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a tool for encouraging and facilitating networking and collaboration between cultural professionals in your country and their counterparts across the globe
 Even in an age of trans-global communication, many opportunities for creative cultural exchange are still lost as a result of a simple yet frustrating lack of information.
Instead of being able to enter immediately into informed dialogue with their counterparts, many cultural practitioners still have to research the cultural context of a particular country themselves and then waste more valuable time trying to identify the leading exponents of particular cultural sectors, or the infrastructure which supports them. For many this challenge is too great, and consequently cultural exchange continues to happen mainly with well-established partners.
The Cultural Profiles project circumvents this problem through the provision of appropriate, targeted information.
'One of the first requirements for effective partnership is the right information - accessible, relevant, current and expressed within a clear context. The Cultural Profiles Project breaks new ground in meeting these needs.'
(Mounir Bouchenaki, former Assistant Director General for Culture, UNESCO, 2006)
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