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and innovation, to appreciate audacity and tenacity, to legitimise, to enhancebeneficial impact and provide inspiration.PolicyThe Prince Claus Fund maintains a broad view of culture that accommodatesall types of artistic and intellectual disciplines. This open approach encom -passes the transmission of culture, achievements in education, media andthe applied arts, as well as fields such as sports, science and technology thatinteract with and impact on the domain of culture.The Fund’s agenda highlights interculturality and has a strong interest invocabularies and vernaculars that develop into universal languages linkingdifferent cultures. Amongst the multiplicity of cultural initiatives around theworld, the Fund seeks innovation and experimentation and welcomes proposalsfrom every cultural field and area of potential.The Fund continues its interest in previous themes, such as CreatingSpaces of Freedom, which addresses the ways in which artists and thinkersfind methods to express dissenting views. The Prince Claus Fund aims toprovide protection to culture in places where it is threatened and to explore‘zones of silence’.The complete Jury Report by the 2008 Prince Claus Awards Committeeis available in Spanish, French and English on the Fund’s website:www.princeclausfund.orgIf you would like to receive a printed copy of the 2008 Jury Reportin any of these three languages, please contact us. We will be delightedto fulfill your request.Culture and the Human Body 21