Mobility of Imagination A companion guide to international cultural cooperation By Dragan Klaic Published in September 2007 by the Center of Arts and Culture, Central European University Budapest, with the support of SICA Amsterdam, Budapest Observatory and Euclid, Liverpool. • Paperback: 172 pages • Language: English • ISBN-10: 9639776068 • ISBN-13: 978-9639776067• Price eur 16/ US $ 21.95 A concise guidebook for the arts and culture professionals, explaining in a systematic manner the purpose and expected benefits of international cultural cooperation, its risks and strategic issues, models and success factors. Contains case studies, print and web references and a glossary. International cultural cooperation has been traditionally conceived as a matter of national governments and national cultural and foreign policy, and not in a broad European perspective or from the point of view of cultural operators themselves. This book offers them the basic instruments with which to pursue their border crossing interests , a systematic approach to international projects as a developmental strategy and a perspective that surpasses the restraints of the national cultural policy while recognizing their specifics and divergence. Bridging Eastern and Western Europe, the author demonstrates how international cultural cooperation creates an integrated cultural space and contributes to an emerging European citizenship. This book is aimed at both beginning and experienced cultural operators and private and public decision makers. Dr. Dragan Klaic, a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, a theater scholar, cultural analyst and author of several books and many articles, teaches arts and cultural policy at the Leiden University. He led Theater Instituut Nederland, held professorships at the University of Arts in Belgrade, University of Amsterdam, CEU Budapest, University of Bologna and US universities and presided over European cultural networks ENICPA and EFAH. In 2004 he published an exilic memoir Exercises in Exile in Dutch and Croatian. In 2005 Europe as a Cultural Project, a final report of a Reflection Group, set up by the European Cultural Foundation, whose Moderator he was. His 2005 analysis of the Istanbul cultural constellation and its connectivity with the rest of Europe was commissioned and published by the Lab for Culture (www.labforculture.org ). He is the initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project, an international consortium, and a frequent speaker, lecturer and trainer across Europe. To be ordered via www.ceupress.com or www.amazon.com