By bringing together artists, creators, and heritage experts in inclusive activities the foundation wants to help in making the city of Gjirokastra accessible. The project offers a rediscovery of traditional themes as inspiration and drive for young artists in the multicultural context of European identity.
Read MoreTabea Grzeszyk on Hostwriter winning the Google Impact Challenge
An interview with Tabea Grzeszyk - of Hostwriter - on the occassion of Hostwriter winning the German Google Impact Challenge.
Read MoreFeatured People: Rana Yazaji
In this conversation, we talk to Rana Yazaji (Syria), Managing Director of Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) – a key cultural player in the MENA region that facilitates the development of national cultural policy groups in more than ten Arab countries. We talk about her work and about the challenges she and her team face in these turbulent times for the region. Throughout the autumn, we highlight cultural policy research and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Through a series of insightful interviews, we introduce cultural policy researchers and activists who have contributed to the World CP –International Cultural Policy Database.
Read MoreLampedusa Mirrors: Journal of a Project (2014-15)
Lampedusa Mirrors is a theatre coproduction between Eclosion d’artistes (Tunis) and Teatro dell’Argine (Bologna) that was conceived in the framework of our Tandem Shaml. In 2015, young theatre makers from Tunisia and Italy developed a gripping performance which reflects on life at the island of Lampedusa as a symbolic site of the ongoing migration crisis. You can now read this publication journaling the project.
Read MoreFeatured People: CitizensLab Members
Our colleagues Alice Priori and Lisa Schulze at CitizensLab have prepared a series of Facebook posts presenting the new members of the CitizensLab network, which ECF is a partner of. We compiled all these short presentations in this featured people. We're also very happy to see that members from our own programmes like the Idea Camp and Tandem, have also been selected.
Read MoreVideo: Tandem Turkey Interim Meeting in Cluj
Tandem Turkey aims to establish long-term collaborations between cultural organisations from Turkey and the EU countries. In this video, you can see participants of Tandem Turkey 2015-16 at the Cluj meeting in February 2016, featuring Alice Fiona Tucker, Hüseyin Recepoğlu, Jeremy Pine, Mehtap von Stietencron, Naz Cuguoğlu, Susanne Ewerlöf and Çiçek Şadiye Tezer.
Read MoreTandem Community & Participation Open Call deadline extended →
Good news: the Tandem Community & Participation open call deadline has been extended to 2 March. This call for Cultural Managers is open to applicants based in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the UK. Apply now!
Read MoreWindows into Protest: a Tandem Project
Learn more about Windows into Protest, a project emerging from our Tandem network - our programme for cultural managers across the EU and beyond. It is a project in partnership with three countries where protest in many different forms has been taking place: Ukraine, Turkey and the UK.
Read MoreMEP Julie Ward’s Report on Intercultural Dialogue
We’re very happy to hear that MEP and Tandem alumna Julie Ward’s report on intercultural dialogue was adopted by the European Parliament on 19 January. The report makes concrete recommendations for action, including the increased use of culture in diplomacy and development policy, inclusive learning and active citizenship to build strong, confident and cohesive communities for the future.
Read MoreInstagram Takeover: Selen Tugrul
From 7 to 13 February 2016, STEP Beyond grantee Selen Tugrul is taking over our Instagram account.
Read More15 Years in the Neighbourhood - Ivan Krastev in conversation with Philipp Dietachmair
We take the book, Another Europe, as our starting point in a conversation with Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev, together with ECF Programme Manager Philipp Dietachmair, who has been running our neighborhood programmes for more than 10 years.
Another Europe: the Book
Since our beginnings in the 1950s, ECF has been pursuing the idea of a Europe that goes beyond historical, cultural and political borders and proposes new ways of doing things. The Europe ECF imagines extends well beyond the EU, embracing the countries that touch our borders to the east and to the south. These guiding principles run through the pages of our new publication Another Europe, which brings together a treasure trove of insights and experiences from partners and participants working with us in the European Neighbourhood over the past 15 years.
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