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Art Education in European Schools and Museums

Eccom - European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management has been founded in 1995 with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary approach to cultural organisations. Formed by economists, archaeologists, art historians and experts in cultural training and communication, ECCOM carries out analyses, consultancies and research works for public administrations and private organisations, and elaborates projects on management and structure of cultural producers. ECCOM host a developing Centre for Documentation in Cultural Management.In the light of institutional change affecting all the relevant aspects of administration and management of cultural activities and investments, ECCOM advice public authorities in redesigning the structure of local cultural organisations and the mechanisms of regional and local legislation and policy. The growing importance of human capital in cultural activities, also in view of the many emerging professions, is taken into account in designing training projects, assisting training institutions and hosting stages and laboratories from the main post-graduate courses in cultural economics, management and marketing. ECCOM carries out projects and activities within a European and international scope, co-operating with experts and professionals able to cover an extremely wide range of skills and experiences, so that each activity can be finely tuned to its specific needs and constraints. ECCOM is member of ENCATC-European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres, promoted by the Council of Europe; of CULTURELINK-Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation, promoted by Unesco and the Council of Europe; of ICOM-International Council of Museums, promoted by Unesco.

Referent for ITEMS

DR. CRISTINA DA MILANO

Born in Milan in 1966, after a Degree in Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, awarded by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (I) in 1988, she obtained the MA in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) in 2001 and the MA in Technological Instruments for the Economic Evaluation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Ferrara (I) in 2003. Since 1995 she is member of Eccom - European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management. She makes studies and research projects in the field of museum education and communication, with special reference to the issue of culture as a means of social integration: she was research director of the project “Cultural Heritage as a Means of Social Inclusion” and senior researcher within the research project “The Role of Culture in Urban Regeneration Processes”, both carried out by Eccom and funded by Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin.

She has participated in many European funded projects within the Lifelong Learning Programme mostly addressed to lifelong learning in museums, with a particular focus on disadvantaged audiences.

She was part of the working group which planned and managed the training course for “Assistants in archaeological excavations and care of gree areas” addressed to offenders and realised in 2005-2007 within the prison of Rebibbia in Rome and she was in charge of the realisation of an archaeological Antiquarium inside the prison itself.

Cristina Da Milano lectures in many post-graduate courses on issues such as museum communication and education.