Cultural Policy Research of Culture and Development
The University of Hildesheim is studying Goethe-Institut programmes in the scope of the Culture and Development initiative.
In 2008, the University of Hildesheim and the Goethe-Institut concluded a cooperation agreement. In addition to placing trainees and enhancing teaching to include international cultural and educational policy, the agreement also aimed to intensify research on aspects of the Goethe-Institut. One of the focuses of content is Culture and Development.
At present six degree candidates at the Institute of Cultural Policy are handling this theme as a new, interdisciplinary field in the placement work of the Goethe-Institut. From the specific perspective of Hildesheim’s cultural sciences 
and aesthetical communications, the significance of example programmes from the Culture and Development initiative for the work and the sphere of action of the Goethe-Institut are being studied. Expertise from international discussion about culture and development are being incorporated as well as political schemes and theories on development and foreign cultural policy. The focus is on the actual project examples, which are being observed in the research work for their ambitions and realities and related to their objectives.
The Goethe-Institut is providing travel cost grants for the research work of the degree candidates in Eastern Europe/Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. The degree candidates are assisted on location by the staff of the Goethe-Instituts. The research project is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider and Daniel Gad and serves as a pilot study for the research branch on Cultural Policy and Development Cooperation in the activities of the Institute of Cultural Policy. International cultural and educational policy has been taught and researched there since 1998 as part of the Cultural Sciences and Aesthetical Communication course of studies.
