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Our history - 2018

March : Culture Summit of UCLG, Bilbao – Approval of the document updating Agenda 21 for culture: "Culture 21 Actions".

April: Launch of the global Pilot City and the Europeam Pilot City (in collaboration with Culture Action Europe) programmes for 2015, both based on the experience of the 2014.

February: Launch of the pilot cities 2014 programme, aiming to document the updating of Agenda 21 for culture. The Pilot cities were: Belo HorizonteBogotaConcepciónGabrovoProvince of JejuMexico CityTalcaVaudreuil-Dorion.

March: Launch of an online results of our questionnaire on the Agenda 21 for culture and how to improve it.

AprilSynthesis report of a workshop held in Dakar (April 2014) on the issue "Towards a New Agenda 21 for Culture: African Cities take the floor".

July: End of the questionnaire, with 255 answers received, of which 142 can be considered complete.

September: Seminar “Cities, Cultures and Futures”, Buenos Aires – Pursuit of the process of producing a new document updating Agenda 21 for culture.

JuneMeeting of the Committee on Culture of UCLG,in Lille (France) – Approval of the process of producing a new document updating Agenda 21 for culture d’un document by the Executive Bureau of UCLG.

September: Seminar “Cities, Cultures and Futures”, Buenos Aires – Pursuit of the process of producing a new document updating Agenda 21 for culture.

October: World Congress of UCLG, Rabat – Pursuit of the process of producing a new document updating Agenda 21 for culture.

November: Seminar with the research network COST on “Investing in cultural sustainability”, Brussels – Pursuit of the process of producing a new document updating Agenda 21 for culture.

November. 4th meeting of UCLG Committee on Culture, in Guangzhou.

October. Publication of the report Cities, cultures and developments. A report that marks the fifth anniversary of Agenda 21 for Culture. The study presents 20 articles which address the context of Agenda 21 for Culture and its perspectives 5 years after its approuval.

September. Publication of the report Culture and sustainable development: examples of institutional innovation and proposal of a new cultural policy profile, for UNESCO's Division on Public Policies and Intercultural Dialogue.

June. Publication of the report Culture, local governments and Millennium Development Goals, which includes a approach based on the relation that exists between culture, development strategies and local governments, as well as on the central role culture has to endorse in local development strategies aiming at achieving the Millenium Goals.

Approval of Agenda 21 for culture by UCLG as a founding document.