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ISCP New York City — Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin — Platform Garanti Istanbul |
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In 2008/2009, OCA offers two studio grants — one for a Norwegian artist and one for a Norwegian curator at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City. ISCP offers artists and curators an opportunity to work independently. The recipients will be selected by the OCA Jury. Two collective exhibitions are held every year, at the beginning of May and at the beginning of December. The studios are open to the public on certain days. ISCP receives regular visits from curators and gallery-owners, wishing to make contact with the artists/curators. ISCP NYC is moving from its location in Manhattan to new premises in Brooklyn in March 2008. The NYC based residencies available for Norwegian artists and curators are being evaluated in terms of optimal location and opportunities provided. For this reason the artist residency has been designated as a six month residency. Financial Terms:
The American Scandinavian Foundation provides support of the participation in the programmes in the ISCP. Citizens of Norway are eligible for these residency grants
alone.
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In 2008/2009, OCA offers a studio grant for a Norwegian artist
at the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
The artist will by selected by a jury which includes a
representative from Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, together with
the jury members selected by OCA. The studio is granted for a
period of 12 months to a Norwegian artist: 01 December 2008–15
November 2009. The recipient artist will receive a grant of NOK 137
500 from OCA. The artist must meet all other travel and living
expenses. During the residency, the artist will be offered an
exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
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OCA has re-opened the application process for Platform Garanti as the residency period has moved from spring 2008 to fall 2008. In accordance with the curatorial wishes of Platform and in respect to the change in the residency period, OCA re-opens the application process with a new deadline of 15 March. A decision as to the selection will be made by April 2008. In 2008, OCA makes a three-month residency available at Platform Garanti for art critics, for artists working as writers, for curators, as well as for artists. The applicants must be residents of Norway and be available for assuming the residency in Istanbul for the full period of September through end of November 2008. The residency made available at Platform Garanti, is a premiere one at the renown non-profit arts centre directed by Vasif Kortun in Istanbul. Applicants for the residency are to be those who can respond to the diverse aspects of Istanbul and to an open engagement with other international artists and cultural producers from different disciplines. It is suggested that applicants have no other engagements during the period of their stay. The terms: Through Platform Garanti, OCA offers one studio grant at the Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Programme, in addition to a grant of NOK 4 000 for travel expenses and a monthly stipend of NOK 8 000 for living expenses. The residency programme is supported by 03–funding*.
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Upcoming Resident March 2008: Hanne Mugaas (Curator) Hanne Mugaas (b. 1980) is an independent
curator based in New York, where she is currently assisting
Associate Curator Barbara London in the Media Department at the
Museum of Modern Art. At the MoMA, she recently organized the
screening The Artist and the Computer and co-organized the event
SummerJam: Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel and Slow Jams Band. Mugaas'
exhibitions and screenings have taken place in Berlin, Paris,
London, New York and Tokyo. Recent projects include the screening
Extended Animation: Digital Effects, Corporate Logos and Style, at
Gallery F15 in Moss, Norway; the event Art Since 1960 (According to
the Internet) at [OCA NYC]; the exhibition Paris was Yesterday, at
La Vitrine in Paris; and The Copy and Paste Show, for rhizome at
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She holds an MA in
Curating from Goldsmiths, University of
London. |
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Closed Session is a short term residency in NYC offered to individual artists at the invitation of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. The purpose of Closed Session is to provide invited artists with the opportunity to gain a broader knowledge of other artist practices, to extend one's network of associations, and to enter into a dialogue with other curators, artists and professionals within a one week period. During the artist's stay, meetings and critiques are coordinated by [OCA, NYC]. Closed Session is a one week residency held at minimum once per semester. Closed Session 18 February–3 March 2008: Nina Schjønsby Nina Schjønsby's research is based around an investigation into
the first ten years in the history of video art in an effort to
make apparent the less documented and visible works within the
discourse of video art and which according to Schjønsby, are
closely linked to women's significant contribution to history of
video art. Schjønsby's research will include meetings with seminal
figures such as Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas, Dee Dee Halleck (Former
member of Tee Pee Video Space Troupe and Founder of Paper Tiger
TV/professor), Nancy Cain (Former member of Videofreex), Joan
Braderman, Kate Horsfield (Co-founder of Video Data Bank), Phyllis
Gershuny (Former member of Raindance). Nina Schjønsby's (b. 1972 in
Vadsø, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. She is a writer and
translator, writing for magazines like SITE and Billedkunst, and
diverse art related publications, and translating art theoretical
texts. She is a member of the editorial board in
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Please note that the results of the 15 February application deadline will be announced by mid April, 2008. For any questions regarding the procedures, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at OCA at vb@oca.no. Next application deadline for International Support is
