The Institute of Leisure Studies has the pleasure to officially invite you to participate in and actively contribute to the international meeting of Cultural observatories ?New challenges of Cultural Observatories. State of Art and new demand of cultural information and knowledge for decision making? organized in Bilbao, Spain, next 11 ? 12 December 2008.

This meeting is part of a series of encounters in the framework of ENCATC that deals with current issues concerning cultural observatories and information and knowledge.

The event is expected to attract representatives from universities, cultural observatories and research organisations as well as politicians and experts from international, European and national institutions.

A second draft agenda with the names of the speakers present in Bilbao will be posted to you shortly. Meanwhile, if you are interested in taking and active role and in sharing with your colleagues the result of your experience or research, please don?t hesitate to contact us by mail or by phone.

In order to support you with recent and useful information we are planning to prepare a rich Conference Reader as well as to publish the Conference proceedings. Therefore, if you have any information about recent interesting publications, articles, researchers on this specific topic, please share them with your colleagues and send us an electronic copy of these documents.