The Scottish Government has committed to developing a strategy to support the international aspirations and potential of Scotland’s culture sector. Through this survey we want to understand views of all interested parties in this work to inform the shape the strategy takes. The survey is likely to require about 30-45 minutes to complete.
Scotland’s culture sector undoubtedly has a strong international reputation. For a small country, Scotland has an impressive number of internationally important cultural assets and international recognition of our many strengths. However, there is a need to better coordinate and focus the public policy landscape that aims to support the sector’s international activity.
A Culture Strategy for Scotland, published in February 2020, sets out a range of ambitions in this space. However, major disruptive events since its publication, including Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, have affected the ability of cultural professionals to work internationally and have imposed additional costs and administrative barriers.
The development of an International Culture Strategy (‘the strategy’) will seek to provide greater coherence to how the Scottish Government supports international cultural activity. It will focus on the motivations of culture sector stakeholders in working internationally, while recognising that such work has wider impacts on Scotland’s international reputation and relationships.
However, the sector is currently experiencing significant concurrent challenges and the development of a strategy must be set in that context. It must support sectoral resilience, recovery, and long term development and be one way through which current challenges can be addressed.
This survey is aimed at cultural organisations, creative industries companies, and individual practitioners who work internationally and those with aspirations to do so. We would also welcome views from organisations from outside of Scotland who have worked with Scottish partners or wish to do so.
We are seeking views on:
Read the survey paper in English or Gaelic (a Gaelic translation is available in the supporting documents)
Read an Easy Read version of the survey paper (There is a word version in the supporting documents if you would prefer to download and respond via email).
Wednesday 29 March @ 11:00 – 12:00 SIGN UP
Thursday 30 March @ 15:00 – 16:00 SIGN UP
The sessions are designed to help people who are interested in providing a response to the International Culture Strategy Survey.
Both sessions will follow the same format of:
- a short presentation from policy officials on strategy development, the rationale and principles behind this work, and the survey;
- an opportunity for Q&A with policy officials.
During the sessions we will not be gathering information on the views of participants.
Wednesday 29 March @ 11:00 – 12:00 SIGN UP: https://rb.gy/rfchiu
The sessions are designed to help people who are interested in providing a response to the International Culture Strategy Survey.
Both sessions will follow the same format of:
- a short presentation from policy officials on strategy development, the rationale and principles behind this work, and the survey;
- an opportunity for Q&A with policy officials.
During the sessions we will not be gathering information on the views of participants.
Thursday 30 March @ 15:00 – 16:00 SIGN UP: https://rb.gy/fw5b2y
The sessions are designed to help people who are interested in providing a response to the International Culture Strategy Survey.
Both sessions will follow the same format of:
- a short presentation from policy officials on strategy development, the rationale and principles behind this work, and the survey;
- an opportunity for Q&A with policy officials.
During the sessions we will not be gathering information on the views of participants.
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