15 May 2008.
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Gardar Eide Einarsson to be included within the
upcoming Whitney Biennial
2008, NY, NY, USA
The curatorial team of Shamim Momim, Associate Curator at the Whitney, and Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney, have selected Gardar Eide Einarsson among 80 other artists to participate in the 2008 Whitney Biennial scheduled to open to the public in NYC 6 March 2008. The exhibition which runs through 1 June is noted as the Whitney's "signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today." Other artists included within this year's Biennial include Rita Ackermann, Carol Bove, Coco Fusco, Gang Gang Dance, Rachael Harrison, Ellen Harvey, Mary Heilmann, Karen Kliminick, Louise Lawler, Spike Lee, Lucky Dragons, Corey McCorkle, Rodney McMillan, Seth Price, Frances Starck, Mungo Thomson, James Welling, among others. Tickets for the 2008 Biennial are on sale from February 2008 and are available on www.whitney.org. |
Lars Laumann, Still, Berlinmuren, 2008, Video, 32 min, English, loop, color, sound |
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Pushwagner and Lars Laumann to be included within the
upcoming 5th berlin
biennial for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic, curators of the 5th berlin biennial, taking place day and night from 5 April to June 15, 2008 under the title When things cast no shadow, have selected two Norwegian artists, Pushwagner and Lars Laumann, to participate in the biennial. Pushwagner will show his pictorial novel Soft City (1969–1975), which gives an account of one day in the life of anonymous father-mother-child family, living a mechanical life in a dehumanized city. The curators' interest in the piece stems from the way the pictorial novel has served as a key work that simultaneously acts as source material for Pushwagner's later production, but also an important reference for the generation of artists that followed him. In showing it, they hope it will "give access to a significant work of art still unknown to a larger public and thus paying tribute to an important work not yet having received proper recognition." Lars Laumann will screen his latest film, Berlinmuren (2008), which centers on a highly unusual relationship: the love affair between Eija-Riita Berliner-Mauer and the Berlin Wall. Laumann's approach is not primarily documentary but is guided instead by a respectful interest in the idiosyncrasies of marginalized social phenomena — not only that such relationships are possible in modern popular culture, but also how society reacts to them. Laumann has been involved in designing the special structure that will be built on the wasteland area of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum to screen the film. In addition to showing his new project, Laumann has also been invited to curate one of the five exhibitions at the Schinkel Pavillon in which he will present different aspects of Pushwagner's oeuvre. The Schinkel Pavillon will be inaugurated two weeks before the official opening of the biennial and continues two weeks after it officially ends on 15 June, hosting a series of rotating, artist-curated solo exhibitions of more obscure and/or historic figures from the world of art, architecture, and design. The solo presentation of Pushwagner curated by Lars Laumann will open on 10 April, 2008 at the Schinkel Pavillon at 7pm. Participation of AiPotu, Lene Berg, Annie Anawana Haloba
Hobøl and Pushwagner and special projects by Vibeke Tandberg and
Matias Faldbakken, in the 16thBiennale of
Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The 2008 Biennale of Sydney as curated by its Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev entitled Revolutions — Forms that Turn will include a presentation of approximately 80 artists from 1913 to today. According to Christov-Bakargiev, the "exhibition will navigate in different ways artists have revolutionized contemporary art. It will explore rotating, turning upside down, shifting points of view, revolving, mirroring and reversing as formal devices, as well as charting their broader aesthetic, psychological, psychoanalytic and indirectly radical and political perspectives." Among those artists selected —aiPotu, Lene Berg, Annie Anawana Haloba Hobol, and Pushwagner, in addition to important historical works from the collection of Erling Neby in Oslo — among them works by Jesus Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely. Although included in the previous Sydney biennale, the artistic director has also invited artists Vibeke Tandberg and Matias Faldbakken to create special projects in conjunction with the formal exhibition. The 2008 Biennale of Sydney will be held from 18 June–7 September 2008, and has been supported with a grant from OCA's International Support Programme. A portion of this grant is provided by 03–funding*. For further developing information, please refer to www.biennaleofsydney.com.au, or contactinfo@oca.no. You can preview artworks, texts and links in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney Online Venue. Participation of Knut Åsdam, Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl and Helen & Hard Architects in Manifesta 7 Trentino — Südtirol/Alto Adige, Italy
