The Institute for Cultural Policy informs politicians, administrators, associations and cultural players on cultural policy issues.

It stands for action-oriented cultural policy research and empirically based cultural reporting.

Since 2006, the Institute for Cultural Policy has been researching, documenting and providing information on all developments of cultural policy, thus contributing to the transformation of the cultural infrastructure in Germany and beyond. It collects and evaluates data, compiles studies and reports, initiates and accompanies processes and advises actors from the fields of politics or administration. In addition, the Institute for Cultural Policy qualifies and connects cultural policy actors and stimulates expert debates. Thus, it contributes to the transfer of knowledge and to a greater public awareness of cultural policy issues.

The close alignement between the Institute for Cultural Policy and the Association for Cultural Policy, arising from its integral role within it, ensures that the Association’s members transfer the Institute’s research findings into practice via their networks and communicate them to the relevant target groups. Vice-versa, It also ensures that grassroots knowledge is included in ongoing research.