Our President HRH Princess Laurentien and European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel spoke about the role that art and culture can play in the recovery of Europe after the corona crisis in the Financieel Dagblad. Read the article in Dutch here and in English here.
Read More"Invest now in Europewide cultural relations"
In an open letter in the Financial Times, European Cultural Foundation Director André Wilkens called unto national governments, including the British, as well as the European institutions to join the initiative to increase investments in European cultural relations in the broadest sense.
Read MoreCity of Women: 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech
A full transcript of the 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech of ‘City of Women’, represented by programme director Teja Reba.
Read MoreAhdaf Soueif: 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech
A full transcript of Ahdaf Soueif’s 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech.
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2019 Opening remarks by HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
Democracy Needs Imagination is this year’s leitmotif for the independent jury to select the laureates of the Princes Margriet Award for Culture. It is also the underlying theme of our broader strategic approach at the European Cultural Foundation.
Read More2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of Ahdaf Soueif
2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrit of Ahdaf Soueif
Read More2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of City of Women
2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of City of Women
Read MoreMedia Coverage: 2017 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture
On Europe Day (9 May), the European Cultural Foundation has presented four outstanding laureates with the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture. Have a look at the Media Coverage.
Idea Camp 2017: Media Coverage
Links to the Idea Camp 2017's Media Coverage
Read MoreMedia Coverage - Re:Creating Europe
- De gevolgen van directe democratie worden onderschat (Interview with Ivan Krastev), Janne Chaudron in Trouw, 09/04/2016.
- Vrijheid, gelijkheid, broederschap? De macht aan het volk? Weinig van terechtgekomen, Thomas Vanheste in De Correspondent, 25/05/2016.
- Jude Law speelt mee in theatervoorstelling Ivo van Hove in Amsterdam, Hein Janssen in de Volkskrant, 17/05/2016
- Het populisme groeit, de integratie faalt. Kan cultuur Europa binden?, Roderick Nieuwenhuis in NRC, 26/05/2016
- Cultuur als Europese Kracht, Daan van Lent in NRC, 26/05/2016
- 'Kunst kan rol spelen bij politieke verandering in Europa', Michiel Goudswaard in FD, 3/06/2016
- Koolhaas geeft Europa terug tijdens marathoninterview in De Balie, Kirsten Hannema in de Volkskrant, 3/06/2016
- nooit meer slapen met o.a. Roy Villevoye, Robby Müller en Daphne Bunskoek, VPRO, 3/06/2016
- Europa se enfrenta a sus demonios, Borja Hermoso in El País, 3/06/2016
- Looking to the cultural world to solve Europe’s problems, by Nina Siegal in The International New York Times, 8/06/2016
Europa tiene solución y la encontrará en la cultura →
ECF Director Katherine Watson attended the Pública 16 encounters in Madrid on 28-29 January 2016. She spoke with Peio H. Riaño from El Español about the role of culture as a solution to many of our European issues (in Spanish).
Read MoreIdea Camp 2015 - Media Coverage
- Idea Camp: del concepto al proyecto de impacto social, Youcoop.org, 7 September 2015
- Ciudad (y) escuela, Coordenadas Radio3, Radio Nacional de España (second half of the podcast, interviewing María G. Perulero from Platoniq/Goteo, and Mae Durant from Pez Estudio (one of the Idea Makers), 7 October 2015
- Monopoly for the people: three strange days at the urbanism 'idea camp', The Guardian, 29 September 2015
- De stad is van ons! Hoe jonge ideeënmakers de gemeenschap willen herontdekken, Tomas Vanneste, De Correspondent, 6 October 2015
- Idea camp i Botkyrka: ”En rörelse på stark tillväxt i hela världen”, DN.se, 15 October 2015
- Book of the Day: Build the City, P2P Foundation, 14 October 2015
- Michel Bauwens on the Commons and the City at the Idea Camp, P2P Foundation, 13 October 2015
- Video: Migrants and their communing, P2P Foundation, 10 October 2015
- Ett citat av sociologen Kenneth Gergen. Det är en förhoppning, ett påstående men på samma gång en fråga, Ylva Rancken-Lutz, 9 October 2015
- European Commoners and New Political Parties challenge Monoculture,Silke Helfrich, 29 September 2015