Singapore Art Show 2005
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) seeks to promote better mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges.
Established in February 1997 by the members of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), ASEF is based in Singapore and reports to a board of 39 governors representing the 38 ASEM countries* and the European Commission.
One way ASEF carries out its mandate is by creating its own projects. Some of these initiatives include Asia-Europe Lecture, Asia-Europe Young Artists' Painting Competition and Exhibition, Informal Human Rights Seminar, Asia-Europe Youth Co-operation Network, and ASEF Editors' Roundtable.
Having completed over 300 projects directly involving 15,000 people to date, ASEF always seeks to work in partnership with other institutions and private sector entities to ensure its work is broad-based and spread as widely as possible throughout ASEM member countries.
The Foundation is funded by contributions from the member governments, but the cost of many of its projects are shared by other institutions as well as private corporations of ASEM countries.
Welcome Message
By Ms Chulamanee Chartsuwan,
Director, Cultural Exchange, ASEF
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) has always been encouraging the use of the Internet, as a source of information and as a venue for discussion. ASEF's mandate is to make Europeans and Asians meet and cooperate in the fields of Intellectual, People-to-People and Cultural exchange. The Internet is thus a wonderful medium which allows a relative continuity of exchange, despite the geographical distance between people.
With CulturE-ASEF, we have now a tool specially dedicated to Asia-Europe Cultural Exchange. Institutions, organisations, festivals, studies, exchange programme, exhibitions, private initiatives of artists and publications: you will find all these and others classified and described at www.CulturE-ASEF.org.
This website will be continuously up-dated and enriched by our project-partners Dr. Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder who edit the excellent information and communication system Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. Both of them originated this concept of CulturE-ASEF, immediately supported by us and they are now responsible for its realisation and a large part of its promotion.
But CulturE-ASEF, this new platform of information and contacts, is your website and its quality also depends on you, as a consumer and as a provider of information. Therefore, don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you know anything relevant for Asia-Europe cultural cooperation.
This will allow the website CulturE-ASEF to become a real platform and a reference for Asia-Europe Cultural Exchange on the net.
* ASEM member countries are:
Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom and Vietnam
Source: ASEF
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