Dusseldorf: 2015–2017 cultural development planning (kulturentwicklungsplanung)

Main aims: developing longer-term governance guidelines to underpin robust cultural infrastructure that promotes diversity of cultural expression in cities with due consideration to demographic and digital change; implementing global sustainable development goals at the local level target groups: city society and administration; stakeholders funding, creating and/or interested in cultural content expected results: * safeguarding, strengthening and expanding diverse cultural content * setting objectives and concrete measures of municipal cultural policy for the coming years and creating planning certainty for cultural actors * signposting the inclusion of cultural policy in city-wide planning and urban development * identifying and protecting the public's cultural interests * promoting the transcultural openness of city society * establishing and transmitting cities' image as cultural sites across germany and internationally * bringing the activities of city administrations into line with the vision of the 17 sustainable development goals (sdgs)