SICA's new name = DutchCulture

New organisation for the promotion, support and implementation of international cultural cooperation: DutchCulture, centre for international cooperation.

Cultural Exchange TR-NL has been developed by DutchCulture to stimulate cultural cooperation between the Netherlands and Turkey.

DutchCulture operates in the areas of culture, media and heritage. The organisation is the result of a merger of SICA, Trans Artists and MEDIA Desk Netherlands. DutchCulture will also take up the tasks that were assigned to the discontinued Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland). The office is located at Herengracht 474 in Amsterdam since 1 June 2013.

The digital platform Cultural Exchange Turkey - The Netherlands is maintained by DutchCulture's Turkey Desk, formerly part of SICA. The Turkey Desk aims to further cultural cooperation with Brazil.

DutchCulture is supported with a four-year grant from both the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, DutchCulture receives regular funding from the European Commission.

DutchCulture’s activities include:

• cultural programming of the bilateral Netherlands-Russia year 2013;
• informing and advising about European cultural funding programmes;
• expertise with Artist-in-Residence programmes globally;
• reinforcing Dutch cultural cooperation with China, Turkey and Brazil;
• organising working visits for Dutch embassy staff and international experts;
• creating and maintaining (online) databases focusing on export of Dutch culture and cultural mappings of several countries.

DutchCulture offers services to ministries and local authorities, artists and cultural organisations, embassies, the creative industries sector, civil society and the business sector.

Visit the new website www.dutchculture.nl , which is currently being developed, for direct links to all the running websites.