Areas of Responsibility - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth

• Culture

  The objectives of national cultural policy include: taking action to enable everyone to participate in cultural life, to experience culture and to engage in creative activities of their own; promoting cultural diversity, artistic renewal and quality; enabling culture to act as a dynamic, challenging and independent force in society; preserving and making use of our cultural heritage; promoting a thirst for learning, and promoting international cultural exchange and meetings between different cultures in the country.

• Cultural policy covers issues concerning archives, museums and the cultural environment; theatre, dance and music; architecture, form, design and the visual arts; libraries, literature and cultural publications; payments and grants to artists; film and video; handicrafts; research and development in the field of culture; access to cultural activities for people with disabilities: culture for national minorities; culture for children and young people; culture in working life; culture and the popular movements: support for regional cultural activities; and the interaction between cultural policy and other policy areas.

• Media

  The objective of the Government's media policy is to support freedom of expression, diversity and the independence of and accessibility to mass media, as well as to combat harmful elements in mass media.

• Sports

  National sports policy is founded on three key principles:

• 1. To promote good public health, the community at large and schools must encourage and provide opportunities for people of all ages to exercise and practise sport.
  2. A free and independent sports movement must be actively supported. It must be based on voluntary commitment and engage in wide-ranging activities that sustain sound ethics and equal conditions for girls and boys, women and men. It must work actively for integration and foster democratic values.
  3. Entertainment through elite sport, which to some extent consists of commercial entertainment, also has a valuable part to play by offering recreation and enjoyment.

• State financial support for religious communities is provided as state grants and as assistance in collecting members fees. State financial support is distributed by the Swedish Commission for State Grants to Religious Communities.

• Burial and cremation services

  In Sweden burials and cremations are a public responsibility.