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The "International Visitors Programme" of the NRW KULTURsekretariat, in cooperation with the NRW Ministry of Culture, brings together actors from the fields of cultural journalism, cultural mediation and cultural policy as well as heads of institutions, curators and other multipliers from all over the world with the scene in NRW.

Under the motto "NRWho? NRWhere? NRWhat?", around 100 international guests have been visiting North Rhine-Westphalia every year since 2009 and making new contacts.

Numerous visitors programmes are planned for 2020 and invitations have been issued to foreign creative artists to visit NRW.

In the coming years, the focus of the programme will also be on maintaining international and intercultural networks.

The International Visitors Programme cooperates closely with the State of NRW as well as its creative artists and cultural offices, with the Goethe Institute and cultural organisations abroad.

Partners from NRW and visitors from abroad can apply for theme, event, network and press trips in response to regular calls for applications. In addition to visiting performances, exhibitions or concerts, the invited participants can also gain an insight into the cultural life of the Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe.

Through personal encounters and intensive mediation by the NRWKS, cooperations between artists, companies or cultural institutions from NRW come about time and again.

Reports in foreign media also describe NRW as a cultural state and highlight its attractiveness as an international business location.

Since 2014, individual trips by foreign visitors have also been offered for the development of previously announced cooperation projects with partners in NRW.

In 2019, a total of 16 programmes were implemented, including video art, dance, theatre, street art, literature, games and jazz music. Contacts between actors from the arts and culture were mediated and deepened in moderated theme trips, for example to the centenary of the Bauhaus.

In addition, 2019 was marked by the 10th anniversary of the "International Visitors Programme", which was launched at the tanzhaus nrw together with the partners Ministry of Culture NRW and the Goethe-Institut under the title "SYNERGIZE! Culture in Democratic Actions".

More than 120 alumni and NRW actors discussed the future of the programme and international cultural work in NRW in Düsseldorf. On this occasion, an interactive world map with all alumni was developed and put online, which impressively demonstrates the global networking of the 10-year programme work and will be successively expanded.

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