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\nThe Directorate-General for the Arts (DGARTES) is a central department of the Ministry of Culture, created as a result of the reorganization of the Arts Institute, as part of the Civil Service reform.<\/p>\n

The mission of DGARTES is to coordinate and carry out arts support policies, foster institutional partnerships and conduct the necessary course of action to ensure the universal character of its undertaking, as well as the freedom and qualification of artistic creation.<\/p>\n

The core objectives of DGARTES include: to support independent cultural agents, to actively promote the internationalisation of Portuguese arts and artists, to divulge the works of artists and interpreters through publications in various types of media and to encourage innovation and experimenting in the field of the arts. This is part of a comprehensive strategy that aims to support artistic creation and dissemination, the development of new audiences and increased international cooperation and exchange.<\/p>\n

The competences of DGARTES comprise the implementation of the new arts support policy approved by Decree-Law no. 225 \/ 2006 of 13 November, whose core objectives include the consolidation and sustainability of a network of technically and vocationally oriented independent cultural agents spread out evenly throughout the various regions of the country.<\/p>\n

This network is responsible for the introduction of new intervention models in articulation with other sectorial policies, for encouraging partnerships with local authorities, and also for supporting production and programming, particularly with the purpose of giving renewed visibility and reviving the network of municipal theatre-movie houses.<\/p>\n

The new arts promotion policy also aims to encourage increased sharing of responsibilities between the State, cultural agents, local authorities and other public and private bodies, with a view to promoting the creation and dissemination of the arts. Accordingly, this led to the set up of the Territorial-Arts Programme, in the form of a virtual workshop managed by DGARTES, thus making all relevant information available in real time, both in terms of production and of programming infrastructures. This enables a contractual alignment between type of activity, venues, calendar and technical and financial conditions for execution, while, in the process, integrating measures that aim to correct regional asymmetries and social inequalities through the endorsement of the effective decentralisation of cultural activities.<\/p>\n

By making full use of available tools for the virtual management of information, DGARTES is equally responsible for ensuring the recording, organisation and dissemination of contemporary production, either by generating or integrating national and international information networks that are accessible to both professionals and the public at large.