Thomas Diafas, one of the 2018 Courageous Citizens grantees, talks to us on the Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival.
Read MoreMedialab Prado hosting #RDgrantee of Idea Camp 2017
In a series of interviews with the 2017 R&D grantees of the Idea Camp, we talk to Paris Legakis, who is about to start his residency at Medialab Prado
Read MoreInstagram Takeover: Selen Tugrul
From 7 to 13 February 2016, STEP Beyond grantee Selen Tugrul is taking over our Instagram account.
Read MoreKreativiteten gror i krisens Grekland by Hugo Lindkvist
This article, Kreativiteten gror i krisens Grekland (Creativity grows in crisis Greece) by Hugo Lindkvist has been published on the Swedish daily news site, dn.se, mentioning the Athens Biennale and the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture.
Read MoreEmpowered by Culture: Examples from Greece by Rana Zincir Celal
Long time ECF advisor and friend Rana Zincir Celal was in Greece at the end of June for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation International Conference on Philanthropy and Sustainability in Athens and to visit the Thessaloniki Biennale. She shares her insights about these cities and their thriving efforts to include citizens into daily cultural life.
While the international media focuses on the tension and brinksmanship of the negotiations, I left Greece last week moved by the inspiring and committed leadership of its many civic leaders who are charting a course for the future, undeterred, responding to the fragility of the current situation in ingenious and inspiring ways.Read More
Partnership between the Municipality of Athens and Athens Bienniale
On 25 June 2015, ECF President HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands was in Athens to speak at the event announcing the partnership between the Municipality of Athens and 2015 ECF Princess Margriet Award Laureate Athens Bienniale. The event took place at the Municipality of Athens, where the Mayor of Athens Mr Yorgos Kaminis made the official announcement.
Read MoreFeatured People: Athens Biennale
The Athens Biennale is one of two ground-breaking cultural initiatives in Europe to be selected for the 2015 Princess Margriet Award for Culture. In the face of severe austerity measures that have left Greek society reeling, the Athens Biennale has demonstrated the power of self-organisation and building common ground through culture in the face of challenging political and economic circumstances. Read our feature length overview.
Read MoreFeatured People: 2015 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture Laureates Athens Biennale and Visual Culture Research Center
We are happy to announce the 2015 ECF Princess Margriet Award laureates are Athens Biennale from Athens and Visual Culture Research Center from Kiev. They have been chosen for their work building on the public sphere, creating sorely needed open space for artistic imagination. By choosing to honour these two laureates, ECF is sending a strong signal for the future of independent cultural initiatives in wider Europe that are showing us how transformative culture can be, even in the most challenging political and economic circumstances.
Read MoreA Cultural Component as an Integral Part of the EU’s Foreign Policy?
The goal of this survey has been to collect and examine documents on the external cooperation policies of the European Union and its MemberStates with third countries in the field of culture. This has been done in order to assess the degree to which EU Member States support the strengthening of the cultural components of the EU’s external relations and foreign policy.
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