On 10 April 2014, in collaboration with De Balie, we organised a public debate about the EU and its future titled: “In the EU We (Mis)Trust: on the road to the European elections”. This debate was part of the New Pact for Europe project, that examines the challenges Europe is facing today, and the strategic choices that need to be made.
Read MoreEuropean Prospects: Exploring what it means to be European
European Prospects: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent is a collaborative project that uses photography and contemporary art to explore questions of identity across Europe. On the eve of the European Prospects book and web launch in Cardiff, we caught up with Polish photographer and project participant Michal Iwanowski at the Ffotogallery. Read the interview.
Read MoreDe Groene Rotterdammer: The State of Europe reviewed
As a prelude to the European elections in May 2014, the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) put Europe at the heart of its 43rd edition, which took place between 22 January and 2 February 2014. We are happy to share the publication De Groene Rotterdammer, featuring texts in Dutch and in English by Gianfranco Rosi, Peter Sloterdijk, Xiaolu Guo, Joost de Vries, Abdelkader Benali, Rutger Wolfson, Alexandra Zawia, Kees Vendrik.
Read MoreECF Princess Margriet Awards 2008-2014: An overview of past Award winners
The video and brochure highlight all ECF Princess Margriet Award laureates dating from the first award in 2008 to the fifth award in 2013.
Read MoreLanding AR 3101
This project was awarded a STEP Beyond Travel Grant in 2013.
Read MoreTrio
In 2011, ECF and Soros Foundation Moldova launched this two-year project in rural Moldova to improve conditions in small-scale local communities facing enormous challenges – growing poverty, high levels of youth unemployment, underdeveloped public services and social disintegration. The programme ran until December 2013.
Read MoreEuropean Neighbourhood programme
Read about ECF’s European Neighbourhood programme which has stimulated civil society working in culture to influence policy reform and societal development in the Balkans, Kaliningrad, Moldova, Turkey, the Ukraine and Arab-Mediterranean countries.
Read MoreECF Princess Margriet Award Guidelines 2015
ECF's Princess Margriet Award is presented to European artists and thinkers whose work brings new possibilities in the way citizens engage with Europe’s diverse cultural landscape. You can read more about the award and its selection procedure in the guidelines.
Read MoreCity Talks #1: Istanbul
In October 2013, we have organised our first City Talks at De Balie in Amsterdam. This event part of a series that will continue through our 60th Anniversary year in 2014, was focusing on the city of Istanbul. ECF Chair Görgün Taner, Director of İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı, gave us interesting insights about the Istanbul Biennial.
Read MoreInvisible Walls
One of the recent projects funded by Balkan Incentive Fund was Invisible Walls by ODA Theatre – a thought-provoking performance created by artists from Kosovo together with fellow artists from Canada/Austria, France, Macedonia and the UK.
Read MoreThe Dwarfing of Europe? event
Imagining Europe with De Groene Amsterdammer
Imagining Europe
In the frame of the Imagining Europe event that took place on 4–7 October 2012 at De Balie in Amsterdam, weekly magazine DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER in close editorial collaboration with ECF has published a special supplement including articles from Amitav Ghosh, Iryna Videnava, Erdal Balci, Philip Legrain and more...
