The Council for Cultural Co-Operation

Abstract

When the Council for Cultural Co-operation came into existence within the Council of Europe on the 1st January, 1962, it embodied the will of close on a score of European Governments to co-operate in matters educational and cultural. Since that time, this co-operation has shown an expansion in effort and an evolution in form. The purpose of this article is to study the nature and significance of this intergovernmental co-operation, which is carried out within the framework of the European Cultural Convention. Inasmuch as the CCC (as it is known to those who work in it and to those who work for it) is the instrument of this co-operation, its place within the Council of Europe and its relations with the Governments which co-operate through it will have to be described. And since the creation of the CCC was itself the culmination of a process, indeed of a number of processes, over a period of years, it will be necessary to start with a brief historical survey.

Mr. Anthony Haigh is Director of Education and Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Secretariat-General of the Council of Europe.