The European Diploma in Cultural Project Management is a pan-European training programme arising from the will to foster cultural diversity as well as transregional and transnational cultural exchanges.

The Association Marcel Hicter is the organizer and manager of the course. The objective is threefold:

• To strengthen the knowledge of cultural managers about European, national and regional cultural policies;
• To improve cultural managers skills to run cultural co-operation projects;
• To develop a network of European cultural managers.

Each year, around 25 professionals from +/- 20 countries are taking part in the European Diploma. Since 1989, more than 570 cultural managers from 45 countries (from Europe mainly and the Middle East, Canada, Sénégal, etc) followed this course. The programme is supported by the Council of Europe.