• Crossborder cultural portal in Western Europe• Agenda: 3500 - 4000 events, guide: 7000 entries• Articles: news, jobs, calls… • Strategic instrument for crossborder cooperation

Content collection…

• Import via XML from existing databases

• User generated content (700 users)

• Result: up to 4000 events online

… and dissemination

• Export (XML) to specific databases and via RSS Feeds

• Export to print (city magazine Luxembourg)

• Result: + 100.000 persons/month reached (9000 on the actual website).

Crossborder network…

• 6 regional administrators located in governmental cultural administrations

• One coordinating structure (“Agence culturelle” in Luxembourg)

…sharing work…

• Territorial responsibility for the content collection and network

• Decentralised management of the portal

… and sharing costs.

• Partnership of 8 cultural administrations funding common activities

• Regional activities are financed in the regions

• Partners from other

networks are more and more involved

Challenge 1 : easier content collection

• Better usability for content providers, while improving the quality of the data

• Enlarging the network of content providers

Challenge 2 : content dissemination

• Increasing the strategic use of cultural content

• Bringing content to “non cultural” sectors

• More visitors on the portal website

“Why should I change ?”

• Web 2.0 vs reality

• Existing “old” business models and structures

• Unaware decision makers

• Lack of knowledge, expertise and good practice

plurio.net - the cultural portal of the Greater Region

Contact

Agence luxembourgeoise d‘action culturelle51, Boulevard RoyalL-2449 LuxembourgLuxembourg+352 46 49 46 1

agence.culturelle@culture.lufrank.thinnes@culture.lu

www.plurio.net