From Manifesta's press release: "Manifesta is the European Biennial of Contemporary art, changing locations every two years. The next Manifesta edition, Manifesta 7, takes place in 2008 and will be situated along a string of locations on Europe's North-South transit route, linking the regions of the Austrian Tyrol to the Italian South Tyrol and Northern Italy. It is the first time that Manifesta takes place in a Host Region instead of a Host City. From the beginning, Manifesta was not intended to be an ordinary biennial exhibition. Instead, it was meant to provide a fairly open structure, with the goal of creating a meaningful, long-term dialogue and building up links between European and international artists and audiences. After recently initiating an edition for the very periphery of Europe, Manifesta now returns to the European heartland." |
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Gardar Eide Einarsson at Centre D'Art Contemporain
Genève
Centre D'Art Contemporain
Genève holds the first solo exhibition of work
by Gardar Eide Einarsson in Switzerland
through 16 March, 2008. The exhibition, co-produced with
the Frankfurter Kunstverein,
is curated by Katya García-Antón.
García-Antón writes: "The theatrical vocation of the artist's
practice reveals correspondence, art historically speaking, to
modernity's crisis with the social".
Camilla Løw at Dundee Contemporary Arts
Straight Letters marks the first solo exhibition by the Norwegian artist Camilla Løw which opened at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland in February 2008. The exhibition, curated by the DCA's Deputy Director Judith Winter will be accompanied by a publication with texts by Michael Archer and Sarah Lowndes. P.S.1/MoMA will host a solo project by Børre Sæthre scheduled to open in NYC in September 2008. The exhibition curated by Lia Gangitano, Curatorial Advisor to P.S.1/MoMA, will include the artist's various installations created specifically for his recent show under the title For Someone Who Nearly Died but Survived at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway that evoke hybrid spaces reflecting upon the artist's own fantasies, confessions rendered in morphed interiors. Karl Ingar Røys participates in a solo project entitled Would-be Immigrants Must Watch Kiss Video at the Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam in Holland. The exhibition curated by Kim Bouvy opened on 17 January and will run through 15 April, 2008. The artist is invited by Kim Bouvy from Het Wilde Weten to discuss the initiative of the Dutch Immigrant Authorities to use video-tests in order to implement common cultural reference points for people who wish to settle in Holland. This project is a continuation of Røys' earlier work entitled Erna's Video whereby the artist refers to the documentary format to focus in on how media is politically used by Norwegian politicians with the purpose to dissuade asylum seekers from entering into the country. |
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The Swiss Institute in New York launches its new project space STUDIO 495, to offer the opportunity of a more spontaneous approach to curating. The first show, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, that opened 13 February and runs through 22 March 2008, brings together an international group of artists; Fia Backström, Jonathan Horowitz, Scott King, Germaine Kruip, Malcom McLaren, David Perry, Vivienne Westwood and Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad. Selected works are hung in pairs and confront each other in a provocative way: Juxtaposition is rooted in the Art Historical practice of formal comparison, which Heinrich Wölfflin popularized in his Principles of Art History, 1915. The exhibition is curated by Gianni Jetzer. Stefan Schröder participates in Über Tage_07, which is a site specific project, reflecting urban landscape development and site specific interventions after several decades of coalmining activities in the former East-German region of Sachsen. The project opened 1 September 2007, and will expand into the summer of 2008. The project is curated by Susanne Altmann. Kjersti Andvig has been invited to present her year long project entitled Knitting and Death Penalty at the non-profit Triangle Marseille at La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille. Curated by Dorothee Dupuis, Andvig's project, which opens in March 2008, tracks the correspondence both written and visual between the artist and a convicted prisoner on Death Row in Texas. Anne Senstad participates in a site specific project entitled The Light House through 8 March, 2008. The project has been commissioned by KK Projects, an initiative based in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans in four previously abandoned structures: a former bakery and three 1800s houses. The properties sit in a one block area with each structure housing a site-specific installation for a three month exhibition period. |
