KVS artistic board consists of 10 people (dramaturge, director and/or actor) who decide on the entire artistic program, but are not necessarily the 'motor' of 5 to 7 new (co)productions a year that can be based on existing text, freshly commissioned text, thematic improvisation, etc. We tour some of these productions in Belgium and outside. We invite a large range of performing arts from Belgium and outside and, in order to complete the program, set up debates, lectures, exhibitions, parties etc. We have developed a trajectory of artistic exchange with Congo, and on a smaller scale, with the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Applying an interdiscilpinary approach , The Public manangment Instiute is active number of fields:
- change management
- finance and performance management
- HRM and equal opprtunities
- ICT and e-government
- intergovernmental and intragovernmental relations and organisation
- policy and ethnics
- quality and citizen-government relations .
overview available www.publicmanagement.be

We established a women’s house in Afghanistan who was chosen by Le Figaro and Arte television, as the best humanitarian project of 2005. In this house women can have education, medical care and professional help to establish their own couture atelier.
We also support micro-credits in South-Africa.

Our activities are threefold: providing a platform for concerted acions and debate - current issues are: asylum policies, multiple discrimations, decision making, combination of professional and family life, social security, tax law, family law, bio-ethics and reproduction, education, sustainable development etc.-, informing and sensitising the civil society and lobbying for gender equality.

Ghent University offers numerous programs in each of the individual study fields. In 2004, Ghent University granted 8,850 diplomas: 3,266 for the first cycle, 3,478 for the second cycle, 1,092 for a post-graduate academic program, 605 for a teacher training program, 271 doctoral diplomas, and 138 certificates of predoctoral training. The results of the research-promotional policy are translated on various planes. E.g. numerous research projects, the presence of Ghent researchers in scientific journals of high international repute... Also the promotion and support of the valorisation of the research results is one of the policy priorities at the university. At the end of 2004, the patent portfolio of Ghent University contained 137 patent families owned or co-owned by Ghent University. Validation of this intellectual property was achieved through various channels. In total, there are 31 active validation agreements for the commercial use of patent and software rights, and copyright.

- Implementation of the structure Bologna 3+5 in progress since 2004
- Installation of collaborations and partnership with institutes and universities in Belgium or abroad in the field of media-communication and journalism
- Development of formation-modules continuing in Brussels on European questions (partnership with european institutes in Brussels).

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In 2007 and 2008 European Youth Press has organized, together with the European Parliament, the biggest event for young media makers from the 27 member states: the European Youth Media Days. This event brought together every year around 300 participants from the EU who had the chance to report from within the European Parliament for 3 days, to attend conferences and speak to MEPs. The young journalists met and produced media together. You can discover the media production from 2007 and 2008 at www.youthmediadays.eu.
Together with the European Commission and Media Consulta, EYP has coordinated the young journalists’ network for the Youthweek 2007 and 2008 and has promoted across 35 countries the European Young Journalist Award.
The European Youth Press aims to enable young people to give voice to their opinions on a European level and provide a critical view of media and politics through journalistic education as well as learning by doing. Orangelog.eu has been created to provide an interactive, multimedia platform for event coverage. Young journalists from all over Europe meet for the first time and take the challenge of working together to report about different events happening across the continent. In 3 years, Orangelog.eu young journalists have been reporting from more than 30 events like: The United Nations Human Rights Conference in Paris, France (2008), the NATO Afghan Student Forum in Pisa, Italy (2007), the first Asia-Europe Young Urban Leaders Dialogue, Madrid, Spain (2008), the Presidential Elections in Armenia (2008), etc. You can find more information about Orangelog on www.orangelog.eu.

With its collection and programme of 20 special exhibitions a year – ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovenian authors to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions – UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia and internationally. Well structured education programme joins different generations, ethnic groups and educational institutions. UGM is the place for every one!

Consulting:
alba KULTUR is working as consultant for global music for international, national and regional NGOs (festivals, art conventions, media, development institutions, religious institutions, editions, labels, venues, networks for performing art, artists etc.), with international and local public institutions and organisations (arts councils, ministries of culture, art schools and music academies etc.)
Birgit Ellinghaus had been a jury member of BabelMedMusic in Marseille/ France in 2011 and 2012. Since 2012 she is curator for the world music series of the Foundation Berlin Philharmonics. She is mentor for Cultural Management programs for Central Asia, SouthEastern Europe, Africa and South East Asia for institution such as Goethe Institut, Robert Bosch Foundation, Boreo World Music Forum. Since 2009 Birgit Ellinghaus is appointed member of the national advisory committee „Contact Point Diversity of Cultural Expressions” to the national expert committee for culture of the German UNESCO commission. Since 2013 she is appointed as extraordinary member of “Institut for World Music and Transcultural Music Studies IWTM” of “Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln”/ Germany 
 

Research:
alba KULTUR designed and conducted the first research of the german world music scene, published in  "EuroWorldBook" by IRMA / France (2010). This project had been followed by the research and mapping of cultral diversity in global music in Germany for the online plattform www.globale-musik.de in the behalf of  "Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum MIZ in collaboration with the Council of Music in North-Rhein-Westfalia" (2011 - 2013).
Research about situation of artist mobility and visa issues in collaboration with FREEMUSE/ Denmark (2008) and followed by the research to “Visa Code 2009” for german UNESCO and contibution to the online plattform www.touring-artists.info for the section “visa” in 2013.
alba KULTUR has designed and conducted the research “creole – Award for world music from Germany” in collaboration with Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln/ Germany (2007. alba KULTUR designed and produced the Int. Conference on the Future of Global Music in North-Rhein-Westfalia “Globalflux” 2010 www.globalflux.de
 

Promotor of concerts and special events:
Since the year 2000 alba KULTUR is the head of the North-Rhine-Westphalian network „Klangkosmos Weltmusik“ www.klangkosmos-nrw.de of more than 30 cities: Since we coordinated more than 1.500 concerts with 130 bands from five continents. The project’s task is to enable systematic, nationwide and sustainable debates about musical diversity through music of the world; to organize acoustic live concerts, cultural encounters, lectures and workshops with musicians to present their complex musical traditions; to create a common platform for international dialogue in culture and personal exchange of musicians with the audience - regardless of nationality, religion, or socio-cultural generation context; to provide qualified and easy accessible information about music of the world; to enable an insight view in different cultures and the understanding of social functions of music; to open debate on historical, geographical, religious and political meanings of music in the today’s world.
alba KULTUR produced the networking project of six cities in the Rhein-Ruhr area focusing on music of migrants from Turkey living in this region: “Music of the Imaginary Turkey”.
alba KULTUR produced festivals in collaboration with city councils like “Kemnade International 2001” (first german festival for music from Turkey and the turkish diaspora in Europe) in Bochum, “Musica Sacra - Klangkosmos Islam” 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 in Paderborn, “creole night” for Musiktrienale Köln 2011 - and many more.
alba KULTUR developed and produced the first edition of “creole – Award for world music from Germany”, regional edition for North Rhine Westphalia in Dortmund 2006 and 2008 as well as the first national edition of “creole 2007”.
The work of alba Kultur is a practical contribution to the implementation of the UNESCO "Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions" in Germany.