Logroño, (EFE).- The president of the La Rioja Government, Concha Andreu, has presented this Monday a Strategic Plan for Culture of La Rioja 2023-2026, which considers “the arts as an essential pillar of balanced and sustainable territorial development, together with the social, economic and environmental.
It is a Plan, the result of forums such as the Culture Table and sectoral meetings, added the president at the presentation ceremony, held in Riojaforum, together with the Minister and the General Director of Culture, Pedro Uruñuela and Ana Zabalegui, so respective.
Andreu has indicated that this Plan will be “the roadmap in terms of cultural policy, which should guide the action of the regional Executive during the next four years, and that it reaches its point of preparation as a result of the joint path with the sector”.
He has ensured that “the measures that are collected are, to a large extent, the result of a participatory work process that has been developed for months and in which representatives of the Rioja cultural and creative sector have intervened, as well as municipalities and the Riojan Government ”.
This document, he continued, “represents a milestone, a challenge and an opportunity that allows establishing a roadmap for the prioritization, organization and reactivation of a cultural action that promotes the impulse and consolidation of the cultural ecosystem around the common objective of Let there be more culture and reach more people.”
He has stressed that this initiative seeks to “position culture as a pillar to promote sustainable development and the transformation of social and economic models.”
This Plan, he said, “does not have a merely sectoral orientation, but focuses on two other dimensions of vital importance: on the one hand, the citizen, which is approached from an orientation of democratization and the right to culture, as well as the need to work for a greater social appreciation of the arts”.
Andreu has pointed out that this document includes “priorities for action that hope to have an impact on greater effectiveness and efficiency of the public management of culture, both internally and externally to the institution itself, and its reorientation and reordering to other administrative instances and to the citizenship”. EFE