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Randi Nygård will participate in European Exhibition of Young Artists at La Centrale Electrique en Brussels, European Center of Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium, 22 February–18 May 2008. The exhibition is organized by the International Association of Art Critics and it will feature newly educated young artist from all of Europe. Simon Harvey, First Amanuensis in Critical Theory at the Art Academy in Trondheim, Norway, Ph.D. from and former teacher at Goldsmith, London, UK, will write the catalogue text. Bergen based curator Mona Bentzen has been invited by the Elizabeth Foundation, NYC, to curate a compilation of video works by Norwegian artists at the EFA Gallery in NYC in the last week of March 2008. Gardar Eide Einarsson participates in the exhibition Come, come, come into my world curated by Andrew Renton that runs from November 16, 2007 through 31 August, 2008 at the Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection in Cascais in Portugal. Other participating artists are: Aleksandra Mir, Anri Sala, Dash Snow, Douglas Gordon, Erwin Wurm, Francis Alÿs, Franz West, Gabriel Orozco, Glenn Ligon, Haim Steinbach, Hamish Fulton, Jack Pierson, João Onofre, João Pedro Vale, John Bock, John Stezaker, Joseph Kosuth, Jimmie Durham, Mike Kelley, Miroslaw Balka, Muntean & Rosenblum, Olafur Eliasson, Raymond Pettibon, Rodney Graham, and Thomas Schütte. Adriana Alves at Fuzuê Arte e Cultura in Rio de Janeiro: José Loyola has invited Adriana Alves to exhibit in the new art center Fuzuê in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Alves' two floor-exhibition there will be a Norwegian contemporary video art programme and a seminar. Adriana Alves will exhibit two installations and three sculptures. Her project is entitled Tragedy of the Common Man. The exhibition is supported by 03–Funding*. Sissel Tolaas and Verdensteatret have been invited to exhibit within "Synthetic Times — Media Art China 2008, a Cultural Olympics Project" at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition curated by the NY based media curator,Zhang Ga, is organized around four distinctive yet interrelated themes that testify to the incessant and obsessive pursuit of an ideal world through artistic intervention into media and communications technologies as well as bio-cultural spheres. The four themes are: "Beyond Body", "Emotive Digital", "Blur: The Recombinant Reality", and "Here, There and Everywhere". The exhibition will include approximately 50 media works and is scheduled from 9 June through 3 July, as one of the more important cultural events leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. The project is supported by 03–funding*. Lene Berg's videos The Weimar Conspiracy and Sketches for Nietzsche's Laughter are part of the show Subversion of Standstill in Halle 14, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig through 23 March. They are also part of the show Geschichtet in the project-room of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Unni Gjertsen is invited by Corinne Diserens, Director at MUSEION — Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Bolzano, and OCA IVP visitor in November last year, to select films by Mai Zetterling for the opening exhibition of MUSEION's new building. The show, entitled Peripheral Look and Collective Body will open on 24 May and close on 21 September 2008.Peripheral Look and Collective Body discusses the question of the collective bodies in contemporary visual art considering the tight relationship with architecture and performance — dance in particular. |
Randi Nygård
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Kunst and Kapital #5 Speaker: Polly Staple
About the talk Polly Staple will give an illustrated introduction to the research project "Switzerland: Art, Commerce and the Desiring Subject" which explores the relationship of art and commerce as read through the desiring subject, from free market economics to cannibalism. The project explores how one experiences the artwork and establishes a subject position as mediated through the exhibition and beyond, from production to dispersal, from private to public experience while accounting for the cultural value systems and the socio-economic framework of circulation and exchange informing these encounters. "Switzerland" touches on the gold standard, property relations, relational aesthetics, myth making, enigmatic signifiers, erotic barriers and the poignancy of things. The talk will also include discussion of some previous curatorial projects and will cite works by Marcel Broodthaers, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons alongside those by David Robbins, Cathy Wilkes, Aleksandra Mir, Jeremy Deller and Roman Ondak. Click here for more information. |
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The event in [OCA NYC]: Molly Nesbit in a Q + A with Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, is rescheduled until Thursday, 24 April, 19:00. Click here for the OCA Semesterplan Winter 2008. |
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The Spring 2008 issue of Afterall 17 was launched in late January. The journal opens with an essay by OCA Director Marta Kuzma, discussing the diverse effects of the sexual liberation movement within the cultural and political context during the late 1960s and '70s, and continues with the analysis of several artistic positions that either refer directly to the political ideals of that time or illuminate a particular aspect of that moment — for example, in terms of sexual mores and their representation, politics and its relationship to activism or history and the way it determines the present. Artist profiles within the issue include also that of Bjarne Melgaard with essays by Ina Blom and Bart De Baere. Afterall is co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London and California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, in association with MuHKA, Antwerp. For more information, please visit: www.afterall.org. The publicaton is distributed in Norway at Torpedo bookstore. Frankfurter Kunstverein and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genéve has released a full catalogue on Gardar Eide Einarsson, entitled South of Heaven with contributions by Chus Martinez and Ina Blom among others. The catalogue is published by Revolver. |
