The aim of the Conference was to contribute to an academic and political identification, clarification and debate of the different ideas of nationalism displayed in cultural policies in Europe today based on tentative theoretical and empirical results of the project The conference was bringing together 22 experts from a variety of disciplines in cultural policy studies in Europe to discuss following topics: • How are identity, nationalism and cultural policy reflected in the human and social sciences? • Which ideas of identity are currently displayed in national European cultural policies and in the European Union? • Which theoretical and methodological approaches seem to be promising for further research and new political practises? The conference was structured in four sessions: Theoretical reflections on identity, nationalism and cultural policy, Ideas of identity in national cultural policies, Cultural policies in the European Union , theoretical and methodological considerations.