The online Compendium: a web-based information system on cultural policies in Europe -- "Cultural policies in Europe : a compendium of basic facts and trends (or short: Compendium) is a reference tool on national cultural policies which is available for public use as an online information system on the Internet [1]. It provides administrators, decision-makers, researchers, politicians, journalists, and other interested users with easy access to up-to-date facts, statistics, trends, strategies, examples and current debates of national cultural policy in Europe."