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The winner of the 2006 Munch Award Alice Creischer opened the exhibition ...for the Osmotic Compensation Of The Pressure Of Wealth. Alice Creischer: works and collaborations at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona on 31 February. The exhibition runs through 18 May. |
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Date: Wednesday, 12 March, 2008
Founded in 1953, the Bergen International Festival has successfully established itself as the biggest stage festival of Norway. In the North European art scene, the festival which since 2006 has been run under the motto "Nordic Impulses", ranks amongst the most important and finest of its kind. From 21 May–4 June 2008, the Bergen International Festival — also known as the "Salzburg of Scandinavia" — once again opens to a multifaceted programme revolving around several of its own striking productions from the fields of opera, theatre and dance. Within the framework of a press conference in Berlin, the artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will present their interpretation of Kaija Saariaho's L’amour de loin. The Norwegian-Danish couple have been selected to curate both the Danish Pavilion and the Nordic Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2009. Festival director Per Boye Hansen will give a brief introduction to the 2008 programme and some of its highlights. |
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Curating in the expanded field: Application deadline: 7 March 2008. Initiated in 1994 by Saskia Bos, the Curatorial Programme of de
Appel arts centre wishes to offer young curators a condensed
package of experiences and skills that can be used as tools and
instruments during the further development of their professional
career. De Appel is an internationally oriented arts centre located
in Amsterdam that functions as a site for the production of
performances, research and presentation of contemporary visual arts
through a series of exhibitions, publications and discursive
events.
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1 April 2008 is the deadline for applications for the Whitney
Independent Study Program in New York City which consists of three
interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program and Critical
Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students
pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship,
and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that
examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of
artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and
critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that
constitute the field of culture. Each year twelve students are
selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the
Curatorial Program and six in the Critical Studies Program. The ten
students participating in the Curatorial and Critical Studies
Programs each year are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in
recognition of the substantial support provided by the Helena
Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and
concludes at the end of the following May.
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Proposals accepted online until February 29. Each season, apexart accepts proposals for two exhibitions. This program is designed to give people with interesting curatorial concepts an opportunity to have them considered and possibly presented in a professional, recognized venue based on the quality of idea rather than past experience. Applications are welcomed and encouraged from around the world. Visit the site for more info, guidelines and to apply: www.apexart.org. |
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Helsinki International Curatorial Programme currently offers
curatorial residencies in Helsinki for international visual arts
curators. The programme is collaboration between HIAP — Helsinki
International Artist-in-residence Programme and FRAME Finnish Fund
for Art Exchange. Applications should be received by 1 May 2008.
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Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production Fine Art,
Design, Theory — Call for Applications:
Application details and form can be accessed at www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html. |
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Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 April 2008. Duration of
Festival: May/June 2009
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*03–funding: The purpose of the 03-funds as allocated by the MFA to OCA is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers, and organizations that are located in designated countries or associated with 03-countries. This includes but is not limited to "professional research visits by cultural producers, artists, and curators", "short-term residencies for cultural producers and artists", "the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries", "project development "and pilot projects" on an international scale." |
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