Mission

The vast cultural richness of the Americas embodies thousands of different ways of looking at the world. This richness constitutes an extraordinary source of ideas to address diverse topics from how to preserve and protect cultural heritage, to questions of identity, dignity and the role of minority groups, to innovative relationships between cultural production and national economies. More

Preservation and Protection of Cultural Heritage/Culture, Identity and Diversity /Culture, Economics and Development/Cultural Information Systems/

 The process of Inter-American Meetings of Ministers of Culture and Highest Appropriate Authorities forms part of the main mission of the Office of Education and Culture, that of promoting policy dialogue and consensus at hemispheric level on priority topics of the public policy agenda in the field of culture. All of the above within the framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development of the OAS (CIDI). More

 Inter-American Committee on Culture

The Inter-American Committee on Culture, or CIC, is a body for discussion at the technical - policy level. It is composed of representatives of the Ministries of Culture and highest appropriate authorities of the Americas. Its main function is to follow the implementation of the mandates of the Declarations and Plans of Action of the Ministerial Meetings on Culture, as well as of those that emanate from the Summits of the Americas.

What is the CIC?/ Rules of Procedure/ Plenary Meetings/ Meetings of the CIC Authorities 

Knowledge Sharing

In addition to facilitating policy dialogue, the OEC promotes the exchange of technical knowledge among our Member countries in the areas of education and culture. Furthermore, in the area of Culture, the knowledge-sharing strategy is based on two basic tools envisioned by Ministers of Culture of the Americas in the First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and Highest Appropriate Authorities, and represented in: the Portfolio of Promising Programs in Culture and the Knowledge - sharing workshops. More 

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