The object of the present partnership between ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Alentejo [DRCAlentejo], through OPAC - Observatório Português das Atividades Culturais (Portuguese Observatory of Cultural Activities), is to carry out a preliminary diagnostic study to informe the subsequent definition of the Regional Plan for Culture of Alentejo for 2020-2030. The methodology is mixed, with the use of secondary statistical sources (official statistics) and documentary sources, survey by questionnaire (municipal councils and intermunicipal communities), individual interviews (managers and staff of public and private institutions) and focus groups (intermunicipal communities and private agents with activity in different cultural domains).