The winner of the CPR Award 2010, worth 10.000 euros, was publicly announced on 7 October at 14h00 during the 18th ENCATC Annual Conference which took place in Brussels on 6-8 October 2010.

The Cultural Policy Research Award was launched in 2004 by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and since 2008, is developed in partnership with the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC).

Designed to  foster academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore issues at stake in contemporary Europe, the Cultural Policy Research Award aims to contribute to new competence building among young scholars in comparative cultural policy research.

The Winner of the 2010 CPRA is Claire Bullen, a 2nd year PhD Student at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures – an inter-disciplinary research centre at the University of Manchester. The title of her research project is "European Capitals of Culture and everyday cultural diversity: Comparing social relations and cultural policies in Liverpool (UK) and Marseille (France)".

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