# GOAL 1

https://2022.cat/en/sphere-1/goal-1

## To promote access to and participation in culture by innovating in terms of content, formats and distribution channels

We view access to culture as the gateway to rights and critical spirit, and we consider culture and education to be the driving forces behind personal, collective and nationwide transformations. The importance placed on culture reveals a great deal about a nation, and the character and identity of the Catalan cultural system is at stake in an increasingly digitalised and globalised world. Public service is responsible for certain functions and reaches certain audiences, but an alternative cultural realm exists on the sidelines that is young, creative, developed, brazen, often minority-based or even majority-based but with an alternative perspective often overlooked in public policies. The current cultural system is highly complex and cultural policies must have a clear impact on this whole fabric, strengthening the aspects for which we are pioneers. It is necessary to critically analyse and bring up to date all sectoral plans that have been approved but not implemented due to lack of resources, administrative coordination and political will, and which benefitted from strong participation from all cultural sectors. It is similarly necessary to assess the impact, return and yield – in social and economic terms – stemming from the cultural sector, focussing on the development of people and not simply on the development of industries or facilities.