Check out the Izmir Declaration and the final report of the Summit!
The UCLG Culture Summit is the main meeting point at global level of cities, local governments and other stakeholders that are committed to the effective implementation of policies and programmes on culture and sustainability.
Since 2015, UCLG has convened three editions of the UCLG Culture Summit, which were respectively hosted by the City of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain, March 2015), the Jeju Self-Governing Special Province (Jeju-do, Republic of Korea, May 2017), and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Argentina, April 2019). Following the success of the three first Culture Summit of UCLG, and considering the growing importance of culture in the framework of sustainable cities, the Executive Bureau of UCLG has decided to convene a 4th UCLG Culture Summit in 2021.
The 4th Culture Summit will be held in Izmir on next 9-11 September 2021, under the title “Culture: Shaping the Future”.
A virtual launch of the Summit was organised online and in Izmir on last 10 June 2021, from 14h30-16h30 CEST. A detailed article on the session is also available should you wish to know more.
Then, the 4th UCLG Culture Summit was organised in september 2021. The report of the Summit will be available soon. You can also read the detailed article which emphisizes the main highlights of the event, as well as the flickr albums of the first and second days of the Summit.
Check out the key speeches of Tunç Soyer, Mayor of Izmir, Uğur İbrahim Altay, Mayor of Konya and UCLG Co-president, Serhan Ada, Associate Professor, Head of Arts and Cultural Management Department and Director of the Cultural Policy and Management Research Center at the Istanbul Bilgi University, and Farida Shaheed, Director of the Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource centre in Pakistan, former UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, and author of the UCLG report on “Culture and Gender Equality”, as well as the conversation between Karima Bennoune, UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, and Luca Bergamo, impulsor of the Rome Charter, facilitated by Luca Trifone, Rome:
Check out the detailed programme of the 4th UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir.
Check out the concept note of the launch of the 4th UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir.
The presentation is also available in Turkish.
Check out the brief presentation of the 4th UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir.
The presentation is also available in Turkish.
Check out the background document of the UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir in 2021.
The background document is also available in Turkish.
Read the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the organization of the next UCLG Culture Summit in 2021.
