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The Cultural Deal for Europe campaign, jointly developed by Culture Action Europe (CAE), the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), and Europa Nostra, aims to bring culture at the centre of the European project and mainstream it across all policy fields. It focuses on both facilitating the contribution of culture to Europe’s sustainable development ...
Walk the Plank is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Chair of the Board of Trustees, Dr Beatriz Garcia, Senior Research Fellow in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, as the company enters its fourth decade of artistic innovation in outdoor spaces. Dr Beatriz Garcia is a member of the European Capital of Culture ...
Today, IETM, together with 15 other international cultural networks, launched the SHIFT eco-certification pilot phase. The aim of this process is to co-develop a bespoke eco-certification for cultural networks, taking into account their specific needs and working methods. Such a certification, established in partnership with Creative Carbon ...
The four priorities of the Swedish Presidency address security, competitiveness, green and energy transition, and the rule of law and democratic values. In relation to culture, Sweden will focus its work on the topic of freedom of artistic expression. The Presidency intends to address artistic freedom by linking it to the urgency of improving ...
Culture Moves Europe is the new permanent mobility scheme funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut. It will offer grants to artists, cultural professionals and host organisations in all Creative Europe countries who work in the sectors of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion ...
The Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-24 was adopted in December with a budget of around €13.5 billion (out of the Horizon Europe total budget of €95.5 billion). The first calls for proposals under the new Work Programme are now available here. IETM Members may be particularly interested in cluster 2 “ Culture, creativity and inclusive society” ...
On 16 December, the European Parliament adopted its priorities for the cultural policy within and beyond the EU’s borders. The European Parliament asked the EU to focus on new priorities for the coming years, which includes improving the working and social conditions of cultural and creative professionals, ensuring the inclusion of the most ...
In December 2022, the European Commission published a report on the cultural dimension of sustainable development in EU action. The report was published in the wake of the final Declaration of Mondiacult, the UNESCO Conference on cultural policies and sustainable development (Mexico, September 2022) and the adoption of the EU Work Plan for Culture ...
The New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023 are open to applications from candidates of the EU Member States as well as, for the first time, the Western Balkans. The prizes will award up to 30.000 euros for exemplary initiatives showing the link between sustainability, aesthetics and inclusiveness, the three complementary values of the Commission’s ...
In 2023, the Creative Europe programme pursues its support to the cultural and creative sectors considering the still challenging context post-COVID. The 2023 work programme comes with a budget of €312 million. Around €90 million will be allocated to help the cultural and creative sectors recover and become more resilient following the COVID-19 ...