Zaragoza Cultura in order to turn our city into a referent in creation and culture, and establish a new cultural policy, a new method of administration, boast creativity and cultural industries, and make possible a new and huge list of cultural equipments for the citizen.
This Strategic Plan has been made through processes of regulated participation, in other words, as a global debate and joint decision taking on new concrete aspects:
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1. Local and European identities, and multiculturality
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2. Creativity
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3. Mobility and cultural cooperation
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4. Accessibility, new kinds of public and new attraction poles
Atracción.
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5. Innovation and technology
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6. Environmental sustainability in time of programmes and projects
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7. Education for culture
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8. Cultural industries
- 9. Leisure, culture and territory.
The result of all the above mentioned information will be new contemporary and dynamic management bodies, new production criteria, education plans for enjoying culture, measures for the creation and support of the culture industry, arts training, European cooperation, new city values, participation criteria, plans for the children and the young, investments and equipments, and culture urbanism in every district.
Whether Zaragoza is elected or not as European Capital of Culture 2016, it will be a cultural city.
This is the agenda:
2010- · Final drafting and launching of the Strategic Culture Plan of Zaragoza (PECZ)
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· Get a balance in the cultural aspects (programmes, equipments,…), among the different territories and districts of the city, mainly the most disadvantaged.
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· Training of the cultural agents for participation and cooperation
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· Definition and implementation of joint projects with other European cities
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· Consolidation of singular programmes
- · Complete 18 new equipments for the implementation of PECZ.
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· Consolidation of the Strategic Culture Plan
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· Programmes to know the values of the "European Capital"
- · Exchanges and mobility, creation of new places for cultural production, and incorporation and renovation of areas and equipments turned into cultural facilities.
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· Preparation of infrastructures and contents of "Zaragoza 2016" programme
- · Permanent communication actions in the European territory: "cities of culture"
- · Programme of the European Capital or the European Cultural City
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· Revision of the PECZ
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· The sieges of European cooperation, and the centres of creation, production, planning, programs and contents of 2016 will remain and will be developed.
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· Development and scope of the new European culture values coming from Zaragoza 2016
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· Zaragoza as permanent European capital of culture and reference of cultural actions.
- · European center of creation and cultural production.
