The University of Valencia will host next Monday 11 of May the presentation of the report State of Culture in Spain 2025. Culture for peace, prepared by the Culture and Communication Observatory of the Fundación Alternativas. The act, organized jointly with ACICOM, with the collaboration of the Cultural Observatory of the UV and Econcult, proposes a reflection on the role of culture in the face of current geopolitical challenges, social and digital.
The presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the La Nau Cultural Center (18 hours) and will have the participation of Albert Moncusí Ferré, Vice Chancellor of Culture, Sports and Social Link of the University of Valencia, in charge of the institutional welcome. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón will intervene, president of the Alternatives Foundation; Patricia Corredor Lanas, report survey coordinator; Núria Lloret Romero, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and author of the study; i José Ignacio Pastor Pérez, president of ACICOM and also author of the report.
L’Report on the State of Culture in Spain 2025, which reaches its twelfth edition, analyzes the main challenges facing contemporary societies: the crisis of multilateralism, digital acceleration, geopolitical conflicts and the rise of the so-called "culture wars". The document raises the need to strengthen cultural cooperation and position culture as an essential public good linked to social well-being, sustainability and peace.
In line with the spirit of MONDIACULT 2025, which will be held in Barcelona, the report defends the role of cultural policies against discourses of exclusion and hatred, and claims to consider culture as an essential public service and cultural rights as fundamental human rights. Also, demands that culture be recognized as an independent Sustainable Development Objective in the international agenda after 2030.
The report claims that, in a context marked by institutional fragility and the advance of authoritarian movements, culture is one of the main instruments to combat social polarization and strengthen democratic coexistence.
