VAHA [meaning OASIS in Turkish] will connect and enable up to 50 independent arts and culture spaces and organisations for public programming to shape 16 local hubs interconnected within an international solidarity network.
Open call to participation closes September 14.
Commons Sense
In the frame of the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) project, we partnered with the University of Antwerp, in cooperation with l’Asilo and Boekman Foundation, to organise a digital co-creation lab “Commons Sense: Let’s Create a Bottom-Up European Democracy”.
Read MoreCultural Relations Platform
We are proud to be members of the consortium implementing the Cultural Relations Platform (CRP) - an EU-funded project launched in April 2020, designed to support the European Union to engage in international cultural relations.
Read MoreUphold culture in the EU budget
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 19 June, we call on the Member States to:
Double the budget of Creative Europe to 2,6 billion euros, as the core programme for reinforcing European cultural cooperation. (#Double4Culture).
Make sure that the additional funds stemming from the Next Generation EU initiative, such as REACT-EU, reach cultural operators.
We are 65! Stories of Europe, a book about us and the world
In this publication, we navigate the history of the European Cultural Foundation in a variegated and multi-tonal way – looking for hidden and oblique links across time and political moments, finding the unexpected lines of thought that contributed to the full history of our foundation.
Read MoreBring Back Culture, Ms. President!
On September 23rd members from across the political spectrum of the European Parliament, including the Chair of the Culture Committee, Ms Sabine Verheyen, and over hundred representatives of arts, cultural and heritage organisations and networks from across Europe gathered at BOZAR in Brussels, to debate the place of arts, culture and cultural heritage in remit of the future European Commission.
Read MoreDutch 'Europe platform' sends letter to Minister
Prior to the European Council meeting of May 22-23 the newly founded Dutch ‘Europe platform’ sends a letter to the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science asking for support for EU cultural policies and more alignment between European and national cultural policies.
Read MoreSkills, competences and needs: Working in the cultural field in the Arab region
A study on the skills needed to working in the cultural field in the Arab region, and recommendations for skill development tools.
Read MoreCultural and Creative Sectors' Call to Boost Creative Europe
Dear Members of the European Parliament,
We are writing as a group of 59 organisations from across the cultural and creative sectors ahead of today's vote of the Budget committee on the next EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027.
We welcome the report's proposal to increase the Creative Europe budget to €2.8bn, and call on you to support this much needed boost to the only EU programme dedicated to cultural and creative sectors.
This ambition is shared by MEP Costa in her report on Creative Europe, as well as by MEP Grammatikakis in his report on a New European Agenda for Culture.
As it is now well established, culture and creativity are among Europe’s strongest assets. Their contribution to the social, economic and artistic development of Europe fully justifies the added value of an EU investment in culture.
But these sectors remain structurally underfinanced. As highlighted in the impact assessment accompanying the investEU proposal, the financing gap for creative SMEs and micro organisations across Europe is estimated to be somewhere between €8bn and €13bn.
At 0,16% of the MFF, the Creative Europe budget is by no means proportionate to these sectors' contribution, and the programme has very low success rates.
We hope we can count on you to support the proposed increased budget for Creative Europe.
Yours sincerely,
The undersigned organisations:
ACCR Europe (Réseau Européen des Centres culturels de rencontre)
AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen)
AER (Association of European Radios)
Circostrada (European Network Circus and Street Arts)
CEPI (European Coordination of Independent Producers)
CEPIC (Centre of the Picture Industry)
Culture Action Europe
EAS (European Association for Music in schools)
ECF (European Cultural Foundation)
Europavox
European Choral Association - Europa Cantat
ECCD (European Coalitions for Cultural Diversity)
ECCO (European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers' Organisations)
ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation)
ECSA (European Composer & Songwriter Alliance)
EFAITH (European Federation of Associations for Industrial and Technical Heritage)
EFFORTS (European Federation of Fortified Sites)
EHTTA (European Historic Thermal Towns Association)
EIBF (European and International Booksellers Federation)
EJN (Europe Jazz Network)
ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts)
EMC (European Music Council)
EMEE (European Music Exporters Exchange)
EMU (European Music School Union)
ENCATC (European Network on Cultural Management and Policy)
Europa Nostra, coordinator of the European Heritage Alliance 3.3
Eurosonic Noorderslag
Eurozine (European network of cultural journals and online magazine)
ERIH European Route of Industrial Heritage
ETC (European Theatre Convention)
EUYO (European Union Youth Orchestra)
EWC (European Writers' Council)
FEP (Federation of European Publishers)
FIA (International Federation of Actors)
FIAD (International Federation of Film Distributors' Associations)
FIM (Fédération Internationale des Musiciens)
FSE (Federation of Screenwriters in Europe)
GESAC (European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers)
IAMIC (International Association of Music Information Centres)
IAO (International Artist Organisation)
IFLA Europe (International Federation of Landscape Architects Europe)
IGCAT (International Institute for Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism)
IMMF (International Music Managers Forum)
IMPALA (Independent Music Companies Association)
IMPF (Independent Music Publishers International Forum)
INES (Innovation Network of European Showcases)
ISFE (Interactive Software Federation of Europe)
JMI (Jeunesses Musicales International)
Live DMA (European network for music venues and festivals)
Liveurope
NEMO (Network of European Museum Organisations)
On the Move (Cultural Mobility Information Network)
Pearle* (Live Performance Europe)
Res Artis (Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies)
Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network
SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe)
TEH (Trans Europe Halles)
UNIC (International Union of Cinemas)
UNI MEI (UNI global union - Media and Entertainment International)
Building the future on pathways to cultural diversity. Practises and projects from around the MENA region
The compilation “Building the Future” presents selected inspiring projects that had an impact on the cultural transformation in the MENA region in the period from 2011 to 2017. The publication is a joint co-production between long-standing like-minded partners working in and with the region. The aim of the compilation is to showcase the wealth of talent and initiatives beyond the MENA regional borders and share these with the international cultural community. Get inspired and connected!
Read MoreECF director Katherine Watson 'Cultural leader in residence'
Katherine Watson, director of ECF, has been appointed as the first ‘Cultural Leader in Residence’ at the University of Groningen. Watson will be the figurehead of a new two-year Research Master's degree programme in Cultural Leadership at the Faculty of Arts.
Katherine Watson did open the academic year for the Faculty of Arts on Tuesday 5 September 2017 by delivering the Arts Lecture. Previous speakers include Ronald Giphart, Femke Halsema, Wim Pijbes and Ramsey Nasr, who spoke about the importance of the Arts (language, art, literature, media, history, art history, archaeology and communication) in society.
Managing Diversity? Art and [The Art Of] Organisational Change
Managing Diversity? Art and [The Art Of] Organisational Change by ECF explores the complexity of managing diversity through essays and stories by practitioners in the arts and cultural field. Neither Here or There explores diversity through art - through the eye of Ahmet Polat who focuses on photographing diversity in society. This compilation of two books is a co-production of the ECF, Ahmet Polat (Fatush Productions) and publishing house Mets & Schilt Publishers, 2008. If you like to obtain a copy of this publication, please contact Lise Mathol, lmathol[@]eurocult.org